Mask from a tube

This was written in PSP 9. Your 'mask from image' may be located somewhere else in other versions of PSP.

You will need a tube of your choice in bold colours or mine is here

I made mine from flower photographs from our garden but played around with the colours and various other effects.

Open a canvas about 500 x 500 but make sure it is similar in shape to your tube-if you use a tube that is higher than it is wide then make your canvas higher rather than wider. If you don't your mask will be distorted.

Flood fill the canvas with a colour gradient or pattern of your choice.

**Layers-New Mask layer-from Image--look for the name of your tube-click on source luminance and make sure invert mask is unchecked. Click ok.

Right click on the bottom layer

 of this group in your layer palette-merge -merge group**

Add a new layer and flood fill it with another colour from your tube

Repeat from ** to **

Now resize the top group layer only by 85%

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer and add a default drop shadow

Arrange the layers as you wish

Layers merge visible

Add a new layer for any text and watermark.

Layers merge visible again.

Resize as you wish then add artists information if it is required.

Edit-copy-edit paste as new image- to crop off excess canvas

Save as a jpg ready to post.

That's the tutorial finished I hope you enjoyed doing it.

written by

Chrissie March 14th 2005