You will need a tube of your choice

Silver Beads here

This tutorial is written in PSP 9

My Gradient

Open a new transparent canvas 500 x 500

Flood fill with my silver gradient which can be used from your patterns in your material palette
 angle 0-scale 250

Selections-select all-selections modify-select selections border-check- inside and border width 20

In your patterns box alter the silver to angle 50 and size 30 and flood fill the selected border with the silver gradient .

Select none.

Click on preset shapes tool

Now change the silver so that it is in the background box of your layer palette and set the foreground to null.

With Preset shape tool on rectangle and vector checked- draw a rectangle about two thirds down the left hand side of your canvas and just less than half way across and inside your border-covert to  raster layer

Effects-artistic effects-topography-default setting .

Duplicate this layer and arrange the copy to the right hand side and below the original

On the copy -effects texture-weave-default setting.

Reduce the opacity of the rectangle layers to 30

When you are happy with how they are arranged-layers merge visible

Copy and paste the beads as a new layer

On the tube -adjust-hue and saturation-colorize-both settings on 0 -image resize- 85

Then copy and paste your tube as a new layer

Layer duplicate then reduce the size of this duplicate layer to 85 %. Place to the left of the tube and then reduce the opacity of this layer to 30-layers arrange-move down

When you are happy

Layers merge

Resize as you wish then add a new layer and any text-watermark and artists information that is required.

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

written by Chrissie 2005