ArtAttack

 

For this tutorial you will need:
A tube of choice I am using the art of Eugene Rzhevskii, 

to use this tube you will need to purchase it from PicForDesign Here

Fonts of choice I used Pixette & ChildishKid Here & Here

Texture of choice

Filters Used

Penta color dot
Eyecandy 400 (Optional)

Open a new canvas Width 675 height 275, Choose 2 colours from your tube foreground & background, select the foreground-Background gradient, Linear, Angle 45 repeats none, flood fill the canvas.

Copy & Paste your chosen tube as a new layer, duplicate a few times, arrange across your canvas as shown below.

Copy and paste your texture of choice arrange, colourise, resize to your liking, change the blend mode of this layer to screen or whatever looks best.

Select the crop tool Width 675 Height 275, merge opaque, apply, Merge, Merge visible

Apply color dot default setting.

Select the rectangle tool, Line width 1, line style Dot, change leave the foreground colour set to the gradient, background null, draw out a rectangle as shown in the screen shot below, right click on the layer in the layer palette, convert to raster, Duplicate the layer, go to image, resize & resize by 90%, image, mirror, 

With the merged layer active, activate the selection tool Rectangle, feather 0, draw out the first dotted rectangle (I had to zoom in for this) Right click on the merged layer & promote layer to selection, change the blend mode of this layer to Burn, selections select none.

Repeat these steps with the inner dotted rectangle but change the blend mode of the promoted layer to overlay.

Select a pixel font. I used Pixette Size 6 Anti-alias off, Type whatever you want then right click convert to raster layer. place in the gap at the top between the dotted lines. see my tag for reference

Duplicate this layer and move below between the bottom lines.

Copy & paste your tube as a new layer, resize and arrange to your liking. duplicate the tube layer, on the duplicate layergo to adjust, blur, avaerage set to 5 & apply, now change the blend mode of this layer to screen or whichever mode you prefer,on the bottom tube layer, add a drop shadow.

Add a new layer on top flood fill with one of the colours from your gradient, go to selkections, select all, selections modify, contact by 4 hit enter then delete, selections, select none

Add another raster layer, floodfill with the other colour from your gradient, repeat the above steps by contract by 2

Add your name & copy right info. You are done!