1. Open your tube and choose two colors, one light, one dark, from it.
    

2. Make a gradient with it, with the settings:
   Angle - 90;
   Repeats - 1
   Invert - checked.
   
    

3. Open a new image of 400x400 pixels and fill with
   the gradient.
    

4. Adjust -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur ->Radius 50
    

5. Effects -> Filters -> IC Net Software's Filter's Unlimited 2.0:
   Choose Paper Textures -> Canvas, Fine:
   Intensity -30 ( top setting )
   Lightness - 87
   
   
    

6. Layers -> New Raster layer. Change your colors around to have
   the dark color as foreground color now.
    

7. Go to the Tools Palette, choose the Airbrush and look for
   the ATV 7-brush. Change the size to 400 and paste it onto
   the canvas.
   
   
    

8. Change the opacity of this layer to 80% on the layer palette
   or choose what looks best in the colors you used.
    

9. Layers -> Merge - Merge All.
    

10. Edit -> Copy. Edit -> Paste as New Image. Minimize this image
    since we are going to use it as background later.
     

11. Open the psp-droom tube template. You can colorize it if
    you want to. Adjust -> Hue and Saturation -> Colorize.
     

12. Edit - Copy. Open you canvas and Edit -> Paste as New Layer onto the canvas.
     

13. Change the Blende Mode of this layer to "Hard Light", and
    the opacity to 50 % on the Layers palette.
    
    
     

14. Activate the Font tool and find the Bickley Script Font.
     

15. The dark color must be the foreground and the light color the
    background color.
     

16. Layers -> New Raster layer
    
    
    Change the font size to 400;
    Stroke width - 1;
    and type one letter. I chose the letter "T".
     

17. Effects -> 3D Effects - Drop Shadow, with these settings:
    Vertical and Horizontal - 2;
    Opacity - 55
    Blur - 37.5
    Color - Black
    
    
    Arrange the letter as you prefer it.
     

18. Activate your tube and reduce the size to fit the canvas. Edit -> Copy. Edit -> Paste as New Layer onto the canvas. Drag it where it looks the best to you.
     

19. Effects -> 3D Effects -> Drop Shadow, the same as in Step 17.
     

20. If there is some room left on the canvas you can add some more
    text if you like.
     

21. I have written my name in the same font - size 72.Remember to
    write it on a new layer so that you can move it around.
     

22. Effects -> 3D Effect - Drop Shadow, with all the settings on 1, except for the opacity on 55.
     

23. If everything is looking okay to you, you can merge the layers now. Layers -> Merge -> Merge All.
     

24. Image -> Add Borders , 4 pixels in a color NOT in your canvas.
    Select with your Magic Wand and fill with your dark color.
     

25. Effects -> Filters -> NVR Border Mania -> Frame 2, with the top two settings on 10.
    
    
     

26. Reduce the size of your image to 350 pixels in height.
    Adjust-> Sharpen!
    
     

Your image is finished. We can make the background now.

BACKGROUND

1. Open a new image 1024x450 pixels and fill with the gradient
   with the same settings as in step 2 above.
    

2. Layers -> New Raster layer.
    

3. Selections - Select All.
    

4. Now open the image which you have minimized in step 10.
    

5. Edit Copy. And Edit -> Paste into the selection on the canvas.
    

6. Selections -> Select None.
    

7. Change the opacity of this layer to 50% in the Layer Palette.
    

8. Open the framed-image which you have just made. Edit -> Copy.
   Go to the background canvas.
   Edit -> Paste as New Layer. Position it where you like it.
    

9. Layers -> Merge -> Merge All.
    

You are finished !