I wrote this tutorial on 10/30/2012

Tools and Supplies Needed

Template #111 by Simone
be sure to leave her a Thank You ♥

HERE

My avatar Template ♥

HERE

Tube of choice - Exclusive Club Tube at Pics for Design
By Zlata_M

do not use the same tube w/o the appropriate license to do so

You can purchase HERE

Font used - Jive

Open Simons Template #111 in psp Shift+D close out the original template

Delete the credit layer

Stand on the black double squares - copy and paste background of your choice I used the wave background from the tube resize the background as needed and position - duplicate and mirror merge down the background if you duplicated it crop the background image - click on the crop tool (R) Width 600 Height 215 click apply by pressing the check mark I am using psp version 9
so your tools may look different

delete black double squares when done placing the background

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer move to the right see mine for placement- crop as you did before - duplicate the tube set the blend mode to the copy to screen
add a drop shadow

Add a drop shadow of your choice to the glitter layer

Stand on the pink layer - copy and paste background of choice and crop as you did before copy and paste tube as a new layer and move to the left see mine - resize as needed - and crop as you did before duplicate tube
set blend mode mode to screen on the copy

Stand on the white frame layer and add a drop shadow of your choice

Stand on the black frame layer selections - select all - float - defloat layers - new raster layer - flood fill with color or gradient of choice using a color from your tube selections - select none - add noise if desired

To make your avatar using the selection tool draw a selection on your banner of what you would like for the avatar - edit - copy merged - paste as a new image

or you can use my avatar template and paste into there as well and do the same for the borders and crop like you did for the banner - add the credits and your name

copy merge the banner - paste as a new image and save as png do the same with the avatar - save your original work as psp file so you can make changes etc.

and you are done ! :)