This tutorial was written by me on May 19th, 2012 and is my own creation.

Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.

PSP Version used: PSP9, but should work in other versions.

This tutorial assumes you have a good working knowledge of PSP.

Supplies:

Tube of choice. I am using the work of Kiwifire Store, a PTU artist with The PSP Project. You must purchase his work and obtain a license to use his work. You can find his tubes here. 

Kit is PTU kit by Purple's Kreationz called Black'd Emo Girl. You can find the kit here. 

Template124-Leah by Amy & Leah's Gimptastic Tuts. You can download it from their blog here. 

BigMask-16 by VixPSP. You can find it here. 

Font of choice.

Filters:

Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow

Mura Meister Copies

Ok lets get started!

Open your template and mask. Mimize mask. On your template, delete the credits & wa 2 back layers.

Image, canvas size set to 600 x 600 px.

Open paper PK-BEG-P20. Copy and paste as a new layer just above the background layer. Apply your mask, merge group.

Open element PK-BEG-WIRE1. Resize by 120%. Sharpen. Copy and paste as a new layer.

Merge the two triangle layers together and move above the circle 2 and circle 3 layers. Merge the circle 2 and circle 3 layers together. Select all, float, defloat. Open paper PK-BEG-P8. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete on your keyboard. Delete the original merged circle layer.

On the merged triangle layer, select all, float, defloat. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with #ededed. Deselect and delete the original merged triangle layer.

Effects, texture effects, blinds using the following settings: 5, 11, black, horizontal and light from left/top both checked.

On the rect layer, select all, float, defloat. Open paper PK-BEG-P4. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete on your keyboard. Deselect and delete the original layer. Back to the paper we just added.

EyeCandy 4000 Gradient Glow. On the basic tab, set the glow width to 3.00. Under the color tab, select the Fat preset. Click ok.

Open element PK-BEG-STUDS. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place towards the top of the paper we just added. See my tag for reference.

Open your tube. Copy and paste as a new layer above your Circle 1 layer.

Mura Meister Copies, Wallpaper Rotate, default settings. Adjust, blur, motion blur. Angle 225.00, Strength 100. Repeat this step twice, sharpen.

On your circle 1 layer, select all, float, defloat. On the mura meister layer, selections, invert. Delete the original layer. Duplicate the mura meister layer, image, mirror. Make sure that these two layers are lined up together. Set the duplicate to overlay. Merge these two layers together. Colorize to 0, 0 (greyscale).

Open your tube again. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move to the left side of the circle. Image, mirror. Merge these two layers together. On the new circle layer, select all, float, defloat. Press delete on your keyboard.

Duplicate the tube layer. Adjust, blur, gaussian blur 3.00. Set the blend mode to screen, opacity 60. On the original tube layer, set the blend mode to luminance (L), opacity 60.

Open element PK-BEG-BANNER. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move this layer so it looks as though it's hanging off the rect layer. See my tag for reference.

Open element PK-BEG-SOCK. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the left side of your tag. See mine for reference.

Open element PK-BEG-STARS. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place in the upper right corner.

Open element PK-BEG-RIBBONFLOWER. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer and place in the upper left corner of the circle. See my tag for reference.

Open element PK-BEG-SPARKLES2. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move so it is across the tubes. See my tag for reference.

Open your tube. Resize if necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer. Duplicate, blur, gaussian blur with the same settings as before. Set the blend mode to screen. On the original, colorize with the same settings as before.

Open element PK-BEG-CAKE. Resize by 75%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom right of your tag.

Merge the wordart layers together. EC Gradient Glow with the same settings as before.

Add your copyrights, license info, and your name.

Add a drop shadow of choice to any layers of your choice.

Merge visible and save as a PNG or JPG. 

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.