This tutorial was written March 5, 2012. I used Corel X3, but it should work in other versions as well.

The supplies you need:
A tube of choice.
I used one of René Kunerts latest releases called Lucky Lady. She was selling HERE at the time of writing this tutorial. 
You need a license to be able to use her work.

If you want to animate, you will also need an animation. I'm using "SimoneAni57-Clovers" from Scrappy Bit of Fun. She has lots of cool animations.

Plugins:
ColorRave - Atmosperizer 1.1
Tramages - Tow The Line
Eye Candy 5 Impact - Perspective Shadow (Optional)

Font of choice. I used "Patrick Regular"

*The link for the matching snags can be found at the bottom of the tutorial*

Lets get started...
The animations comes in gif which is the preview and in PSD files.  Open up the PSD file in your PSP.  

Go to Image - Canvas size and change it with these settings:

Duplicat and mirror EACH layer. Make sure that the corresponding layer/mirrored layer are right under each other, like this:

(only showing the first few layers here)

Merge each "copy of Frame" layer down to the previous layer so that each mirrored layer merges with the corresponding layer. (Copy of Frame 1 is merged down to Frame 1 and so on)
It's very important that you don't mess up here, or the animation wont look good.

If you have another way you want to do this, feel free to do so, like adding the animation in Animation Shop instead. I don't use AS for animation, so I do it like I have explained here.

Anyway, on with our work :)
At this point, I decided to hide all the layers except the bottom one.

Add a new layer and send it to the bottom.
Floodfill this layer with a color. It doesn't really matter what colour you use, but I used a colour from the tube.

Add ColorRave - Atmosperizer 1.1 with these settings:

Or play with the setting to get the colours you want to match your tube.
You can also play with the brightness and contrast ratio under Adjust - Brightness and Contrast - Brightness/Contrast. I changed the brightness to -16 and contrast to 23.

Still on the bottom layer, add Tramages - Tow The Line at default settings.
Add a close up of your tube. Change the layer properties to Soft Light, or another one of your choice. This depends on the tube really and your liking.

(Opptional: Add your tube and place on the opposite side of the close up. Change the  opacity to 50%. You can also change the layer properties if you like.)

Activate the top layer and paste your tube again. Position it and add a drop shadow. As usual, I used Eye Candy 5 - Perspective Shadow with the blurry preset (my favourite).

Crop your creation with Merged Opaque.

Add a new layer and floodfill with black or a dark colour from your tube. Select all and contract the selection by 2. Hit delete and deselect. Add a drop shadow: 0,0,100,20, black.

Add your name and copyright.

Animate as usual.

AVATAR:

Duplicate your tag and delete all the layers except the bottom layer and the animation. Crop to 150x150px and add a new layer. Floodfill with the same dark colour you used for your tag and use the same contract settings as you did earlier. Add the same drop shadow to the frame and add your initial.
You can either save it as a jpg or you can animate it like you did with your tag.

I also made some matching snags which you can grab HERE.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs Lithy

This tutorial was written February 29, 2012. I used Corel X3, but it should work in other versions as well.

The supplies you need:
A tube of choice.
I used a tube called Explosion from RB White. He was with PTE at the time of writing this tutorial, and this tube will be/was released on March 1st.


Plugins:
VM Experimental - Needles and Pins
Eye Candy 5 Impact - Perspective Shadow (Optional)

Font of choice. I used "Gunplay"

Open a new image 650x250.Make a gradient with 2 contrasting colors from your tube, with these settings:

and floodfill your layer.
Duplicat this layer. Mirror the bottom layer and on the duplicate, add VM Experimental with 
Needles and Pins. These are the settings I used, but you are free to experiment:

Go to Effect - Edge Effect- Enhance. Lower the opacity to about 50%. 
Duplicate this layer and rotate it 90% to the right. Move this layer to the right side of the tag.
Add a new layer and draw a rectangle from top to bottom. Convert to raster and duplicate. Move the rectangles a bit so they are side by side. See my tag for reference. Merge down. 


Still on the rectangle layer, select all, float and defloat. Hide this layer so you see what you do.
Go to the bottom needles and pins layer and hit delete. Move this layer one up. Go to the bottom needles and pins layer (the one you rotated) and promote selection to layer. Deselect.


Activate your top layer and add a close up of your tube and place on left side. Change the layer properties of the close up to Screen or one to your liking. 


Add your tube and add a blurry drop shadow (I used Eye Candy 5 - Perspective Shadow with the blurry preset).Crop your tag.Add a new layer and floodfill with black. Select All and contract selection by 1. Delete and deselect. Add your name and copyright. Save as jpg.

AVATAR
Duplicate your tag and remove all the layers except bottom layer and all the needles and pins layers. Crop your tag to 150x150 px. Add a new layer and floodfill with black. Select all and contract the selection by 1. Hit detele and deselect. Add your initial and save as jpg.

I also made a few snags which you can find HEREhttps://1drv.ms/f/s!AqEDBKVQMiMciSwL4wmHMDxhm6GC.

Thanks for looking!

This tutorial was written February 20, 2012. I used Corel X3, but it should work in other versions as well.

The supplies you need:
A tube of choice.
I have used an exclusive tube from Zebrush at Pics For Design. You have to be in PFD's exclusive club to purchase this. At least it was like this at the time of writing this tutorial.
For the second example at the bottom of the tutorial I used a tube from Francisco Rivera. You need a written permission to be able to use his art. 

Plugins:
Mura Meister - Copies
Xero - Fritillary
Eye Candy 5 - Extrude (Optional) (Other option mentioned)
Eye Candy 5 Impact - Perspective Shadow (Optional)

Font of choice. I used "Menuet Script".

Open a new image 650x250 and floodfill with white.
Make a gradient with a light and medium dark colour from your tube:

Make a new layer and floodfill with the gradient.
Duplicate this layer and on the bottom gradient layer, add Xero Fritillary at default  settings. Change the opacity to about 50% on this layer. Go to Effects - Edge Effects and add Edge Enhance.
Change the layer properties to multiply on the top layer.

Change your background colour the medium dark colour from your tube.
Use your rectangle tool and draw out a small square. 
Rotate the square with these settings: 

Center in canvas and convert to Raster.
Add Mura Meister Copies with these settings: 

With your selection tool, remove enough columns of squares on each side so that you only got the 3 centre ones left. See my tag for reference.
Go to Eye Candy 5 Extrude and add these settings to the rectangle layer: 

If you don't have Extrude you can duplicate the rectangle layer, change the colour  to white on the bottom rectangle layer and move it a little bit to the left. You will get a similar effect then. Add a drop 
shadow of choice. I used  2,2,60,8, Black on the white rectangles.

Add your tube and place it on the right side. Move it below the rectangles and change the layer properties to Multiply, or another one. Which ever works best for your tube. Change the opacity to 70%.
Activate your top layer and paste a close up of your tube on the left side and add a blurry drop shadow. I used Eye Candy - Impact - Perspective Shadow with the blurry preset.

Crop your tag.
Add a new layer and floodfill with a dark colour from your tube. Select all and contract selection by 1. Click delete and deselect.
Add your name. I used the Extrude with the same settings as earlier and added a drop shadow to it.

Add your copyright and save the tag as jpeg if you don't want to animate.

ANIMATION:
Now you got 2 options, depending on if you used Extrude on the rectangles or not:

1.If you used Extrude:
With your magic wand, make it so that all dark rectangles are selected. Promote this selection to layer and duplicate it twice, so that you have 3 layers in total.

2. If you didn't use Extrude on the rectangles:
Duplicate the dark rectangle layer so you have 3 in total.

Either way, on the top layer, add dsb flux - Bright Noise with 28 as intensity and on mix.
For the middle layer, add the same setting but click on Mix once. Do the same for the bottom rectangle layer but click Mix again.

Animate as usual and save as gif.

AVATAR:
In PSP, duplicate your tag and remove the tube layers, © layer, name and border.
Crop it to 150x150.
Add a new layer and floodfill with your dark colour. Select all, contract selection by 1 and click delete. Deselect.
Add your initial with the same font you used earlier.
If you want to, you can animate this like you did with the tag and save as gif.
And here is another sample:

This tutorial was written February 8, 2012 and I used Corel X3, but it should work in other versions as well.

The supplies you need:
A tube of choice.
I used an awesome tube from Ed Mironiuk. He was with CDO at the time this tutorial was written.

Plugins:
Mura Meister - Copies
Andrew Filter 18 - Before The Dawn
Neology Filter Pack - TV Mania
Eye Candy 5 Impact - Perspective Shadow (Optional)
Eye Candy 5 -  Extrude (Optional)

Font of choice. I used "Kabel Book BT".Lets get started!Open a new image 600x250.
Floodfill with a colour from your tube.

Set the background colour to a contrasting colour. 
Choose your eclipse tool (where you find preset shapes) and set it to circle. Draw a small circle on your tag. See my example for size. Center on canvas and convert to raster.
Add Mura Meister Copies with these settings:

Duplicate the circle layer. On the bottom layer, go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur. Set it to 3.
On the top layer add this drop shadow: 

Go to your bottom layer and duplicate it twice. On the middle layer, add "Before The Dawn" with default settings. Change the layer properties to Luminance(L)

On the next layer, add "TV Mania" with these settings: 

Set the opacity of this layer to 60%.

Back on the top layer,add your tube and place where you like. Add a blurry drop shadow. I used Eye Candy 5, Perspective Shadow with the blurry setting.

Crop your tag.

With your Rectangle Tool active, with line width 2 to 4, draw a rectangle from top to bottom. See my tag for reference. Convert to Raster.
With your magic wand, click inside the rectangle and expand the selection by 1.
Add a new layer under the rectangle and floodfill with the same colour that you used for your background.
Add TV Mania with the same settings like before, but untick H/V Toggle.

Add a drop shadow to the rectangle frame layer: 

Add  a new layer and floodfill with a contrasting colour. Go to Selections - Select All - Modify - Contract with 2 pixels. Press Delete. Deselect.
Add the same drop shadow you did on the rectangle frame.

Add your name.
I used Eye Candy 5 Impact - Extrude with these settings: 

I used a contrasting colour for the effect on the name. Add a drop shadow.
Add your copyright and save it.

AVATAR:

Click Shift D on your tag to duplicate it. Remove the tube layer. and crop to 150x150.
Add the same 2 pixel selection border and drop shadow, like you did on your siggie/banner.
Add your initials and save.
Here is an example with the avatar showing:

This one is for any of my friends out there that is called Fiona ;))


Thanks for looking!

You can see what the forum set looks like at the bottom here. 

This tutorial was written on February 2nd 2012.
Supplies needed:
I used a tube called Lily from Unholy Vault Designs. She was with PTE when this tutorial was written. This gorgeous tube will be released on Friday February 3rd.

Plugins:
Mura Meister Copies
DSB Flux - Bright Noise
Eye Candy 5 - Perspective Shadow

To animate:
Animation Shop or Photoshop, which ever you normally use.

A font of choice. I used "CM Old Western".


Open up a new image 600x600
Add your tube and use Mura Meister Copies - Wallpaper Rotate at default settings. Make sure the whole canvas is covered (duplicate, flip/mirror if you have to).
Go to Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur with these settings:

Add Effect - Edge Effect - Enhance

Change your background colour to a contrasting colour and activate the rectangle tool. Add a rectangle that goes across the entire canvas. Center it in canvas. Duplicate the line twice and move the lines so it looks like this: 

Merge those 3 lines together and use image free rotate left with 45 degrees. Use your pick tool and stretch the rectangle so it goes outside the canvas, like this: 

Convert to raster.
Go to Effect - Distortion Effects - Wave and use these settings:

Duplicate this layer so you have 3 layers in total. Add DSB Flux - Bright Noise, intensity 34 and on Mix. Repeate this for the other 2 white wave layers, but click on Mix once for each layer.
On the top wave layer, select all, float and defloat. Add a new layer and floodfill with a contrasting color. I used black. Move this layer below the wave layers and deselect. Move the black waves a little bit down and to the right. See my sample for placement.
Add a drop shadow on all the wave layers: 0,0,100,8

Higlight the bottom layer and paste a close up of your tube, and move it to the top left.
Remove any part of the tube that goes below the white waves.
Change the settings on the tube layer to Luminance (or any other suitable blend mode) and opacity to 50%. Merge down.
Duplicate the bottom layer and add VM Toolbox - Radial Mosaic at default settings. change the opacity to about 30% or what ever looks best.

Duplicate your tag by clicking Shift and D. Set this aside for now because we'll use this for the forum set siggie.
Back on your original tag, crop it to 600 wide and 550 high (or smaller), using the crop tool. (I did this height because of the tube I was using.
Add your tube and place it on the right side of the tag. Add a blurry drop shadow.I used Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Perspective Shadow with the Blurry setting.

Add a new layer and floodfill with one of your contrasting colors. I used black. Select all, contract by 5 and click Delete.Selection Invert and contract by 1 and floodfill the area inside the selection with your other contrasting color. I used white. Deselect and add a drop shadow: 0,0,100,8.

Add your name and copyright to the tag.

SIGGIE/BANNER:
Over to the one you duplicated earlier.
Make a custom selection like this:

 Go to Image and choose Crop to Selection.
Add your tube and place it on the right side. Add the same blurry drop shadow as you did earlier.
Add the same border you did on the tag (the one with 2 contrasting colours) and the same drop shadow; 0,0,100,8

Add your name and copyright.

AVATAR:
Click shift D and remove the tube layer. Crop to 150x150 and add the same border and drop shadow as you did with the other 2.
Add your initial and copyright. (You don't need to add the copyright if you didn't use a tube for the the background)

Animate all 3 as usual.And here is what the forum set looks like:

I also made some snags which you can grab HERE. 

This was written on January 29 2012 and is the very first tutorial I have posted online.This tutorial is written using Corel X3, but it can also be done in other versions. This tutorial is my own creation and any resemblence to any other tutorial, is purely conicidental. 

The supplies you need:
A tube of choice
I used a gorgeous tube from Barbara Jensen. She is an independent artist, and you can buy her tubes HERE.

You need these plugins:
Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation
Alens Skin Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Perspective Shadow
Mura Meister - Copies

A font of choice. I used "Jeffriana"

Open a new image 600x250. Pick 2 colours from the tube you are using and make a gradient like this:

and floodfill with the gradient.
Duplicate the layer and on the duplicate, go to Effects - Texture - Mosaic Antique,with these settings:

Image - Flip
Add a new raster layer and Make a custom selection like this: 

Floodfill with any color (we will delete this layer in a sec)
Select none.

Go to Effects Mura Meister Copies and add these settings: 

Select All - Float - Defloat.
Go to the layer below and click Delete.
Select None and delete the top layer, or hide it. It doesn't really matter.

Add dropshadow to the "bars", using these settings: 

Add your tube and place it to the left. Add a blurry drop shadow. I used Eyecandy 5 Impact - Perspective Shadow with the Blurry preset.

Crop your creation with Merge Opaque:

Add a new layer and floodfill with black or another matching colour, and make sure this is the top layer.
Select All - Contract Selection by 2 and click delete.
Deselect.
Add the same dropshadow as you did with the layers with the bars.

And your name and the same drop shadow as earlier.
Don't forget to use a pixel font and add your license and copyright.

ANIMATION:Now, to animate the forum set siggie...

Duplicate the bottom layer so that you have a total of 3 layers.
On the bottom layer, add Xenofex 2 Constellation with these settings:

Repeat Consteallation on the other 2 layers but hit Random Seen once for each layer.

Animate as usual.

AVATAR:
Hold Shift and press D to duplicate the tag. Delete all layers exept the bottom layer and the layer with the bars.
Crop to 150x150
Add a 2 px selection border like you did earlier (you know, the black thin frame) Don't forget to add the same drop shadow as well.
Add your initial, using the same font as earlier and save as jpg (or whatever else you fancy)Also, add the same drop shadow as you used earlier.

Here is another sample, using a freebie tube from Alehandra Vahnek from Pics For Design.