PI Version: 12 (but you can use earlier, and newer versions too)
Level: Intermediate
Featured tools: Transform Tool, Pick Tool
Additional filters: Xero/Soft Mood (filter set 2)
Additional files: 3 tubes, 1 mask, 1 fill, and 1 background texture.
You'll get the material in the zip-file.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  
Supplies: One tube is from lamanouche, the original picture is from Sergei Sogokon 
one is from Kat, aka Namon's Angel, and the last one is from Kat  - thanks to all of you for your wonderful work! 
The mask is from PI 12 (it's in the zip-file, so everybody can remake the tutorial) , the fill from the internet, 
and the background texture from a site called tbe.through-the-rain, but it obviously doesn't exist anymore.
You are allowed to download the material here and use it for your private use, 
but you are not allowed to change the name of the tubes/scrap element/mask/background/object or text-file,
delete the watermark, neither offer them for sale or download. 
The copyright © belongs ALWAYS to the original artist/designer!
No copyright infringement is intended.

Remember to save often!

Before we start, you should open the masks, and store them into your Easy Palette. 
In case you need to freshen up your memory on how to save a mask into the EP - you can take a look at one of my other tutorials,
  where I explain a little bit more about how to use a mask in PI. You'll find the tutorial here.
Important - in my tutorials my masks fit the chosen background/object ... 
you achieve this by right clicking any mask inside the original category Mask Library in your Easy Palette. 
Now you choose the option Fit Mask. 

And you should also install the texture ... canvas_coarse ... into your PI Texture Filter. (If you need help, take a look here.)

Very important: Do NOT merge the pictures before I tell you to do so! 

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Open the background texture ... Leomo_19 ... and make 2 duplicates (Ctrl+D). 
Close the original texture, and minimize one of the duplicates. 

Open the tube ... Kat_0640 ..., copy (Ctrl+C) the tube, and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy of the tube on the texture, which we kept open.
Right click the tube on the texture/Properties/ Position & Size, 
and use these settings: Left: 40 and Top: - 61.
Click OK and keep the tube activated. 

Choose the Pick Tool and change the Transparency of the tube to 22.
Keep the tube activated, and go to Effect/Xero/Soft Mood and use the default settings.
Deselect the tube (Enter).



Open the tube ... KAT_misted vintageart ..., copy the tube, and paste the copy of the tube on our main picture.
Choose the Transform Tool and use the command Flip Horizontally.
Right click the tube on the main picture/Properties/Position & Size/Size, and resize the tube.
Make sure the box "Keep aspect ratio" is ticked, and change the Width to 423. 
Now we can change the position of the tube to: Left: 450 / Top: 14.
Click OK and deselect the tube (Enter).



Open the tube ... Peach_Life ..., copy the tube, and paste the copy of the tube on our main picture.
Choose the Transform Tool and use the command Flip Horizontally.
Right click the tube on the main picture/Properties/Position & Size/Size, and resize the tube.
Make sure the box "Keep aspect ratio" is ticked, and change the Width to 653,
 and afterwards change the position to:  Left: - 35 / Top: 165.
Keep the tube activated.

Go to Edit/Fade Out and use these settings:
Fill type: 4.altern. + Fill color: Two-color: 50% - 100%.
Click OK, choose the Pick Tool and change the Transparency of the tube to 15.
Keep the tube activated.

Go to Effect/Xero/Soft Mood and use these settings:
12/50/50/50 + 10/0.
Click OK and deselect the tube (Enter).



Open your Easy Palette/Libraries and double-click the mask ... P01 ..., 
which you've downloaded, unzipped and stored into the EP - 
or if you work with PI 12/PI X3 you can find the mask in the EP under Mask/Paint. 

Go to Effect/Fills and Textures/Texture Filter/Embossed, 
click the little icon for the Texture image and choose Select Texture. 
Find the texture ... canvas_coarse.jpg ... which you've downloaded and installed into the Texture Filter.
Use these settings: 50/20/50/0 + Direction: 45.
Click OK/Apply Current Frame Effect to Image and keep the mask activated.
Right click/Select All Objects, right click/Merge as Single Object.



Maximize the second duplicate of the background texture, go to Adjust/Resize and change the Width to 110 Percent. 
The new image will now be 880 x 660 pixels.
Click OK.
From now on, this image will be our main image!

Photo/Blur/Gaussian Blur and use the default setting (middle preview thumbnail on the open window). 
If you click Options this would be Radius: 5.
Click OK.

Activate our  "Blend-object", copy it and paste it on our main picture.
Right click the "Blend-object" on the main picture/ Properties/Position & size and set the position to:
Left: 1 / Top: - 38.
Keep the "Blend-object" activated.

Right click the "Blend-object" on the main picture/Shadow, and use these settings:
Black + 3.altern. + 5/5/50/100/7.
Click OK and deselect the "Blend-object" (Enter).

Add some text as you wish, and Merge All. 



Right click/All, right click/Border, and use these settings:
Border width: 2 Pixels, Direction: Inward, Shape: Box and Anti-aliasing.
Click OK and keep the border selected. 

Go to Edit/Gradient and use these settings:
Fill type: 2.altern. + Fill color: Two-color: 83/70/13 - 100/25/8.  
Click OK, deselect the border (spacebar), and your blend is finished. :))

If you need any help with this tutorial - or want to make suggestions to improve it -
please email me!