PI Version: 12 (but you can use earlier, and newer versions too)
Level: Intermediate
Featured tools: Transform Tool, Pick Tool, Eraser
Additional filters: dsb flux
Additional files: 4 tubes, 1 mask and 1 gold fill.
You'll get the material in the zip-file.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  
Supplies: All tubes and the gold fill are from the internet. 
The mask is from Ylvas Design (I've changed the mask a little bit to fit the need of this tutorial -
and I've renamed the changed mask, so there wouldn't be "name crash" with Ylvas original mask.).
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/mask/ or gold fill,
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 mask, and store it 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. 


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

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New Image, Size: 600 x 400 Pixels, Color: White. 

Open the tube ... mds3384Ballett ..., copy (Ctrl+C) the tube, and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy of the tube on our white image.
Right click the tube on the main picture/Properties/Position & Size/Size, and resize the tube.
Untick the box "Keep aspect ratio", and change the Width to 599 and the Height to 405. 
Now we can change the position of the tube to: Left: 1 / Top: 42
Click OK and Merge All.



Effect/dsb flux/Blast, and use these settings:
Direction: Upwards + Blast Amount: Percentage: 70.
Click OK. 
Go to Photo/Blur/Gaussian Blur/Options, and change the Radius to 3.



Open your Easy Palette/Libraries and double-click the mask ... ymask62-ik-03 ..., 
which you've downloaded, unzipped and stored into the EP. 

Go to Edit/Fill/Color and fill the mask with the Color: 10/27/35.
Deselect the mask (spacebar).



Go to Adjust/Expand Canvas and untick the box "Expand sides equally". 
Change the Expand color to 10/27/35, and expand:
Top: 150 / Left: 100 / Right: 100 / Bottom: 150. 
Click OK.



Open the tube ... BAL-S2007-05 ..., 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 214. 
Now we can change the position of the tube to: Left: 477 / Top: 172.
Click OK and keep the tube activated.

Choose the Pick Tool and change the Transparency of the tube to 26.
Keep the tube activated.

This is a "Misted" tube, and you'll see that part of the tube are outside of our mask frame ... 
so we have to use the eraser to clean these parts.

Choose the eraser, Square, Size: 50, Transparency: 0 and Soft edge: 0.
Now clean around the bottom, the right side and the top of the tube. 
You can see on the screenshot how I did it ... 
1 = cleaned part
2 = part covered with the "Misted" tube.
We want to have the background - color 10/27/35 - nicely cleaned. 
When you re satisfied with the result, you can deselect the tube (Enter). 



Open the tube ... Ballerina ..., copy the tube, and paste the copy of the tube on our main picture.
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, change the Width to 325, 
and the Position of the tube to: Left: 114 / Top: 271.
Keep the tube activated, choose the Pick Tool change the Transparency to 55 and the Soft edge to 3.
Keep the tube activated.

Also here parts of the "Misted" tube are outside our mask frame, so choose the Eraser one more time, 
use the same settings as before, and erase now the parts outside the inner border of the mask. 
(See screenshot ... between the red and the white arrow.)
When you re satisfied with the result, you can Merge All.



Open the tube ... mds1890Ballett ... copy and paste the tube on our main picture, 
and set the Position to: Left: 71 / Top: 329. 
Keep the tube activated, right click/Duplicate, and go to Edit/Fade Out and use these settings:
Fill type: 6.altern. + Fill color: Two-color: 100%  - 50%.
Click OK, right click/Duplicate.
Merge All.



Right click/All, right click/Border, and use these settings:
Border width: 30 Pixels, Direction: Inward, Shape: Box and Anti-aliasing.
Click OK, keep the 30 pixels border selected, right click/Border and change the Border width to 2. 
Keep the border selected

Go to Edit/Fill/Image/File and find the downloaded and unzipped fill with the name ... cmv_gold.jpg.
Click OK and deselect the border (spacebar). 

Add some text as you wish, Merge All and your blend is finished. :))

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