Elegant     Leave the tubes in original state, It costs a lot of work to create. Thanks everyone for the lovely tubes O. A .   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/top_design_tubes/   http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Gerrystubes/   http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Maxyran_Top_Tubes/   Plug-ins: None Plugins  VM Toolbox Instant Tile Supplies Here  1 tube, a background and an animation  Put the materials in the folder they belong   Take along this arrow to where remember you have remained         1 - Open a new image Width 800, Height 600, select all 2 – Open  _abstract-green-twitter-background 3 - Edit – Copy, paste in to selection 4 - Select none 5 – Adjust – Hue and saturation - colorize 6 – H 163 - S 43 7 – Effects – Plugin effects - VM Toolbox Instant Tile  77  31 8 -  Layers-merge- merge all layers (flatten) 9 – Image-add borders 5 pixels # 868ca7 10 - Image-add borders 50 pixels # 21232d 11 – Image-add borders 5 pixels # 868ca7 12 – Selection – select all 13 – Selection – modify - contract 18 14 - Layers – new Raster layer 15 - Floodfill with # 868ca7 16 – Selection -  modify - contract 10, hit the delete button 17 – Select none, select new border with your magic wand 18 – – Effects -  reflection effects - Kaleidoscope 19 – All  0, upper right 10, color checked # 3c4454 20 Effects - 3D effects – outer bevel  default #ffffff 21- Select none 22 – Layers-merge- merge all layers (flatten) 23 – Open   tube Lady of Ana ridzi 24 - Image resize Height 700, Width will adjust 25 -  Edit – Copy – paste as new layer, put it nicely in the middle, see example 26 – Add watermark 27 -  Edit – merged copy 28 - Open animationshop 29 - click Rightmouse button – paste as new animation 30 - Edit – select all – copy 31- Paste after current frame till you have 5 frames 32 - Edit – select all 33- Open bol animation  in animationshop  35 - Edit – select all - copy Black background  remove: Selected frames checked Old color checked - must be black Transparent opacity checked,  (black color will not disappear but  the animation can be put on your tag, it’s already been colorized by me) 35 – Put it in the first frame of your tag. repeat it as many times you want 36 -  Click the View button 37- If you’re satisfied… 38 – Animation -Resize animation , Height 500, Width will adjust 39- Save as ….and put it in the folder of you’re choice Nice easy lesson, with a beautiful result  Have fun, hugs Hanny   Translate Rita   Back