Supplies:

Tube of choice I used Elias Chatzoudis. His gorgeous work is available at his store

PlugIns: Xero: Porcelain, MuRa's Meister: Copies, EyeCandy5: Gradient Glow, Richard Rosenman: Solid Borders

Fonts of choice: I used Arial Rounded MT Bold, Agency FB

Lets get started:

Banner:

Open a new 700x300 image (will refer to it as your canvas from time to time)

Paste close up of tube (if available) and hide the layer.

Paste full body of tube.

Effects> PlugIns> MuRa's Meister> Copies: On the Preset Menu set to Wallpaper Rotate, Number 20, ShiftX 100, ShiftY 100, Angle 0, Rotation 143, Attenuation 0, Scale 100, Thru BG Range 0, FadeOut 0, BG Color #b74027

Change Blend mode to Hard Light

Create New Raster Layer. Select Flood Fill Tool and flood fill the new raster color #ec7a39 Drag the flood filled layer under the tube layer that you used Copies on.

Unhide the close up layer and use your pick tool to move it to the left side of the canvas and position as desired.

Select the Copies layer again and add Porcelain. Effects> PlugIns> Xero> Porcelain Softness 50, Strength 128, Brightness 128, Red Channel 0, Green Channel 0, Blue Channel 3

Repeat this 3 more times

Select the close up layer again and Porcelain one time

Using the Preset Rectangle draw a rectangle the color of the flood fill that reaches across the canvas. Keep it semi thin. Convert the Rectangle to Raster then duplicate it and flip.

Merge the two Rectangles together and change the Blend mode to Screen. Drag under the close up layer.

Create saying with font of choice. I used Agency FB size 24

Effects> PlugIns> MuRa's Meister> Copies: On the Preset Menu seamless, ShiftMode to Line, Tile Mode Wraparound, Blend Mode Normal, Number 3, ShiftX 100, ShiftY 0, Angle 0, Rotation 0, Attenuation 0, Scale 100, Thru BG Range 0, FadeOut

Duplicate and drag to where it covers the bottom Rectangle Chenge both blend modes to Hue

Merge Visible

Effects> PlugIns> RichardRosenman> SolidBorders> Horizontal & Vertical 5, Transp 0, color black

Select the border with magic wand

Selections> Promote Selection To Layer

Adjust> Add/Remove Noise> Add Noise Uniform 100

Resize 600x257

Add Copyright

Add name I used Arial Rounded MT Bold size 72 color #f6831e

Add Noise Uniform 41

Effects> PlugIns> EyeCandy5Impact> Gradient Glow> Glow Type Outside, Mask Selection Checked, Glow Radius 5, Soften Corners 8, Overall Opacity 100, Distortion Amount 0, Distortion Lump Size 7, Smoothness 100, color black and orange (#f6831e)

Effects> 3D Effects> Drop Shadow> Vertical 3, Horizontal 2, Opacity 45, Blur 5, Color black

Merge Visible Save as PNG.

Avatar:

Open a 200x 200 image

Flood fill same as banner

Paste full body tube like before

Image> Resize 75%

Effects> PlugIns> MuRa's Meister> Copies: On the Preset Menu set to Wallpaper Rotate, Number 20, ShiftX 100, ShiftY 100, Angle 0, Rotation 143, Attenuation 0, Scale 100, Thru BG Range 0, FadeOut 0, BG Color #b74027

Select the Copies layer again and add Porcelain. Effects> PlugIns> Xero> Porcelain Softness 50, Strength 128, Brightness 128, Red Channel 0, Green Channel 0, Blue Channel 3

Repeat this 3 more times

Merge Visible.

Paste Close up & Image> Resize 50% then position as you like

Porcelain close up

Drop shadow with settings from banner

Merge Visible

Effects> PlugIns> RichardRosenman> SolidBorders> Horizontal & Vertical 6, Transp 0, color black

Select the border with magic wand

Selections> Promote Selection To Layer

Adjust> Add/Remove Noise> Add Noise Uniform 100

Selections> None

Image Resize (entire avatar) 150x150

Add copyright

At this point you have a choice:

You can follow the same steps as before to add name and just use the first letter of the name OR you can put the entire name with a leading of -.35 the size will depend upon the length of the name

Merge visible

Save as PNG

Thank you for trying my tutorial