Tutorial and Graphics are the copyright of havasu hideout.  It is strictly
forbidden to copy or upload to your own server other than for printing purposes for your own personal use.  The image you make from this tutorial is yours to do with as you wish!

You will need
JASC's PSP7 or 8 - Get it here
Monitor Selections.  Unzip the file and place in your PSP Selections Folder. 
If you do not have a Selections Folder, make one now. use for PSP 7
monitor.pspimage file Use for PSP 8
Monitor Accessories.  Unzip to a folder of your choice.

PLEASE NOTE where instructions differ for PSP8, these will be shown in blue
otherwise follow the regular instructions

To keep the loading time down, I have tried to keep the screen captures to a minimum so when the same effect is used more than once, I have just made a reference to it!

Remember to save your work often!!!

Step 1
Open the "Grey Pattern" that you downloaded to a folder of your choice
Set your foreground pattern to "greypattern" Scale 100 Angle 0
Open a New Image 400x400 16 Million Colours Transparent
Open the monitor.pspimage file. Shift D to duplicate and then close the original
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Base"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh01base.sel"
Click on the Base Layer
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh01base
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Go to Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel and apply the Metallic Preset supplied
with PSP
Deselect

Step 2
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Monitor"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh02monitor.sel"
Click on the Monitor Layer
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh02monitor
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Go to Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel and apply the Metallic Preset
Deselect

Step 3
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Speakers"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh03speakers.sel"
Click on the Speakers Layer
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh03speakers
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Go to Selections/Float
Go to Effects/3D Effects/Cut Out and apply these settings:

Deselect

Step 4
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Buttons"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh04buttons.sel"
Click on the Buttons Layer
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh04buttons
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Go to Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel and apply the Metallic Preset
Deselect

Step 5
Set your foreground colour to #6E6A6A
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Text"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh05text.sel"
Click on the Text Layer
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh05text
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Deselect

Step 6
Set your foreground colour to #000000
Go to your Layer Palette and highlight the Base Layer
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Inner Screen"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh06innerscreen.sel"
Click on the Inner Screen Layer
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh06innerscreen
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Deselect

Decorate your inner screen with your favourite tubes!  Put each image on
a separate layer so that you can move them around

Go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible
If you would like to add a wire make sure you add a layer under the Monitor
layer

Save as a tube or psp image for later use.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.  Please feel free to email me if you have any questions to fran@havasuhideout.com

Tutorial written June 26 2003

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