Xero Radiance

Effects,Blinds

Eye Candy 4000, Gradient Glow

Eye Candy5, Gradient Glow

Lets Begin! 

Open up a new image 650x250. flood fill with gradient of choice. I choose two colors form the tube. now go to Effect-Texture Effects-and choose the blinds of your choice.Now copy and paste tube CU,duplicate 2 times so you 3 CU of your tube, arrange to your liking. Merge the CU together and change the color to gray. Duplicate and on the top layer go to Adjust Blur and Gaussian Blur of 3. Blend mode to Soft light. On the bottom one sharpen and add Xero Radiance of choice. Blend mode to Luminance (Legacy) and change the opacity to 70%. Copy and paste main tube to the middle. Now for the elements. See my tag for placement you can add a drop shadow of choice as you go.

element 187

element 167

element 79

element 76

element 113

element 116 duplicate

element 55

elemet 13

element 51

element 48

Now make sure your main tube is on top of all the elements,then duplicate. On the top layer gaussian blur of 3 and blend to soft light. On the bottom one sharpen and add Xero Radiance again, add a drop shadow. On a new layer on top of your tube select all and flood fill with black add noise, modify-contract to 5, Invert and delete & deselect.  then go to Eye candy 5 and select gradient glow the settings for mine are as following