New Tutorial Mermaid Ocean

CT Tutorial for Moonshine Dezinez

This tutorial was written by me on May 21, 2016 and is my own creation. I ®reserve all rights to tutorial. Please do not claim as your own. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental. I used PSP X 3 to write this tutorial but it should work fine in other versions. This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP

Legend: C/P Copy Paste / D/S Drop Shadow default setting: 3 -3 58 7.92 / bg: background /
E Element / R Resize / Unsharp mask Settings: 3 30 3 (Use after resizing if the image looks grainy or blurry   S/F/D: Select All, Float, Defloat

I try to write my tutorials as plain and clear as possible, but if I get you confused (and, if I do, I am sorry) you can always refer back to the image we are making for reference. Also, this is just a guideline (I write where I place the elements ) but, feel free to move them around, or add different elements. Have fun and experiment, it is the best way to learn new things.

The gorgeous Kit Mermaid Ocean by Moonshine Dezinez was used for this tutorialThis kit is exclusive to Hania's Designs and is Available here I used the matching tube for this kit by ©Stella Felice which is also available at Hania Designs

Here is what we are making:

Okay onto the tutorial.
I hope you have fun and hopefully learn something new along the way.
Please remember that this is just a guideline and you can make any changes / adjustments that you like.
Doing this will, of course, affect the outcome of your final tag.

Supplies Needed for this tutorial Xero (Porcelain and Fritillary) Filters Available Here SBP Flood Filter Available Here EC 5 Impact Gradient Glow and Perspective Shadow Available Here Tiny Double GG By Vaybs Setting Here Font Secret of the Octopus Available Here New 600 X 250 Flood fill with gradient settings: Foreground: #1a4f5d Background: #bcd6e5 linear 0 0 Select All C/P pp 11 as new layer move up until you see the net and water swirls Crop to selection flip Duplicate flip again With selection tool draw out a rectangle at about the top 1/4th of the duplicated image. Edit - Clear With eraser tool erase some of the paper at the clear line - see screen shot for reference - to blend the images. merge down duplicate Duplicate - on duplicated area with selection tool go to custom selection with these settings: L - 300 L 600 top 125 bottom 250 clear select none Custom selection - on same layer - with these settings: Top: 0 B: 125 R: 300 L: 0 Select none Change blend mode to Luminance (l) adjust - blur - guassian blur 3 Close this layer for now On bottom layer apply same guassian blur Filter Xero: Fritillary default settings then Xero - Porcelain default settings C/P tube as new layer R 75% Move to far left change blend mode to soft light Open closed layer - this layer should be above the tube layer Flaming Pear: Flood preset with these settings: [ 60 0 57 50 ] [40 50 42 25 color black] [0 33 40 ] refer to ss if needed Filter Xero porcelain default setting Adding the elements: E 33 R 75% place right of center E 48 R 75% move to left center E 12 R 38% place on far right side C/P tube as new layer mirror resize 50% E 14 R 50% X2 duplicate Place duplicated image on left side of canvas original move in front and toward the top of mermaids mirror Filter - Eye Candy 5 Impact perspective shadow settings with these settings: Tab: basic center offset 339 center offset distance 65.76 overall opacity 90 overall blur 0 perspective blur 6.98 fade out 25 reflect selection color and mask selection both checked. refer to screen shot if needed. merge down (fish and mermaid should be on the same layer) E 18 R 50% X 2 move to left of anchor change blend mode to Luminance (L) and opacity to 80 E 11 R 50% x 2 place toward bottom of canvas over bubbles E 10 R 50% move to left bottom duplicate mirror on original grass layer change blend mode to luminance (l) E 36 R 38% X 2 then 75% move to lower rt corner Select 2 colors - 1 dark and 1 light - from your image I used Foreground: #1a4f5d Background: #bcd6e5 New layer - select all flood fill with dark color selection contract 2 flood fill with light color contract 2 flood fill with dark color contract 1 clear Filter EC 5 Impact gradient glow with vaybs tiny double - first color should be the light color you used and the last color should be the dark. Finished except for adding your copyright info and names. If you want a tag blank to add names to tag later save as a pspimage after adding your copyright info I used font secret of the octopus. I used the same colors I did for the borders and aded a tiny white gg export save as jpg or png almost done For avatar On image we just made close teh border and copyright layer - Copy merged New image 150 X 250 Paste as new layer move around until you have an image you like. I made 3 different ones so you can see how versatile and easy this method is Once you have the image you like add a new layer Do border as above except change contract by 2 to contract by 1 Add copyright info and name. Save as jpg or png and you are done Alternate Avatars