Underwater Beauty

Underwater Beauty.

 

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Tutorial by BabyV written on 10/02/2010
This tutorial was made by my own ideas, any similarity to any other tutorial is by mere chance.
You will need a basic working knowledge of PSP to do this tutorial.
Tutorial written in PSP X2.


Items used in this kit is my scrap kit Blue Diamonds ( tagger sized ) which you can purchase at my store here .
The tube used is Keith Garvey's Precious ( psp16661) which you can purchase at My PSP Tubes.

1) Open paper of choice in PSP ( if using my kit I chose paper 4) in your keyboard hit SHIFT and D at the same time, then go to layers, promote background to layer. This will duplicate your paper, close your original.

2) Go to your selection tool, choose selection, then on selection type choose rounded rectangle.
On your working image draw yourself out a rectangle no longer than 500 px and taller than 150px.

3) Go to selections, Invert, then hit the delete key on your keyboard, select none.

4) Go back to Selections, select all, selection float, selection defloat, Selections, Modify, Expand by 3 pixels. Layer new raster layer, send to bottom. Use your paint bucket tool and fill in with a contrasting color of choice. Selections, Modify, Contract by 5, hit the delete key.

5) Click on your top layer ( should be your paper), open tube of choice in PSP. If your tube has legs ( like the one I used did) then you will need to copy  and paste her on to your working image. Position her legs how you want them to be and add a drop shadow. Then change the layer transparency to 43.

6) Open element of choice copy ( blue diamonds) , paste and, position how you like on the tag, use a drop shadow of choice.

7) Open water element of choice, copy, paste and, position how you like, add a drop shadow.

8) Copy tube again, paste on tag position face how you want, add drop shadow. If parts of the body tube are showing use your eraser tool to erase and blend in where needed.

9) Open two more elements  and place them around the face ( diamond stars) for accents, add a drop shadow, image rotate @ 10 to the left.

10) Go to the paper layer of your tag. Selections, Select All, Selections Float, Selections Defloat.  Now go to the top layer of your tag, create a new layer. Then go to Effects, 3d Effects, Cutout. Settings are as follows.
V1, H-1,  OPACITY 58, BLUR 25. 


11) Go to Selections, Invert, hit the delete key. Go through your tag and do this to each layer EXCEPT the BOTTOM LAYER. Select none.

12) Go to your very bottom layer of your tag, send this layer to the top.

13)  Add your copyright information along with your license number, position where it can be legibly seen.
Merge all layers.

14)  Click your selection tool, Click on Layer Opaque in your tool bars,  Crop image to selection.

15) Add your name or saying on your tag with font of choice, add a drop shadow, save as PNG.

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