Beautiful Mermaid

Tutorial by: Edith's Creativeness

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Scrapkit 'Mermaid Beauty' by Amy Marie

You can purchase this kit HERE

Tube 'Splash' by Chris Pastel at The PSP Project

You can purchase it HERE

Mask of your choice.
I am using Vix_BigMask018 by Vix.

Font of your choice.
I am using the font 'Austie Bost Wibbly'.

Program used: Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9

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This tutorial is written with the understanding that the user has a good working knowledge of PSP.

This tutorial is written by me, and any similarities is strictly coincidental.

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Let's begin!

Open a 600x600 new image canvas – transparent background.

Open element 83 and re-size to 450x449.

Copy and paste as a new layer onto canvas.

Position as you like.

Open your choice of tube.

You may need to re-size your tube. I re-sized mine to 412x560.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer onto canvas.

Position as you like.

Go to the layer with the frame.

Using your selection tool, click inside the frame.

Go to selections, modify, expand by 5.

Open element 81.

Copy and paste as a new layer to canvas.

Position as you like.

Go to selections, and invert.

Hit delete on your key board.

Selections, and select none. Move raster to below frame.

Open element 88 and re-size to 510x148.

Copy and paste as a new layer to canvas.

Position as you like.

Duplicate. Move to the left and up just a little.

Duplicate again, and move to the right and up just a little.

Merge sand layers together.

Open element 101 and re-size to 200x176.

Copy and paste as a new layer to canvas.

Position as you like.

Open element 68 and re-size to 64x56.

Copy and paste as a new layer onto canvas.

Mirror. Position as you like.

Open element 130 and re-size to 66x54.

Copy and paste as a new layer onto canvas.

Position as you like.

Open element 131 and re-size to 66x61.

Copy and paste as a new layer onto canvas.

Position as you like.

Open element 27 and re-size to 100x66.

Copy and paste as a new layer onto canvas.

Position as you like.

Open element 125 and re-size to 180x46.

Copy and paste as a new layer onto canvas.

Position as you like.

Go to your frame, using your selection tool click inside the frame.

Go to selections, modify, and expand. Expand by 5.

Open paper 1.

Copy and paste paper as a new image onto canvas.

Go to selections, invert, and then hit delete on your key board.

Selections again, and select none.

Move to the bottom layer.

Open paper 1.

Copy and paste as a new layer to canvas.

Move that layer to very bottom.

Apply mask of choice.

I am using Vix_BigMask018 by Vix.

Merge group.

Position as you like.

Duplicate. Mirror.

Now add a drop shadow to all your elements and tube (except for the paper) to your liking.

Adding a drop shadow will make your tag pop instead of giving it that flat look.

I used these settings: 3, 2, 60, 5.

Add your copyright information and your license number to your tag.

I use 'Arial' font size 8 to do mine in the color black. I also used the plugin of Eye Candy Gradient Glow with a width of 5 to go around my copyright and license information in the color choice of b3cdd7.

Merge visible layers together. Give your creation a name and save as a blank copy.

Now, add a name to your tag in your font of choice.

I used font 'Austie Bost Wibbly' in size 48. Color choice was 287191.

Merge down and re-save.