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Water Nymph

 

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I’m using the beautiful art of Ted Hammond.

You can find his beautiful art at CILM.

This tutorial was entirely created by me,

any resemblances to any other tutorials are purely coincidental.

This tutorial was created on 9th of April 2009

 

Supplies needed:

I use Paintshop Pro 9,

other versions can be used too.

EyeCandy 5 Nature - Ripple HERE

Penta.com - Jeans HERE

(under garbage collection)

The scrap kit Holiday-partII by BluedreamDesigns HERE

Mask 25 by Butter HERE

Font: Al Meaningful (PTU but cheap) HERE

 

 

Open 500 x 600 white

You can resize later if you want to

 

Add Sea paper

Layers> Load/save mask > Load mask from disk

> Mask 25

Layers Palette > Merge > Merge group

 

Duplicate the layer three times so you have four of them

(Skip this if you're not animating)

 

Go to the original layer

Adjust > Blur > Gaussian Blur > 10.00

Penta.com - Jeans

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Go to mask layer 1

Freehand selection tool - draw in the circle

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Eyecandy 5 > Ripple >

Waves small and blurry

Then go to the tab Basic

Uncheck Draw outside selection

 

Do the same with mask layer 2 and 3

Click on Random Seed

Deselect (CTRL + d)

 

Add a frame

Image > Resize > 80%

Duplicate it in the Layers Palette

 

Go to the original frame layer

Use the Raster Deform tool to move the frame sideways

(Or Free Rotate)

Look at my tag for reference

 

Click inside the windows with the Magic wand

Selections > Modify > Expand > 3

Add a paper under the frame

Selections > Invert

Delete

Deselect (CTRL + d)

Drop shadow on the frame

V&H: 1

Opacity: 70

Blur: 4

 

Do the same on other frame layer

Use another kind of paper

Drop shadow on the frame as above

 

Add your tube

Drop shadow

V&H: 1

Opacity: 70

Blur: 4

 

Add embellishments 

Resize them as you see fit 

Drop shadow

V&H: 1

Opacity: 70

Blur: 4

 

  Add your name and copyright

Drop shadow on your name as above

 

Merge all layers - if you are not animating

Save as .png

 

Animation:

 

Hide (x out in the layers palette) mask layer 2 and 3

Merge > Merge invisible

Copy (CTRL + c)

 

Go to AS

Paste CTRL + v

 

Go to PSP

Undo

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Hide mask layer 1

Unhide mask layer 2

Merge > Merge invisible

Copy (CTRL + c)

Paste as Current after current

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Repeat with mask layer 3

 

Change the speed of the tag in AS

Select all (CTRL + a)

Right click

Frame properities > 25

Save as .gif

 

Thank you for doing my quicky tutorial!

Copyright MayK’s Creations

 

The tutorial is registered with TWI