Ptu - Beach Life

This tutorial was written in PSP 9 and can be used with any other version. I assume that you have a working knowledge of PSP.

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Supplies Needed:

Tube of choice/close up

Paid Scrap kit by Toxic Desirez

"Sail Away" Purchase at Skullified Scrapz

Font of choice

Ravie

Plugins Optional:

radiance

red paw media

Tutorial shortcut index:

"Delete" on your keyboard under Insert.

"C/P" copy and paste as new layer.

Remove "O/L" Remove original layer.

"D/S" Drop shadow located in 3D effects.

"R/S" Resize layer located in Image.

New "R/L" Raster layer, in Layers.

"outer glow" Gradient glow from eye candy

Or my method on my blog under "How to dos"

Good D/S settings:

0, 0, 57, 6, color black

Good add noise settings:

Uniform- 70-90 % noise monochrome

Random- 10-34% noise monochrome

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I used the artwork of Ismeal Rac

You can find his artwork Here

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Open frame3 R/S 55% canvas size 600x600

Image- Rotate clockwise, duplicate frame then mirror it

now and spread apart so it's now 6 square frames

Merge frames together, with magic wand click inside each one

selections- m odify- expand by8, now with your selection tool

set to point to point make sure the little pieces behind the seaweed is 

inside the marching ants. Now open paper "background" R/S 50%

C/P onto canvas selections invert- delete. select none. 

drag below your frame layer. apply D/S to frame

Open tube of choice, R/S, C/P onto canvas, apply D/S

Note: I placed my elements around my tube

Now it's element time

Elements i used and the resized %

Using this drop shadow: 0, 0, 41, 7, color black

Beachball - 15%

Crab - 15%

Chair - 25%

Boat - 20%

(For the boat i used my deform tool

and i make it smaller to fit onto the water background)

Sand - 25%

Starfish2 - 20%

Lighthouse - 30%

Seagulls - 25%

Dolphin - 12%

Rock - 15%

Sunglasses - 15%

Life preserver - 20%

place elements where you want, or use my tag as a guide.

Apply your copyrights,  add your name save as a PNG
I didn't use a mask. what i did was duplicate my merged tag
On duplicate layer, added blur then texture effects - mosaic antique

You're done!

Thanks for trying my tutorial.

Now lets see those results.

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This tutorial was written on August 29th, 2015 by Melissa.

In no way may this tutorial be copied to another

website without the creators permission. Any resemblance

to this tutorial is purely coincidental.