Ptu - Hot Merlady

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 Rieneke Designs

"Mermaid" Purchase at Scrap N Company

Font of choice

Prime Script

Mask by Rachel

MaskSet126 (Mask2)

Grab Here

Temp by Rachey

Temp2 Grab Here

Plugins Optional:

Redpaw media - beautifier

xero - porcelain

penta.com - color dot

xero - radiance

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 KiwiBG

You can find his artwork HERE 

Tube i used can be found HERE

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Open temp, R/S to 80% canvas size 650x650

Remove credits (raster1) then 1, and background

Open tube R/S to 55% C/P onto canvas - drag in center

sharpen tube once, apply radiance settings of choice - D/S

Select layer2 selections all float defloat open paper8

R/S to 80% C/P onto canvas, selections - invert select none, Remove O/L

Inside each of the squares i put close up tube of choice

change blend mode: overlay - greyscale - plugin poreclain default settings

Then i applied penta.com - color dot, settings of choice

Now apply out your glow - add noise then D/S

Select layer 5 and 6, moving these alittle closer

Select layer5 selections all float defloat open paper1

R/S to 80% C/P onto canvas, selections - invert select none

remove O/L apply outer glow - add noise - D/S

Select layer6 selections all float defloat open paper1

 C/P onto canvas, selections - invert select none

remove O/L apply outer glow - add noise - D/S

Select layer3 selections all float defloat open paper2

R/S to 80% C/P onto canvas, selections - invert select none

remove O/L apply outer glow - add noise - D/S

Select original (temp) layer 3. selections all float defloat

Select layer 4, then hit delete. select none, drag above layer 3

Select layer4 selections all float defloat open paper3

R/S to 80% C/P onto canvas, selections - invert select none. remove O/L

Apply glass plugin on this black paper, settings of choice

apply outer glow - add noise - D/S

Select layer8 selections all float defloat open paper5 

R/S to 50% C/P onto canvas, selections - invert select none

remove O/L apply outer glow - add noise - D/S

I applied paper twice on this each corner with the

waves crashing up against them, optional

If you don't do this then R/S to 80%

Now it's time for more elements

Elements i used and the resized %

Using this drop shadow: 0, 0, 45, 5, color black

ELEMENT13 - 50%

ELEMENT34 - 50%

ELEMENT31 - 30%

ELEMENT37 - 25%

ELEMENT41 - 30%

ELEMENT25 - 45%

ELEMENT20 - 25%

ELEMENT24 - 40%

ELEMENT11 - 30%

ELEMENT49 - 25%

ELEMENT2 - 50%

ELEMENT9 - 40%

ELEMENT19 - 25%

ELEMENT6 - 20%

ELEMENT27 - 50%

ELEMENT21 - 30%

ELEMENT47

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

Apply your mask, copyrights,  add your name save as a PNG

I applied beautifier to the whole tag, settings of choice

I used paper9 for my mask

You're done!

Thanks for trying my tutorial.

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This tutorial was written on October 19th, 2016 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.