Mermaid in Manhatten

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on March 20, 2012

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

City Scene by me here

Umbrella by me here

Plugins

Eyecandy Nature Water Drops

The tube I used Merry Mermaid is by Chuck Bauman, you can purchase this tube from PTE here

Open a new transparent canvas 700x700, we will resize later

Floodfill with a cloud pattern

Paste city Scene as a new layer

Add a new raster layer

Floodfill with a medium yellow

Move to below your city scene

Using your magic wand click on the outside area of your city scene layer

Activate your yellow layer

Delete

I had to repeat these steps on the right side

Deselect

Add a new raster layer above your yellow layer

Floodfill with black

Repeat the same steps as for the yellow layer

Paste your tube as a new layer

Apply Eyecandy Nature Water Drops, change size to 5 and coverage to 10

Add drop shadow

Paste umbrella as a new layer

Resize to 50%

Position over your tube

Erase the handle from the edge of the head on down

Select all>float>defloat

Add a new raster layer

Contract 12

Floodfill with a color from your tube

Add an inner bevel

Add a new raster layer

Repeat above steps, you will have 2 colors on your umbrella

Apply water drops to each umbrella layers

Apply water drops to each umbrella layer 

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Hide the black floodfilled layer & 1 umbrella layer

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Unhide the black layer & hide the yellow layer

Unhide 1 umbrella layer & hide the other

Copy & paste after current in animation shop

I set the black frame at 50 & the yellow at 200

Save as gif & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

I would love to post your © compliant result, just email it to me with the tut name in the subject line

:)

Result by Kaye W