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

Purrfectly Sexy ~ SAC

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This tutorial was written by Sharon on Sept 12, 2011

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Scrapkit First Love here

Template # 122 by me here

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

Open your template, shift D to duplicate & close original

Delete credit layer

Activate the circle layer

Select all>float>defloat

Paste paper 16 as a new layer

Invert your selection

Delete

Do Not Deselect

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Delete

Deselect

Add drop shadow

Activate large rectangle

Select all>float>defloat

Paste paper 15 as a new layer

Invert your selection

Delete

Deselect

Pick a darker color from one of your paper layers

Floodfill the Paw, large circle and large rectangle layers

Apply inner bevel to the circle & rectangle layers using bevel # 2 width 15

Pick a darker color from your other paper layer

Floodfill the top & bottom rectangles

Activate raster 1

Select all

Paste paper 22 into selection

Deselect

Back to the top

Paste beads 2 as a new layer

Resize to 75%

Move to the upper left corner of the rectanngle layer

Duplicate & mirror

Merge down

Duplicate & flip

Merge down

Use your pick tool to re adjust the height, it's probably too long

Move to below the circle layers

Add a light drop shadow

Paste bow 5 as a new layer

Resize to 50%

Position at the top of the large rectangle

Add drop shadow

Paste butterfly 5 as a new layer

Resize to 50%

Position on left side of circle

Add drop shadow

Do the same with butterfly 6

Position on the lower right side of circle

Add drop shadow

Paste flower 3 as a new layer

Resize to 50%

Rotate right 30

Position on upper right circle area

Add drop shadow

Floodfill word art with the same color you used for the paws

Apply inner bevel, same as above

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your name & your © info

Merge all

Save as jpg & 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

:)