Mermaid

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 20th June 2019, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

Supplies needed:

tube of choice - I am using the beautiful mermaid4 from VeryMany

which can be purchased from the store HERE

my supplies HERE

my scrapkit -Coastal HERE

Mask of choice

font of choice

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Open template from supplies

shift & D to duplicate and close original

c/p paper 12 just above bg layer

apply mask

merge group

layer 1 - select all, float, defloat, c/p paper 16

invert - delete - invert - selections, modify, select selection borders

inside 5

add noise - gaussian 86 - deselect

Layer 2 - repeat using paper 18

Layer 3 - repeat using paper 8

elements 62 & 63

element 64 - resize 60

position along bottom of top layer to your liking

element 31 - resize 30 - rotate left 90

drag down layer palette to just under the top paper layer

position to the left - dropshadow

element 51 - resize 30 - position to the right 

element 30 - resize 50 - erase one of the dolphins

position to your liking between the water layers

c/p tube - resize as necessary

using your freehand selection tool, feather around 20/25

select along the bottom of your tube and hit delete a few times

deselect

duplicate tube twice - mirror one

drag then both down to just above the middle paper layer

on paper layer - select all, float, defloat, contract by 4, invert

position tubes to your liking within the selection, hit delete on each one

deselect

change blend mode to luminance legacy on both.

frame 2 - resize 30 - position just above bottom paper layer

to the right behind the grass

add name, license and copyright information

delete white bg layer

merge visible

crop and save as png