Beach Fun

Here is the mask you will need just right click and save place

 into the mask folder which came with your psp program


 located in your documents




Open a 400 x 400 transparent image.

Open a background of your choice.


Activate the transparent layer.



Selections / select all.



Paste your background INTO selection.



Selections /select none.


Close the original background.

Layer palette right click on active layer and duplicate until you have 2.
Activate the top layer.
Effects / artistic effects / aged newspaper settings: amount of age 5


Adjust / color balance / choose the colour you want by moving the markers / tone balance 

midtones checked



adjust / brightness and contrast adjust brightness to your own liking


Layers / load,save mask / load mask from disk.


Mask warning / fit to canvas checked / source luminance checked / invert transparency 


unchecked / hide all mask checked / load.

Layer palette x out bottom layer

activate top layer

Layers / merge group

effects / 3d effects / drop shadow settings: v1 / h1 / op 100 / blur 4 / black / ok

layers / merge visible

Open a tube


Copy and paste your tube onto the merged layer as a new layer.



Tools / deform position your tube and resize if needed.


Click Pan.

Effects / 3d effects / drop shadow add a light drop shadow own settings.


Add your copyright and watermark then merge visible.



Tools / text tool / vector / direction any / font any / size any / sw 0 / sharp.

Material palette set white in both boxes.


Write your name then in the layer palette right click on vector convert to raster layer.



Selections/ select all / float / defloat.



Press delete on the keyboard.



We are going to add a 3 part drop shadow.


Effects / 3d effects / drop shadow.



1st drop shadow settings: v -1 / h -1 /op 100 / b 11.88 / white ok.



2nd drop shadow settings: v -1 / h -1 /op 100 / b 0 / black ok.



3rd drop shadow settings: v 1 / h 1 / op 100 / b 0 / white ok.



Selections / select none.



Finish of by adding your own touches either by a brush / sparkles anything you like.



Layers / merge all flatten.



save.



This Tutorial was created and installed by ©Mally on Thursday 14  September 2006

Updated on Sunday 4 March 2012

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