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This Tutorial was written on August 16th 2012 by Ashly
It is of my own creation and any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

Please do not copy and do not post elsewhere.

Do not translate or script.
This tutorial is written as if you have a general knowledge on how to use the program.

***What you'll need***
Program of Choice.
I am using Photoshop CS5

But, if you know your tools you can use any program of choice

Tube of choice.
I am using the artwork of Maureen Seng

You must purchase a license to use her tubes and can do so HERE

Scrapkit of Choice

I am using “Luau” by Amy Marie's Kits

You can find this for purchase HERE

Mask of Choice

I am using Mask84 by Weescotslass Creations

You can find this for download on her blog HERE

Additonal Filers Needs

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II – Pool Shadow

~*~*~ Let's Get Started~*~*~

Start a new canvas

600px by 600px

Flood fill with white.

Open frame2

Add to your canvas

Resize to 90%

Add a drop shadow

Open pp2

Resize to 600px by 600px

Add to your canvas below the frame

Use your magic wand to select inside the frame

Select → Modify → Expand, by 6

Invert the selection and on the paper layer press delete

Open pp010

Resize to 600px by 600px

Add to your canvas just above the white background layer

Apply the mask to this layer

Add your tube to your canvas

Resize and reposition to your liking

Have below the frame but above the paper layer

Erase any of the tube that's outside the frame

Change the blend mode to Luminosity

Lower the Opacity to 30%

Add the tube to the canvas once more

Resize and reposition to your liking

Duplicate this layer

On the bottom layer add a drop shadow

On the new layer

Filer → Blur → Gaussian Blur, 3.0 px

Change the blend mode to soft light

Now add which elements you'd like

I used the following from the bottom up with a drop shadow unless stated:

glittersplat (No drop shadow)

glittersplat (no drop shadow)
glittersplat (no drop shadow)

palm tree 1 (no drop shadow)

palm tree 1 (no drop shadow)

flowerstring

slice3

drinkbrella2

lei

g2

shell3

tropicaldrink2

tropicalmix

tropicalmix2

flower1

flower1

flower1

brad

brad

shell4

shell4

Add some wordart if you'd like to I used pp021 to 'color' mine

Add your name

Image → Trim

Top left pixel color all boxes checked

Resize if you'd like to

****Most Important****

Add your copy right information

If you're happy with you're result save to your liking and you're done!

Now if you want to animate

Go to the paper backing of your frame and duplicated it 4x.

Hide all but the first layer.

Add Filter:

Greg's Factory Output II: Pool Shadow

Diagonal:48

Center:50

Horizontal:50

Diagonal:50

Horizontal:50

Vertical:50

Intensity:61

Lightness:64

Apply then go to your next duplicated layer and apply the filter again but change the diagonal to 58.

Do that for each following layer add 10 to the Diagonal.

Then go to you Animation Window:

Make sure you have only the first layer of paper highlighted and duplicate the animation frame so you have 5 total.

You want it to repeat forever with delay set at: .2 seconds.

One each frame for animation change it so you can only see one of the 5 paper background layers and once that's done press play and it should run just fun and look like a water reflection effect.

Once you're happy with your tag Save it as a .gif

You're Done!!

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