Pastel Mermaid

This tutorial was written
by Sarah Fiack on
June 4, 2012
Any resemblance to another
tutorial is purely coincidental.
For this tutorial, I’m using a
tube by Meg Baker
You can purchase this tube at
PSPTUBESTOP.

Supplies:
Tube of Choice
VixMask_112 Blog
Plugin: VM Toolbox

Open a 600x600 new image.
Open your tube of choice.

Resize the tube 78%.
Paste as a new layer.
Add a drop shadow to the tube.
2,2,50,5 Black

Select your rectangle shape tool.
On your materials palette, select
two colors from your tube for
foreground & fill colors.
Width 5.00

Draw out a narrow rectangle
on the layer below your tube layer.
Convert to raster.
You want your tube to appear
to sit on the rectangle.

Add a new raster layer to
the bottom layer of the tag.
Fill with a different color from
your tube.

Apply the VixMask_112.
Merge group.
Resize the mask layer 80%.
Duplicate once & mirror.
Merge the two mask layers together.
Lower the opacity to 65.

Duplicate your main tube
two more times.
Move the two copy layers so
they are side by side.
Now merge the two layers together.

Move the merged tube layer to
underneath the mask layer.
Adjust Blur Gaussian 10

Apply the plugin VM Toolbox
Radial Mosaic
Default settings.

Merge the mask layer with the
mosaic layer.
Resize 95%.

Add words of choice.
Add a drop shadow to the text.

Merge all the layers visible.
Crop your tag image.

Add copyright information & name.
Save as png.
Thanks for trying my tutorial.