Bubble Mermaid

This tutorial was written
by Sarah Fiack on
April 8th,2012
Any resemblance to another
tutorial is purely coincidental.
For this tutorial, I’m using
a tube by Cecilia Lovera
You can find the tube at
PSPTubeStop

Supplies:
Tube Of Choice.
Plugins: EyeCandy5 Impact Glass
EyeCandy4000 Gradient Glow

Open a 600x250 new image.
Open up your tube of choice.

Fill the new image with a
color from your tube.

Add a new raster layer.
On your materials palette,
choose a 2nd color for stroke
& a 3rd color for Fill.

On your Gradients option,
Foreground & Background blend.
You want the blend on both Materials
palettes.
Angle 45 Repeats 4

Use your preset shape tool, circle
width 3.00.
Draw out four circles in different sizes.
Convert each one to raster.
Position one circle per corner of the tag.

Merge the 4 circle layers together.
Adjust add noise Uniform 15

Apply the plugin EyeCandy5 Impact Glass
Setting Clear No drop shadow.
Default settings.

EyeCandy4000 Gradient Glow.
Apply Setting Fat Glow width 3.00
to the circle layers.

Copy & paste your main tube as
a new layer.
Position in the center of the tag.
Add a drop shadow to the tube.
2,2,50,5 Black.

Add a new raster layer.
Fill with a color of choice.
Select this layer with your magic
wand tool.
Selections contract by 4.
Press delete.
On the same layer, adjust
add noise. Uniform 15.

Merge layers visible.
Add artist copyright info & name.
Save as png.
Thanks for trying my tutorial.