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SEA QUEEN - BY BRENDA

Place masks in your supply folder in your masks file so you can find it easily. There are three masks that we will be "blending" for the background look.

Skill Level required: INTERMEDIATE although Beginners should be able to do as well.

Filter Required: DSB Flux and Penta Dot and Cross.

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SEA QUEEN - BY BRENDA

1. Open 625 by 600 blank raster canvas.

2. Flood fill canvas with #6ba4bc

3. Layers/load mask/load mask from disk. Find and load Raute1_EN. Apply. Right click on layer palette/merge group. Do NOT merge down. MERGE GROUP. Duplicate/merge down. Name this layer NOISE 1.

4. Still on same, selections/select all/float/defloat/modify/select/selection borders/5/add new raster layer/fill selection on new layer with white. Name White Border.

5. On the new white border layer, selections/select all/float/defloat/modify/select/selection borders/3/add new raster layer/fill selection on new layer with deep blue nearly black You can merge the black thinner border down into the white border.

6. Add new raster layer. Set foreground color to: #1c7692

Flood fill new layer with this color.

7. Layers/load mask/load mask from disc/crealine 2012. In box when it opens, check invert, Right click on layer palette/merge group. Duplicate/merge duplicate down with original.

8. Use your ellipse selection tool found here:

In the selection type box choose ellipse.

Use the ellipse tool to outline each of the dark ovals in the new mask layer one at at time. When you have one selected/effects/filter effects/Penta/Dot and Cross/these settings:

The example shows it being applied to all, but you have selected only one of the ovals and applied. Then go up to next oval and select with ellipse and apply same filter.

8. Add new raster layer. Set foreground color to #99d0e1

9 Flood fill new layer with this blue.

10. Layers/load mask/load mask from disk/Dots_BG 6/apply/right click on layer palette/merge group/duplicate/merge down. Name this new mask layer: NOISE 2.

11. Selection/select all/float/defloat/modify/select/selection borders/5/add new raster layer/flood fill selection on new layer with black. Duplicate the black border merge it down into the original black border/effects/3d effects/drop shadow/2/2/Opacity 20/Blur 1.00.

You should now have this:

12. Add new raster layer. Move it below the top light blue mask frame. Go to your ellipse tool and draw out a white ellipse below the circle you see above. Make sure it lies under the circle and does NOT protrude from outside of that circle:

13. Select the white with magic wand. Open SEA WATER. Edit/copy/paste into selection.

14. Open CLEO MERMAID. Edit/copy/paste as new layer/effects/image effects/offset/Horizontal 70/Vertical -34. Duplicate. Name CLEO 1 and CLEO 2. Close out Cleo 1. Zoom in on CLEO 2. Use your freehand selection tool to outline tail like this:

15. Right click on layer palette/promote selection to layer/back down to Cleo 2 and edit/cut. Move back up to the new tail piece an use pick tool to move tail up to right almost touching her head but matching the bottoms together:

16. When you have it as you like it, merge the tail piece down with the mermaid.

ANIMATION STATION

Open CLEO 1 - close CLEO 2.

1. Go to the TWO NOISE layers and apply effects/filter effects/DSB Flux/add bright noise/70/layers/merge visible/save as PSP 1.