FTU Tutorial: Ocean Treasures

Supplies needed:

The kit "Ocean" from Elves of Rosegarden HERE

Mermaid tube of choice (I used a beautiful tube by Verymany, Mermaid 4) which you can purchase from HERE. Please use proper license!

Font of choice 

Let's get started!

(Remember to add drop shadows as you go along!)

Open sl_Frame_1.  Shift+D to duplicate, close original.
Resize by Pixels > 700, all layers checked.
sl_44, resize 78%, all layers UNchecked.
Drag this layer under the frame layer.
Move very slightly to the right and up just a little.
sl_33. Drag this layer to very bottom in layer palette and position as you wish to fill the rest of
the frame.  Erase everything that is sticking out of the frame.
Highlight top layer.  sl_26, resize 65%. Rotate left 9°.
Move this to the bottom right of the frame, where the water covers the bottom of the frame.
sl_19, resize 80%.  Move down to bottom left of canvas.
Duplicate and move over to the right side of the frame, and move down slightly to the bottom of your
canvas.  Merge down.  Drag this to very bottom layer.
Highlight top layer. sl_25, resize 20%. Rotate left 6.  Adjust>Sharpen. Move down to bottom left of frame where the
water is splashing out and drag this layer below the frame layer.
Highlight top layer.   sl_48 resize 50%.  Position to where the top of the stick is just touching the bottom left corner
of the frame.  Duplicate, and drag the duplicate layer to just below the frame layer. 

Highlight the top stick layer and erase everything of the stick except the part that is resting on the corner of
the frame.
Now highlight el_26 (the water/sand layer) and erase the parts covering the stick.
sl_46, resize 75%.  Change blend mode to color.  Erase parts on the bottom that are showing on
the sand.
sl_22, resize 85%.  Move to bottom of the frame to where the right edge meets the bottom
right corner of the frame. Blend mode to dodge.
sl_31, rotate left 90, Flip vertical. Resize 50%.  Place over the right edge of the frame.
sl_9, resize 25%.  Flip horizontal and move to bottom right corner of frame.
Duplicate. Resize 85%. Flip horizontal and move down near the end of the stick.
Paste your tube, resize and position as desired (I resize mine by 53% and I put her on the
right hand side of my canvas, and dragged this layer down between the two sl_9 layers.)
sl_41, resize 22%.  Colorize if desired.  Place this under your tube layer, behind and to the
of her knees (I assume mermaids have knees lol).
sl_30 to top layer, resize 28%.  Place beside the stick, in front of your tube beside her extended
arm.
sl_7.  Flip horizontal.  Resize 13%.  Sharpen.  Move down to just at the bottom of sl_30. 

Duplicate and drag that layer below sl_30. 

Highlight the top sl_30 layer and erase the left side to make it look like the leaf of the plant is hanging over
the top of the shell.
Use your freehand selection tool and select the pearl to the left of the shell.  Ctrl+C to copy. 
Ctrl+D to deselect. Ctrl+L to paste as new layer and move to the right, beside the mermaid,
just below the flowers. Duplicate and resize 90% and move where desired.
sl_15, resize 18% flip horizontal and place at the bottom on the sand.
sl_32, resize 10%.  Place between the starfish and the flower on the stick.
sl_40, resize 8% and place to the right and slightly down of sl_32.
sl_5, resize 8% and place between sl_40 and sl_32.
sl_27.  Resize 15%. Sharpen. Place toward the top left of the water in the frame.
sl_51, resize 10% and place above and to the left of sl_27.
sl_18. Resize 7%.  Place in front of the fish, up a bit.  Colorize if desired.
sl_16.  Effects>Geometic Effects>Circle, transparent.

Resize 120%.  Effects>Geometic Effects>Perspective-Vertical. Distortion: 30, transparent.
Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance. Duplicate.
Effects>Edge Effects>High Pass>10, Desaturate checked.
Drag this layer to bottom.
Duplicate. Resize 90%.  Adjust>Blur>Motion Blur>Angle 230, Strength 100.
Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance More.
Press K on your keyboard to call up your pick tool and move toward the top of your canvas.
Colorize if desired.

Add your copyright, name and save as .png!

This tutorial was written by Shazza on July 28, 2018.

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