PISCES FTU

Written by Gwenda on November 26^th 2011

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Dragonfly, found

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Tube of choice. I used Pisces by The Hunter. These tubes can be purchased through PTE

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Scrapkit called Catch A Wave Sampler, FTU from Gothic Inspirations

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Mask of choice – I used Mask of choice – I used 191 Insatiable Dreams. It’s in group 6

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DBV Template. I used Pisces which can be found under templates - Zodiac

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Open PiscesTemplate. Copy, and close original.

Image – canvas size 650 x 650

Click on white layer at the bottom and floodfill white ( make sure you click on the little eye to open the layer)

Delete top layer (copyright), and third one down ( fish symbol with glow), copy of raster 5 (pink oval which is fourth from bottom), Raster 10 (starfish)

Dropshadow as you go.

Close off all template layers once you have dealt with them (I preferred not to delete them until I was finished, just in case I needed to refer back to the numbers)

Paper 2 – resize 15%

Add new raster layer on top of white background. Selections – select all – Selections – float – selections - defloat. Paste Paper 2 into selection.

Deselect. Sharpen

Layers – load/save mask 191 Insatiable Dreams

Merge group.

Rename all layers, starting with the white background as L1, mask as L2, and working up from there to the Pisces symbol which will be L12.

You will find that a few extra layers appear in the layer palette as we go on, but as long as you have numbered as above, you will be able to see which layer you are working on at the time.

L3 (glitter oval)– Selections – select all – Selections – float – selections - defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #431D19.

Adjust – add noise random  50  monochrome checked.

Rename this layer 3A, and move it in the layers palette to sit above L5 ( blue oval)

Click on L5 Selections – select all – Selections – float – selections - defloat.

Click on L3A and hit delete.

Deselect. Dropshadow brown glitter frame

L4 - (wordart) – Move up and to the right slightly.
Adjust Hue & Saturation – colourize 109   37

Selections – select all – Selections – float – selections - defloat.

Selections – modify – expand by 1

Layers – new raster layer

Fill with #C7C2A1

Deselect.

Move lighter colour below dark one

Merge both these layers together

Dropshadow

L5 (blue oval ) – Paper 2. Undo previous resize, then resize it 16%.

Paste under L5 and move it as far left and up as possible.

Sharpen.

Click on L5 -  Selections – select all – Selections – float – selections - defloat. Selections – invert. Click on Paper 2 and hit delete

Deselect.

L6 (bubbles) – Drop opacity to 68

L7 (Seagrass)  - Selections – select all – Selections – float – selections - defloat.

Layers – new raster layer - Fill with #C7C2A1

Deselect. Dropshadow

Palm – Resize 40%. Place to left. Sharpen.

Layers – duplicate – image mirror.

Image resize 85%. Move this back to the left and position as desired.

Dropshadow both.

Paper 5 – resize 16% then 80%

L8 (grey circles) –  Paper 5 – resize 16% then 80%

Paste over L8. Sharpen

Leave as it is for now – we’ll be back to deal with this in a minute . .

Tube – Paste close up of tube above Paper 5, so her head shows in the centre circle. Dropshadow

Now click on L8. Selections – select all – Selections – float – selections - defloat. Selections – invert. Click on Paper 5 and hit delete, click on tube and hit delete.

Deselect.

Erase any part of your tube that shows in the top or bottom circle.

L9 (frames) – Selections – select all – Selections – float – selections - defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 2 into selection.

Deselect. Sharpen.

Adjust – add noise random  50  monochrome checked.

Inner bevel. Dropshadow

L10 (Stars) – Flower GI – resize 10% and paste over one of the stars. Sharpen. Duplicate flower – image mirror, and move to cover another star. Duplicate flower again – image flip, and use to cover last star.

Merge the 3 flowers together and dropshadow.

Make sure you close off the L10 layer so it doesn’t show under the flowers

Set foreground colour to #232F2A and background to #C7C2A1

Make background gradient radial 45 degrees with 5 repeats.

L11 (fish without glow) –  Selections – select all – Selections – float – selections - defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with gradient.

Deselect

Effects – texture effects – blinds with settings 2   50  colour = black

Make sure both boxes are checked, and click OK.

Repeat blinds, but this time uncheck the horizontal box.

Inner bevel

Dropshadow

L12 (Pisces symbol) - Selections – select all – Selections – float – selections - defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with #232F2A

Inner bevel. Dropshadow.

Merge this layer down to L11

Sand -  Paste and move to bottom of tag. Sharpen

Drink 2 – Resize 30%

Sharpen. Dropshadow

Bottles – Resize 40% then 60%.

Sharpen. Dropshadow

Copy and paste main tube. Dropshadow

Make sure all template layers are deleted.

Using Dragonfly font, Foreground null, Background #232F2A, type words as shown.

Inner bevel. Dropshadow.

I used the same font for my name

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.