Queen of the Sea

Supplies needed:
Filters Unlimited 2
VM Natural - Sparkle
Supply folder
PSP, 9, X or XI
Animation Shop

Open the tubes and duplicate them and close out the originals

• Open a new transparent image 500 X 500 pixels and minimize it.
• Now open a 2 transparent images of 221 X 194
• Select your dropper tool and select 2 colors from your tube, right click for the background and left lick for the foreground
• Now flood fill one of the smaller canvases with one of your colors
• Go to effects – plug in's – I.C.Net Software – Filters Unlimited 2.0 – edges, square – square edge 16 and apply the effect, and do this also to the other one of the small canvases but with your other color that you selected.
• Now open up your 500 X 500 canvas, now copy the lighter square that you just made and paste it as a new layer, and place it kinda in the middle of your canvas, you can re position it later on.
• Now copy your dark square and place it down and to the right of the light square, now place another of the light squares on to your canvas, but more to the right and down some below the top of the first light square that you placed, and now copy the dark square again and paste it as a new layer, but up and to the right, see my example below. When you have them placed like you want them, merge visible.

• Now resize the ribbon flower tube to 56 X 69 and copy it, now paste it as a new layer, and place it towards the bottom left corner of the dark tile, the one that is near the bottom. Now do the same thing but place it on the top right corner of the dark square up near the top.
• Now merge visible
• Resize the mermaid tube to 299 X 475 pixels and copy it and paste it onto your canvas as a new layer.
• Now grab your freehand tool and start tracing the wings of the mermaid, now here is a tip, you will need to go close along the body and hair, but when you are up near the top, you don’t have to be so close to the wings. And you will need to use these settings : Selection type: mode to mode   Mode: replace    Feather: 0. Once you have drawn around one wing, press your SHIFT key and start the other one. Failure to press the SHIFT key on your keyboard will remove the “Marching Ants” from the other wing.
• When you finish tracing the wings, go to selection – promote selection to layer, now on your layer pallet, make the tube layer active, and hit your delete key, this will remove the wings off of the tube layer. Now select none. And move the tube layer to the top.
• Now add your text, create it as a vector, and place it near the bottom of the canvas.
• Now add a new raster layer, and start placing the sparkles onto the belt and bracelet of the mermaid. Now you are going to add 2 more raster layers, so you will not have to go back and do them after you add noise to the wings. And also that way you can see where you placed the other sparkles. Once you have your 3 layers of sparkles, highlight the layer with the wings on it.
• Now go to adjust – add/remove noise and use these settings: Uniform ticked, Monochrome checked, and 25%
• Now go to effects – plug ins – VM Natural – sparkle and put the size to about 16 and the random seed to about 33 and click ok.
• And repeat these steps with your text layer.
• Now hide the top 2 sparkle layers, and merge visible. And them copy and paste the layer that is visible over to AS. And then click your undo button until you have removed the noise on the wings.
• Now you are going to add the noise again, but this time increase the percentage to 30% and when you add the sparkle using the VM filter, change the random seed to like 50, now hide the first and third sparkle layers, and merge visible and then copy it and paste it over to Animations shop after current frame.
• Now once again click your undo button in PSP until the noise of the wings is not there anymore, and you are going to do the same step as before but changing the percentage of noise to 35% and the random seed of the VM sparkle filter to about 62.  And this time you are going to hide the first 2 sparkle layers and merge visible and copy the visible layer over to animation shop like before.
• And now just animate it and save it and you’re done!!

This tutorial was written on May 30,2007 and any similarities are just by chance. This tutorial is the sole property of Sweet Angel's Designs and may not be translated without prior permission . I do not claim any copyright to any tube that I may use in my tutorials, that remains to the original artist of the tube.