PTU - Beach Blast

This tutorial was written by me on April 19th, 2013. Please do not claim as your own. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

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Mask Of Choice 

Scrap Kit - PTU kit by Pandora Designs Called Beach Blast

You can purchase this kit at any of the stores she sells at on her blog. 

Click here to vist her blog.

Font Of Choice 

Tube Of Choice - Artwork of Keith Garvey. You must have the proper license to use his work.

You can visit his store here.

Program - Gimp 2.6..but any program will do.

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Open New Canvas

I did 650x650.you can resize it at the end if you would like.

Open Mask

Right click on your layers 

Go down to alpha by selection

Edit > fill w/ BG color - Make sure color is #FFFFFF

Open Paper 2

Right click on your layers

Click add layer mask

Then a window will pop up 

then click black (full transparency)

Then click add

Edit > Copy 

Edit > Paste

On Layers > click on floating selection

Then right click on layers

scroll down to anchor layer

Delete first layer!!!

You should have a mask..then a black square next to it on your layers.

Image > Merge Visible Layers 

Box should pop up..click clipped to image > Merge

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Ready...

Set...

Go...

Open frame2

Use your ellipse tool and make a ellipse on paper8

Copy

Paste as new layer inside frame2

Open These Elements and use the same dropshadow as above and resize to your liking!!!

Beach Chair

Bubbles

Camera

Can

Cloud

Glasses3

Palm Tree

Sand (duplicate 1x)

Sand Castle

Soda2

Sun

Tanning Lotion

Tropical Drink

Open up the close up of your tube. 

Duplicate tube

Filters > Enhance > Unsharp Mask

Now you are going to work on the duplicated tube layer.

Change mode to screen

Filters > Distorts > Blinds > 

Change mode to these settings.

Vertical 

Displacements - 38

Number of Segments - 12

Now dropshadow your elements with these settings.

Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 66

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Now resize your tag to 600x600 if you would like. 

When you are happy with your tag..

Add Copyright!!

Add Name!!

Merge All Layers!

Save!

Enjoy!!

Hope you enjoyed my tutorial.