A quickie tutorial

SUPPLIES NEEDED

PSP X2 (Any version will work)

TUBE OF CHOICE

I use artwork by Ismael Rac & you can get a licence at AMI HERE

Nicole's Template 112, thank you Nicole and you can get it HERE

Palm Trees from Melissa's Template54, thank you Melissa and you can get it HERE

I used water and starfish & shells string from Tropicana Collab scrapkit, it is PTU and you can get HERE

WSL_MASK94 by Weescotlass (Chelle) and you can get it HERE

Eye Candy 4000 - Gradient Glow

I used Rob's Inspiration & FFF Urban fonts

Open the template

Delete the credit layer & 700 x 700 Canvas Size

Click on the shape layer. Go to Material properties, change the foreground to #36d3fe and background to #FFFFFF then change it to gradient and use these settings shown below. Select all, float, defloat and flood fill it with the gradient, select none and go to Eye Candy 4000 - Gradient Glow, apply with these settings shown below. Apply dropshadow with these settings of V & H - 1, Opacity - 40 and Blur - 4.00.

Click on the shape layer again, open up Melissa's template54 and click on the palm trees, copy it and paste it onto the gradient filled shape layer, move it up to the top left and go to Adjust - Brightness/Contract & use these settings of Brightness -255 and Contract 0 then change the blend mode to soft light. Back on the original shape layer, select all, float, defloat, invert and back on the palm trees layer hit delete. Close Melissa's template.

Click on small circle layer, select all, float, defloat and flood fill it with #36d3fe. Keep it selected, open up a beach image of choice and copy & paste it as a new layer and change the blend mode to luminance (l) or soft light then lower it to 50 or to your choice. Apply gradient glow and dropshadow with the same settings as before.

Click on large circle layer, select all, float, defloat, add a new layer and flood fill it with the same gradient fill but invert box checked. Go to Adjust - Add Noise - Uniform 25% and Monochrome checked. Apply gradient glow and dropshadow to it.

Click on square 1 layer, select all, float, defloat, add a new layer and flood fill it with gradient fill but change the Repeats to 3. Open the tube, copy & paste as a new layer and duplicate it 3 times, move the other 2 to above the square 2 & 3 layers. Back on the square 1 layer, select all, float, defloat and invert then go back on the tube layer above the square 1 layer and hit delete. Select none, duplicate it and on the duplicated tube go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - 3.00 and apply then change the blend mode to Screen. On the original tube change the blend mode to luminace (l). Repeat this with the other two square fills and the tubes.

On your preshape tool, select the rectangle shape, width 10 and on the material properties close off the background and keep the gradient foreground open, draw it around the top square and grab your deform/pick tool move it so it could fit onto the square fill nicely. Apply noise, gradient glow and dropshadow with the same settings as before. Duplicate it two times, I mirrored the middle frame on mine and move it slightly with the deform/pick tool.

Open your tube, copy & paste as a new layer and apply dropshadow to it. Open up the water element, copy & paste as a new layer and resize it then place it at the bottom of the tag and erase the water leftovers from both sides. I colorised mine using Colorize's Hue 138 and Saturation 254 settings. Open the string with the shells and star fish, resize it, colorize it and apply dropshadow.

Click on the back ground layer, add a new layer and flood fill it with #36d3fe then apply WSL_MASK94 and merge groups.

Grab your text tool, I used Al Sandra font and type in your name then convert it to raster layer, apply noise, gradient glow and dropshadow with the same settings as before.

Resize and crop it, save it as .jpeg or .png image.

Yay you're all done!

Hope you enjoyed my tutorial

Hugs Salsa