Summer in Shades FTU

Summer in Shades

I used the wonderful artwork called Spring by Ismael Rac which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase his tubes here

I am using a FTU scrapkit called Beautiful Summer by Scraps by Pam which can be found here 

Font of Choice  

Mask of Choice  

The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.

Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.

Let's get started!!

Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.

Copy & paste paper 4 from the scrapkit onto your new image and apply your mask of choice.  (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load) In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer merge merge group.  

Open water2 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of your mask and at the top

Open sand2 and copy & paste to your image  place on the bottom of your water

Open sand copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place it in the bottom right corner of sand2

Open clouds copy & paste to your image and place across the top of your mask and water

Open flower3  copy & paste to your image dupicate x1 and place one in the top left corner of your mask and on just below that on the left also

Open starfish copy & paste to your image and place on your sand

Open lighthouse copy & paste to your image and place it with the bottom on top part of your sand and about in the middle of your water

Open mermaid copy & paste to your image resize by 53% and place on the right side of your lighthouse

Open frame2 copy & paste to your image move it between your lighthouse & flowers  Using your magic wand with the following settings

click inside your frames and expand your selections with the following settings

Open paper10 copy and paste to your image - go to selections invert and hit delete on your keyboard.  Selections select none Move this layer below your frame.

Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed (I did not resize)   Move this layer below your frame  Using your magic wand with the same setting as above click anywhere on your image (make sure you are on your tube layer) then click selections invert selections float selections defloat Take you eraser tool and then click on your frame layer and erase any part of the frame that you want your tube to show then hit selection select none  Take your eraser tube again and carefully erase the part of the tube that shows below the bottom of the frame

Open radio copy & paste to your image resize by 34% and place it in the bottom right corner of your frame

Open gecko copy & paste to your image resize by 34% and place on the bottom left corner of your frame

Open chair & umbrella copy & paste to your image resize by 57% and place on the bottom right corner of your sand

Open bottle copy & paste to your image resize by 34% and place in the middle of your sand

Open drink copy & paste to your image resize by 34% and place on the sand next to you chair

Add a dropshadow of your choice to your  frame and tube(or anything your want)

 Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!

I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!