Amberly

Got this beautiful Amberly Berendson tube from ATA
If you use this tube, please put the © sign on it, like my finished picture

Ok....let's get started...

You will need PSP

Preset Shape, which is included in the zip file

The tube, sbp preset and shape HERE

Put the tube in a folder of your choice....your sbp preset in the folder SuperBlade Pro/environments & Images folder

And your shape in your psp files....preset shapes...

Open new image 600x600 ( I like to start big :-)

Foreground Nil....Background White

Using your Preset Shape tool, find 'altemusBordersFour shape and draw a big shape like this....

Selections....Select All....Selections...Float....Selections...Defloat

Go to Effects....Flaming Pear....Superblade Pro and find the tropical effluvium.q5q....

click OK

Selections....Select None...

Open Amberly's nymph....Edit Copy (Ctrl+C)

Back to your image and Edit Paste (Ctrl+V)

While on your tube layer go to Image....Resize...75%....All Layers NOT checked

Place it like my finished tag....

Still on your tube layer....select your Freehand Selection Tool...

On your layers palette, set the opacity of your tube to 40

Go with your freehand tool around her leg on both sides....and click 'delete'.....selections...select none...

Do the same with a bit around her hair....selections...select none...

Layers Palette....put the opacity back to 100....zoom in and delete any stray pixels....

Layers....merge visable....

Nearly there :-)

Layers....new raster layer....

Choose a font....set your foreground to NIL and background to white....place your text where you want..

Selections...select all...selections...float....selections....defloat (if you have your text set as floating...ignore this)

Go to effects....Superblade Pro and use the same preset....OK

Effects...3Deffects....drop shadow....black -1...1....100....1

Layers...merge visable and save as a .png or .gif to keep it transparent....

Voila!

Hope you like this tutorial :-)