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FTU Alluring Merman

This tutorial was written by me on May 18, 2014.

It was made out of my own creation and any similarity is purely coincidental.

I used pspx5 but any version should work without problems.

If you're doing this tutorial you must have good psp knowledge and be familiar with the tools.

Let's get started!

Artist: Merman by Arthur Crowe

Scrapkit: Sea Siren by Kittz Kreationz

Mask: 45 by me HERE

Font: New Century Schoolbook

*open your mask and minimize in your workspace*

c/p = copy and paste, ds = drop shadow 

File - New - 700x700 - flood fill w white

Open 30 - resize by 75% - sharpen - move to right a little - ds

Open 19 - c/p as new layer - ds

Click inside 19 w magic wand - expand by 15 - new layer

Open pp4 - c/p into selection - move under frame - deselect 

Go on 19

Open 4 - resize by 50% - c/p as new layer - ds

Open 49 - resize by 50% - sharpen - place to left - ds

Open 46 - resize by 50% 2x - sharpen - place to the right rotate a little bit

Open 25 - resize by 50% - sharpen - place to right - ds

Open 39 - place to the right - ds

Open 53 - place to the right - ds

Open 57 - resize by 50% 2x - sharpen - place to the right - ds

Open 26 - place to the right some - ds

Open 23 - place to the left - ds

Open 27 - move to the left some - ds

Open tube - resize to liking - c/p as new layer - place down some

Open 3 - resize by 50% 2x - sharpen - place to the bottom

Open 14 - resize by 50% 2x - sharpen - place to the bottom

Open 51 - resize by 50% - place to bottom - ds

Open 48 - resize by 50% 2x - sharpen - place to the bottom left - ds

Open 24 - resize by 50% 2x - sharpen - place to the bottom left - ds

Open 1 - resize by 50% 2x - sharpen - place to the bottom left - ds

Open 43 - resize by 65% - place to bottom - ds

On background layer

Click on background with magic wand - new layer

Open paper5 - c/p into selection - deselect

Layers - New mask layer - From Image

Find your mask in source window - hit ok

Merge group 

Change mask opacity to 69

Open 15 - place to bottom left - ds

duplicate 15 - mirror

Open 50 - resize by 85% - place to the bottom - ds

Delete background layer - merge visible

Adjust - Brightness and Contrast 

Local Tone Mapping - strength 3.0 - Block Size 14 - hit ok

Add credits and name