Mystical Marine

Supplies Needed: 

Psp

Tube of choice. I am using a tube by Serg Grafik. Purchase it: here

Scrap kit Mystical (PTU) by A tagger Scraps here 

Forum set template 006 by me in PSP here and PSD here  **new link here

Animation by Janice : lightening bugs  here

Font here

Open the template. Duplicate and close the original file.

Activate the layer: Background. With the magic wand, click inside.

Open the paper: paper13. c/p in the canvas, resize at 80 percent (smart size). Selections - Invert. Edit - Clear.

Open the closeup of the tube, c/p in the canvas, resize if needed. Place it in the left side. Remove the excess.

Duplicate.  Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur:

Radius: 3

In the layer palette change the blend mode to: Screen. Opacity: 70.

Activate the original layer and Add drop shadow:

V: 3 H: 4

O: 55 B: 5

Open: glyph1. c/p in the canvas, resize at 50 percent (smart size). place it a lil behind the tube.

Open: book. c/p in the canvas, resize at 50 percent (smart size). place it below the glyph.

Open: Moon. c/p in the canvas, move it to the left side of the banner, place it in the right side.

Open: glyph3. c/p in the canvas, resize at 60 percent (smart size). place it in the right bottom corner.

Open: deco5. c/p in the canvas, move it to the left side of the banner, place it behind the tube.

you'll have something like this:

Add more elements the banner:

bottle

bow6

box

butterflies2

butterfly

candles

cat

deco8

flowers4

glassball

leaves

lights

mask

Always: Resize, sharpen and place as desire. 

Add drop shadow:

V: 2 H: 2

O: 40 B: 4

Activate the layer: diamond lines

Change the color if it's needed. Add drop shadow:

V: 1 H: 2

O: 60 B: 5

In the layer palette change the blend mode to: Burn.

Activate the layer: wordart 1. Selections -  All - Float -  Defloat.

Add a new layer.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye candy 5: Impact - Glass

Delete the layer wordart 1 or leave it. 

Activate the layer: frame 1.

Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise:

Random

50 percent

Monochrome

Add copyright and your name. Export as a png or jpg now, to have a non animated banner.

Now you can start to merge the background with the glyphs, deco and diamond lines. Rename it:  1.

In the layer palette click in the eye (visibility toogle) to close it.

Merge all the above layers, included tube, frame, wordarts, elements. 

Rename it: 2.

In the layer palette, open (click) the eye of the layer 1

To animate:

Copy the layer: 1. Open Animation Shop. Paste as a new animation. Duplicate until you have 22 frames.

Activate the first frame and select all.

Open: lighteningbugsjek.mng. click in the first frame, Edit -  Select All. 

Animation -  Cull Animation.

Apply Cull animation again, but change the: 2  for every 3 frames. You'll have 22 frames now.

Activate the first frame and select all.

Drag it into the background and place it where you like it. 

Back to psp. Copy the layer: 2. In animation shop, paste as a new animation. Duplicate until you have 22 frames.

Activate the first frame and select all. Carefully drag it into the first frame of the main animation.

Play the animation. If you like save and you're done.