Pool Party

Supplies Needed:

Psp (I have used X3)

Tube of choice. Art by Jose Cano, pruchase it here

Scrap kit (PTU) Grillin Girlfriends by Jackies Jewels (part of a collab): here

Font here

Open a new image: 650x600

Open: pool. c/p in the canvas, resize at 85 percent (smart size).

Place it at the bottom.

Open the tube. I'm using a half tube, c/p in the canvas and resize if needed.

Place it above the pool. 

Activate the selection tool:

Make a selection here:

hit Delete key (in your keyboard) or Edit - Clear, twice.

Open: ball2. c/p in the canvas, resize 45 percent (smart size).

place it above the pool, and with the selection tool (same settings used)

remove a small part of the bottom.

Open: grass. c/p in the canvas, duplicate several times to cover the bottom part of image.

Merge down all theses layers, with the lasso tool:

make a irregular selection around the grass to remove the edges.

Open: innertube2. c/p in the canvas, resize 35 percent (smart size).

Place it above the grass next to the water slide.

Open: beer. c/p in the canvas, resize 40 percent (smart size). 

Place it above the grass in the right side. Duplicate. resize 90 percent (smart size). 

Move it a little to the front.

Add more elements the tag:

cloud

hamburguer

pinwheel1

pinwheel2

tree

umbrella

wordart

Always: Resize, sharpen and place as desire. 

Add drop shadow:

V: 0 H: 2

O: 40 B: 5

Add copyright and your name. Merge Visible, copy and paste as new image. Export as a png or jpg.

Summer Vibes

Supplies Needed:

Psp

Animation Shop

Tube of choice. I am using a tube by VeryMany from a PP at PFD. Find the tubes: here

Scrap kit Toes in the sand (PTU) by Jackies Jewels here

Wordart 004 by me:  PSP here and PSD  here  **new link here

Font here

Open a new image: 600x200

with the magic wand click inside of the canvas.

Open the paper: Paper1. c/p in the canvas, image - resize: 70 percent (smart size). Selections  - Invert. Edit - Clear.

Open: Sun. c/p in the canvas, image - resize: 50 percent (smart size). Place it in the center and above the paper.

Open: Ocean, c/p in the canvas, place it like this:

Open: RockCave. c/p in the canvas, image - resize: 70 percent (smart size). Move it to the right side of the canvas.

Duplicate and arrange it like this:

Open: PalmTree2. c/p in the canvas, move it to the left side, send the layer below the rockcave.

Open: Dolphin. c/p in the canvas, image - resize: 35 percent (smart size). Place it in the right side behind the rockcave.

Open the tube, c/p in the canvas, resize if needed. Place it in the right side of the canvas.

Add more elements into the banner:

AsstShells2

clouds

Cocktail1

Flower2

Flower3

Flowers2

Palms

SeaTurtle

Shell3

Starfish1

Starfish2

Always: Resize, sharpen and place as desire. 

Add drop shadow:

V: 1 H: 2

O: 40 B: 4

Add copyright and your name. Make a frame. Export as a jpg or png now if you want a non animate banner.

To animate:

Activate the ocean layer. Remove the excess outside of the banner if it's needed. 

copy, Open Animation Shop. Paste as a new animation.

Effects - Insert Image Effects - Select: underwater:

Apply and delete the last frame.You have 15 frames now. put aside, we will use it later.

Back to psp, you have two options, merge the paper, sun, clouds and ocean or merge: paper, sun and clouds but delete the ocean layer 

and only use the animated one we made in animation shop.

Rename this group of layers as: 1. In the layer palette, close the visibility toogle.

Start to merge all the above layers, included the elements, tube and frame.

Rename this group of layers as: 2.

In the layer palette, Click in the eye and open the visibility toogle. copy merged. Go to Animation Shop.

paste as a new image. Duplicate until you have 15 frames. 

Activate the first frame and select all. Select all the layers from the ocean animation you did before. Drag it into the background, place it almost in the center.

Back to psp,  Copy the layer: 2. In animation shop, paste as a new animation. Duplicate until you have 15 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. I've changed the speed of mine to: 20