Beach Babe

***Tutorial Beach Babe By JackieBeth, written on July 22, 2010***
**SAVE PROGRESS OFTEN**
***add drop shadows and resize/recolor when you see fit***

Items Needed
Paint Shop Pro/version PSPX was used to create this tutorial
Animation Shop
tube/image of choice
Artist I Used: Ismael Rac  

you MUST purchase a license at SNC HERE to use his work

filter Xero/Porcelain
filter Xero/Fritillary
filter DSB Flux/Bright Noise
filter Xero/Radiance
filter Eye Candy 5000/Texture Noise
filter AAA Frames/Foto Frame
 font of choice/font used in this tutorial: "Macha Cow"
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open a blank transparent canvas size 550 by 250
copy and paste tube of choice to canvas
apply filter Xero/Porcelain: change blue to 0

crop entire canvas to size
with your dropper tool select a color from your tube
add a new raster layer, move below tube layer
flood fill with chosen color

apply filter Xero/Fritillary

Granularity 9
Aggression 30
Tesselation 10
Variation 77

effects/texture effects/mosaic glass

number of 31
number of rows 31
symmetric checked
glass curvature 0
edge curvature 2
grout width 0
grout diffusion 22

effects/distortion/pixelate

block width and height 4

apply filter DSB Flux/Bright Noise: mix, 25

select your tube layer
duplicate
select your bottom tube layer
adjust/blur/gaussian blur 10

effects/texture effects/straw wall

blur 40
density 15
length 14
width 1
transparency 0
color black
angle 100

duplicate your background

effects/texture effect/straw wall
same settings as before

apply filter Xero/Radiance: default settings
change blend mode to hard light
close tube and tube straw layer
merge visible

unhide your straw tube and regular tube layers

select your preset shape tool
set at rectangle
foreground color null, background black
draw out a rather thin rectangle horizontally across your canvas
make sure it goes over both ends
center in canvas and covert to raster layer
move layer between your background and straw tube

effect/distortion effect/wave

horizontal displacement
amplitude 0
wavelength 1
vertical displacement
amplitude 6
wavelength 34
transparent bubble selected

move toward bottom of canvas
free rotate left 7 degrees
duplicate
move one wave layer above, leaving a wide enough gap for a phrase
merge the two wave layers together
crop canvas to size

move colored layer below wave layers

with magic wand select in between the two wave layers
selections/modify/expand/3 pixels
add new layer
flood fill with same color as background

select your fill wave layer
apply filter DSB Flux/Bright Noise: mix, 35

select your fill layer
selections/select all/float/defloat
add a new raster layer
flood fill with black
deselect

select your wave layer
selections/select all/float/defloat
add a new raster layer
flood fill color as background
selections/select none

apply filter AAA Frames/Foto Frame to your background layer
and your tube layers
width 10, opacity 75

now we are going to put the top of the wave and the wave line into selections
select your magic wand tool and set at free hand selections
draw around a small portion of you wave and wave line layers

select the top portion of the wave line
right click on layer palette
promote select to layer
go down to the original red wave line
press delete on keyboard
do the same for the wave fill
do that step until you have between 4-7 selections
depends how many you want to do

as you go name each selection
such as the first wave line you could name Line 1
for the wave fill you could name Wave 1

when animating it will be easier to know what to close and open

when you have all your selections make sure you have no layers hidden
crop entire canvas to size

now its time to animate
with nothing hidden copy merged
in animation shop paste as a new animation

back in psp hide line 1 and wave 1
copy merged
in animation shop paste after current frame

back in psp hide line 2 and wave 2
copy merged
in animation shop paste after current frame

repeat the following steps until all lines and waves have been used

change frame property of frame 1 to 125

if you wish for the animation to go back and forth in psp unhide the line and wave layer backwards and continue to copy and paste as new frame
if you do the back and forth way make sure the middle frame is set at 125

apply all proper credits
add names/phrases as you wish