Under The Sea

For this tutorial you will need:

A tube of choice, I am using the art of Alex Prihodko, to use this tube you will need to purchase it from pics for designs here

The beautiful  IB Anna Liwanag 2015 kit by Ladyhawwk here

Mask 06 & 19 by me here & here

Put the masks into your mask folder.

Open a blank canvas, 600 x 600, flood fill with white.

Go to Layers, new raster layer,  selections, select all, copy and paste Paper 1 into selection

Go to layers load/save mask, load mask from disk, choose MD_14-19 from the drop down menu, apply with the following settings, source luminance checked, fit to canvas checked, hide all mask checked,

Go to image, resize and resize by 103 %, resample using smart size, resize all layers unchecked.

Repeat the last step but using mask MD_14_06.

Open Ele 18, copy and paste as a new layer, go to resize and resize by 78% using same settings as before.

Open frame 1, copy and paste as a new layer, go to resize and resize by 40%,  activate the magic want, tolerance and feather both set to 0, click inside the frame, go to selections, modify and modify by 5 pixels,

Open paper 4, copy and paste as a new layer on to your canvas, move this layer below the frame layer, keep selected copy and paste your tube or close up of choice, arrange to your liking, then go to selections, invert, then hit delete on your keyboard, activate the paper 4 layer and hit delete again, go to selections, select none.

With the tube layer active, lower the opacity of this layer to around 72, then go to layer, duplicate on the duplicate layer change the blend mode to screen or soft light which ever compliments your tube, on the original tube layer, go to adjust, blur, gaussian blur, set radius to 3 and appl, go to effects, drop shadow and add the following drop shadow to this layer, H4, V-4, opacity 45 blur 8 and color black.

Add the same drop shadow to the frame layer.

Open Ele 11, copy and paste as a new layer.

Open Ele 4, copy and paste as a new layer on to your canvas, go to image, resize, resize by 45%, add a drop shadow (the same drop shadow settings are used throughout) arrange at the bottom right of the frame.

Open Ele 27, go to image, resize and resize by 60% add a drop shadow, arrange at the bottom right of the frame.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, resize and arrange to your liking, one happy duplicate this layer, change the duplicate tube layer mode to screen or soft light which ever you prefer, then add a drop shadow the original layer.

Open Ele 8, go to image, resize and resize by 30%, add a drop shadow, arrange at the bottom right of the frame.

Addyour name and copyright info, delete the white background layer and resize if required. Your done!