Resize by 85%, Duplicate, and drag one layer below your frame layer.Click on the top tube layer to make active, using your freehand lasso tool circle what youwant hidden beneath the frame. Hit delete on your keyboard. Go to your top tool bar,Selections, Select None to deactivate. Now go to your lower tube layer and do the samething along the frame to get rid of any excess showing on that piece. Same Process: hitdelete on your keyboard and select none.Open your elements of choiceI used Leaves7 and paste as a new layer. Go to your top tool bar, Image, Free rotate,Right by 90 degrees and drag this layer below your frame layer, see mine to reference.Duplicate. Keep this new duplicate layer active, top tool bar, Image, Mirror. Then Image,Flip. Use your lasso tool and circle around the stem sticking out on both layers and hitdelete on your keyboard. Selections, Select None.I decided to add a skull to the tube as well. Open the DiamsSkull, and resize by 15%,image sharpen. Copy and paste as a new layer, and move up above the top tube layer and place in her hair. Now to add your “Voodoo Queen” font at the bottom. I used font A&S California Plug,font size 72, stroke width 3, foreground color code: #6b6e5b and foreground your background paper: pp32. Add a drop shadow. Drag this layer under your flower but aboveyour frame layer. See mine to reference.*Or you can use my word art provided in my supplies. Now using a font of your choice, preferably a soft beautiful flowy font. I used A&S Black Swan: type out your name using font size 60, foreground color code: #6b6e5b and background color code #d02a74. Rotate with your pick tool, so it’s up on the frame layer,see mine to reference. Now add your copyright and watermark.If you want to skip the animation, save as a JPG or PNG now.
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I used Alien Skin Xenofex 2-Constellation for this effect.Click on your top tube layer to make active. Duplicate this layer 3 times.Hide your main layer.Label the others as 1, 2 and 3. Now click on the top layer 3 to make active.Using your free hand selection tool, select the hair pieces you want on her to have thiseffect.If you would like to choose more than one at a time, hold down the shit key as your selectyour selections. Leave your selections active.3
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