FTU Club Tropicana

Club Tropicana was written by me on 13th April 2013. It is my own idea and creation. Any similarity to any other tag or tutorial is co incidental.

Supplies Needed

Tube of choice. I have used 'Diana' the gorgeous artwork of VeryMany  HERE

Ftu Scrap kit.. Catch a wave sampler by Jessica at Gothic Inspirations  HERE

Wsl Mask 98 by Chelle  HERE

Remember to leave the designer a little love when snagging their fab freebies .

Plug Ins Used
Xero- Radiance (optional)

Open a new image 700 x 700. C/paste frame 1. Re size to 70%. Position frame approximately 2 thirds of the way down the page. Take the magic wand tool and click in centre of frame to float. Selections modify-expand by 2. Paste paper 5 re sized to 18%. Position below selection and invert and delete. Select none. Move this layer below frame.

C/paste Ocean element re sized to 75%. Position above lower half of frame and drop shadow. Above this C/Paste sand Element. Re size to 90%, rotate left by 4. Adjust gaussian blur by 3. C/Paste Cloud element re sized to 75%. Position behind top half of frame. See image below, this is what you should have now.

C/paste your tube and position in the centre of frame. Apply radiance to suit your image and add a drop shadow. Work remaining desired elements from kit around the tube and frame and drop shadow as desired.... I used

Palm. Re sized to 70%. Placed left of frame behind tube layer. Duplicate -mirror and position copy behind original and tube. Adjust gaussian blur by 1 and opacity to 80.

Bottles. Re size 40%. Placed left of frame above palm.

Sand. Re size 85%. Rotate left by 5.  Changed colour slightly using ..Adjust- color balance-manual color correction. Position above bottles and tube along bottom of frame. Handy if like me you have used a half tube and need to disguise where it ends.

Butterflies. Re sized to 50%. Placed left of tube above palm.

Sea Life. Re sized to 20%. Left of frame above Sand.

Lantern. Re sized 50%. Placed left above Sea Life.

Greenery. Re sized 40%. Left again, above lantern. use eraser tool to remove bottom of stem that exceeds below sea life.

Pattern. Re sized 40%. Top right of tag above cloud layer. Behind frame. Change blend mode to soft light.

Drink 2. Re sized 60%. Positioned right of frame beneath sand.

Leaves. Re size 40%. Rotate right by 15.  Bottom right of tag above drink.

Flower. Re size 40%. Image-mirror. Place right top of frame, behind drink. Duplicate and re size by 80%. Move down Slightly. Duplicate again re size by 80% and position bottom right above drink and leaves.

Bling. Re sized 50%. Rotate counter clockwise 90. Manual colour correction. Change the red to orange. Position right of tag above all other layers.

For the mask layer. Choose a paper from kit. ( I used Paper 1 ) Re size to 17%.  Rotate counter clockwise by 90 and C/paste as a new layer at the bottom of layer palette. Load mask from disk - Fit to layer. In layer palette, delete mask and merge group. Duplicate and merge down , repeat until its at the opacity you d prefer then re size to 110%. Use raster deform tool to stretch the edges out  a little and position as desired.

Merge all layers. Crop / re size and sharpen to your liking. Add name and relevant copyright and tube licence info. Save as PNG.

Thank you for stopping by and trying this tutorial. I hope you are pleased with your tag. 

Sal :)