Animated Mermaid.

15) Turn off the visibility of Layer 0

16) Press the delete key on your keyboard and your mermaids tail will disappear...don't worry, we want it to lol

17) Click on the canvas that has your mermaids tail and click on the copy icon. Now click back on your mermaid and go to Edit > Paste > As New Layer. Use the mover tool to position the mermaids tail back on her body.

18) We now have to get rid of the gap we've got, to do this, we're going to use the clone tool with the following options

19) Right click on an area you want to copy (see the red x on the screenshot)

 now left click in the gap and the clone tool will 'paint' in the colours.

Continue 'painting' until it's all filled in.

20) This is what you'll have now.

21) We've now got 3 layers....the bottom layer is the original mermaid, the middle layer is the mermaid with her tail chopped off! and the top layer is her rotated tail. Turn off the visibility of the bottom layer

22) Right click on the middle layer and go to Merge > Merge Visible

23) Here's what your layer palette should now look like

and here's how your mermaid looks with both layers visible

Time to add your text.

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Tutorial written by Shell © 2004.