Making Tentacles

[Carrie]

1) Creat new file (ctrl+n) White BG

2)
First, creat new layer
using your polygonal lasso tool draw a triangle
Go to Edit>fill
And fill it with your color of choice.

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3)Deselect the tentacle

go to Filter>Distort>Shear

On the line in the box move the line around until it looks wiggled.


4) Ctrl+ click tentacle in the layer pallette to hilight the tentacle. Fill with copper Gradient. Draw as shown in picture below.

Got to layers>Adjustments>Curves
input 57
output 46

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5) Create New Layer.
Fill with the transparent/white gradient, in the same manner as above.
Go to Filter>Blur>Guassian blur
Use the settings: Blur 5.4 PX

6) link both layers, then merge linked.

Click on the tentacle layer, go to blending options.

Using the following settings :
Inner shadow : 100% opac
Distance 1
size 13

Play with a drop shadow if you prefer until you find something you like.

To change the color of you tentacle, got to
Layers>Adjustments>Hue and saturation until you find something your happy with.