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Here is a very fun tutorial for beginners. Follow the instructions closely and you will see a surprise at the end.

Tutorial

1. (Ctrl + N) to open a new image that is 200 pixels by 200 pixels; 72 resolution; RGB mode; and a white background.

2. Right click on the foreground color square on the tool bar.

3. Type in '000000' in the bottom field of the pop up window.

4. Next, select the paint bucket, and click in the white square; it should turn black.

5. Follow step 2 again; but this time type in 'FFFFFF' and click OK.

6. Select the text tool, select a font; click somewhere near the center of the background type your text. We will use the phrase 'red sea' for illustrative purposes.

7. Click on select menu and choose Load Selection.

8. Next, click on select and choose Save Selection.

9. Type in 'red sea outline' in 'Name' field.

10. Next, open the select menu and choose Deselect.

11. From the select menu choose 'Flatten Image'.

12. Open the 'Filter' menu and choose blur; select Gaussian. In the pop up window move the slider bar to the left until you get to 2.0. Click ok.

13. Open the 'Filter' menu again and choose Stylize then select wind from the left.

14. Right click on the Background and Duplicate the layer; click OK.

15. Select the Edit menu; click on Transform, and select 'Rotate 90 CW'.

16. Select the Filter menu. Wind should be at the top. Click on it.

17. Repeat 15 and 16 until there is wind from every side and the word 'red sea' is right side up.

18. Select 'Filter', then Distort, and choose 'Ocean Ripple'. Experiment with the slider bars until you get the desired effect. Click OK.

19. Choose Image, then Mode, then Grayscale. Select 'Flatten' in the pop up window.

20. From the Image meNu, select Mode, then Indexed Color.

21. Image menu, then Mode, then Color Table. In the pop up window, select Black Body from the drop down menu. You will now see a 'Red Sea'!

Congratulations! You've made the Red Sea!