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Growing up in the
south dogwoods have always been a favorite of mine. I hope
you will enjoy this
tutorial.
Yes, you will be
using vectors, but nothing to hard. *L*
All images have
been resized and compressed to save on load time.
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Items needed...
PSP 6 or 7.
Unzip Drift wood
to your patterns folder in PSP.
Unzip center for
dogwood and open in PSP.
Let's get started...
Open a 400x400 transparent 16 million colors.
Set you background
color to white, foreground Null, click on your preset tools.
Ellipse, Antialias
and create as a vector both checked. Solid line.
Draw out a circle
about the size of a quarter. Hum, not sure what size to say for
those that aren't
familiar with US currency *L* take your index finger and your thumb
and touch them together
to form sort of a circle, that would be about the size unless
you have really
long fingers *L*
Click on the object
selector then right click on you palette and click node edit.
What we want is
to turn our circle in to is sort of a heart but not as heart shaped
defined as a true
heart would be. Add two nodes, one on each side of the top
node. Pull the middle
top node down just a little to get a hump in the center. Pull the
bottom node down.
You should have something that looks like this
Convert to raster layer.
Go to Selections,
Select All, Sections Float. You know have the ants marching around your
petals.
Click on the paint
brush, with these settings draw just a small line at the hump in your petal.
Like this...
Do not deselect.
Add a new layer,
go to Effects, 3D Effects, Cutout with these settings apply..
Deselect. Hide layer1 and merge visible.
Go to Layers, Layer Duplicate, Image, Flip. Place petals end to end.
Go to Layers, Duplicate,
Image Rotate, Set Rotation to 90 degrees, right.
Move into position
so that it over laps slightly the other two petals.
Layer Duplicate,
Image, Mirror. Move into position as you did the other.
You should now have
something that looks like this...
Hide Layer 1 and
merge all layers Visible.
Remember the center
for the dogwood I had you open?
Make it active then
go to Edit, Copy. Make your dogwood active then go to Edit, Paste, Paste
as New Layer. Move
into position so that it is in the center of your petals. You may need
to use the deformation
tool to resize. If you do remember to sharpen once resized.
Here is mine at
this stage...
Hide layer one and
merge visible, rename if you wish. I recommend that you now copy the layer
with your dogwood
bloom, paste as new IMAGE and export as a tube. It makes it easier to add
the blooms once
we have our branch made.
Now on to making the branch....
Open New Image 600x400
transparent. Add a New Layer.
Set your foreground
color to the Drift wood you put in your patterns folder at the start.
Set Scale to 65
percent, angle 343. Background Null.
Click on the Draw
tool using these settings...
Yep, that's set to freehand! *L* Don't panic it's not that hard!
About 3 or 4 of the
squares(the transparent ones on your palette) up from the left bottom
Draw a line angling
up till you reach about 3/4 of the palette. Something like this...
See it doesn't have to be straight, you actually want it crooked.
Now change the size
of your Draw tool to 14 and lets draw 2 branches off our
main branch. (Look
at the pic below.) Once you have those two drawn change the
size of the draw
tool again to 9 and draw 3 or 4 smaller branches off those
and off the larger
main branch at the top.
I have color coded
the sizes in the image below so that you can better see the
size you will be
drawing the different branches with. Yours of course will be in
the draft wood pattern....
Once you are happy
with your branches, go to Selections, Select All, Selections, Float.
Go to Effects, 3D
Effects, Inner Bevel with these settings...
Deselect.
Add a New Layer
and lets start placing our blooms on our branch.
Click on your tubes
and find the dogwood bloom you tubes earlier. Size
it to around 20
or so depending on how large your original was. Place several
on different parts
of the branch at that angle. Add new Layers as you go and
use your deformation
tool to change the angle and perspective on the bloom,
(remember to put
a few blooms behind the branches also) until you have your
branch filled up
like you want it.
You're finished.
You can merge all Layers Visible copy and paste as new layer to remove
any excess. If you
want to save as transparent it is best to save as an export gif.
Hope you enjoyed
this tutorial.
Until next time,
God Bless,
Connie
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