Creative Discovery in PaintShop Pro
Project 11

Including content to Lesson 26

You will need these supplies:-
PSP Images & Corner

Project 11 Zip File

Download, then unzip to a folder where you store your psp images & Corners.
There is also a .bmp file which is a texture, so place this in the textures folder

I have also used the Plaid Texture.
If you don't have it, I have zipped it for you on the Level 2 Downloads Page

You will also need this Image from Pixabay

First - Wait for the Video player to load
Then - You need to watch the video before doing lesson below - it has a lot more important information and explanations for you
You may do the lesson as you watch the video though
Also - Click the full screen button on the player to watch it full screen or you may not see all of the settings properly

1. BACKGROUND & TEXTURED LAYER

Resize the Leaves image by 40% and Sharpen
Right click on the Background layer in the layer palette and Promote Background Layer - now Raster 1
Add a New Raster Layer and move it underneath Raster 1

Activate the Dropper Tool and Choose a Dark Green, then lighten it OR use my colour #b5c39b - Place this into the Foreground Box
Place White in the Background box.
Flood fill the Bottom Layer - Raster 2 - with the light green. Check your layer palette to see if Raster 2 is now Green.

Go to the Texture icon and locate Plaid Click OK
Activate Raster 1
Change the Blend Mode above the Layer Palette to Luminance (Legacy)
Lower the Opacity to around 25


Add a New Raster Layer
Click on the White in your Background Box and your Material Properties window will open
Click on the Texture Tab at the top and then tick the Add texture box
Locate the winni.texture.74 texture and click on it
~ Angle = 0
~ Scale = 50
Click OK


Flood Fill the empty layer with that White Swirly texture


Resize that layer by 90% and Sharpen

2. CUTOUT PIECES

Right click on the top of the Image (blue bar) and Click on Rulers
Activate the Selection Tool
Start at around (x:500 y:255)


Draw out your circle to (300, 55)
Release the mouse and hit the Delete key on your keyboard
Deselect

Change the Selection type to Rounded Rectangle - leave the other settings as they were
Start at around (x:100 y:55)
Draw out your rounded rectangle to (200, 455 )
Release the mouse and hit the Delete key on your keyboard
Deselect & Turn off the Rulers


Click OK
Reapply the Drop Shadow with Negative 2 in both Vertical and Horizontal

3. ADD LEAVES

Open the Acorn Leaves
Copy and Paste it as a New Layer
Resize to 80% and Sharpen
Mirror Horizontal and move it over the Left slightly to sit between the two cutout pieces.
Activate the Freehand Selection Tool and with a Feather of 35 draw around the end of the stalk
Hit the delete key on your keyboard twice & Deselect

Paste as a New Layer (the leaves should still be in memory)
Resize to 45% and Sharpen
Move it over to the Right bottom corner of the circle
Activate the Freehand Selection Tool and with a Feather of 35 draw around the end of the stalk
Hit the delete key on your keyboard twice & Deselect


Close Raster 1, 2 & 3
Merge Visible (the top leaves should still be active)
Apply the same drop Shadow as before and Open the layers

4. BORDERS

Activate the Dropper tool and pick a dark green from the leaves for the Background box
Make sure everything is in place before we add the borders
Add a Dark Green border of 2 pixels
Add a White border of 2 pixels
Add a Dark Green border of 2 pixels

Click on the Pattern in the Foreground box and search for the image you are working on
Select that and set the Angle = 0 and the Scale = 45 & Click OK
Add a border of 20 pixels - any colour
Activate the Magic Wand (Contiguous ticked & NO feathering) and Click in the 20 Pixel Border
Flood Fill with the Pattern
Apply Kaleidoscope Effect - use the Default settings, but change the number of petals to 2
Click OK

Click OK
Deselect

5. CORNERS

Bring up the corners - Copy Raster 3 & Paste as a New Layer
Sharpen
Activate the Move tool and to the top Left Corner, inside the border sitting against the edge


Apply the same Drop Shadow as before

Duplicate the Layer & Mirror Horizontal
Close Background Layer and Merge Visible
Duplicate the Merged Layer
Mirror Vertical and Merge Visible
Open the Background Layer
Change the Blend Mode to Luminance

6. WORD ART & SQUIRRELS

Open the word art - moment__hl.psp - Copy and Paste as a New Layer
Move it to the top and place it over the textured layer
Change the Blend Mode to Luminance (Legacy)


Bring up the Squirrels - Copy and Paste as a New Layer
Move them to the bottom so that the right squirrel's back foot is sitting on top of the inside of the circle


Apply a Drop Shadow.
Click OK
Deselect

Merge Visible

7. SUNBURST

Go to Effects > Illumination > Sunburst

Use the following settings Click OK


Save this as YourName-Project11a


Now find images and Corners for your own creation based on this tutorial
Must include the following:-
Save this as YourName-Project11b

Here is another example that I have done.



You can go straight to the forum to post your lessons Click HERE

LESSON REQUIREMENTS

1. Squirrels Image - YourName-Project11a

2. Your Own Choice - YourName-Project11b

Your PDF file is HERE

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