Supplies
Paint Shop Pro Trial Version Here
FM Tile Tools Plugin - Demo Version Here
Download Zip File
Unzip into a directory where you can easily find them.
Place the gold fill in your PSP Patterns folder.
Graphic of your choice or you can use mine.
Let's Get Started
2. Floodfill with black. Rename it background in the layer pallet. Note you can change the color at a later stage if you wish but the dark background makes it easier to do the painting later on.
3. Open the Rose Mask (ddd) in PSP.
4. Add a new raster layer and name it gold.
5. In the color pallet, with the foreground set to pattern floodfill with the gold fill. Scale 100 Angle 0.
6. Masks, New from Image and select the Rose Mask (ddd) which you opened earlier. Source luminance and invert mask data should be checked. Click ok.
7. Masks, Delete, Answer yes when asked if you wish to merge with the current layer.
8. Click on background in the layer pallet. Add a new layer and name it gradient.
9. Selections, Load from Disk, and load the GER.sel file.
10. Change the foreground/background colors. I used #cd9f88 foreground and #d3bead background.
11. On the color pallet, under styles, click on the arrow and choose gradient. Choose #1 foreground/background gradient with the settings below.
12. Floodfill with the gradient. Deselect.
13. In the layer pallet click on the background layer, add a new raster layer and name it roses.
14. Change foreground colour to #D86A44 (orange or a color of your choice)
15. Using paint brush, shape round, size 8, Hardness 100, Opacity 100, Step 25, Density 100, zoom in and paint inside the rose. It doesn't matter if you paint over the gold lines as they are on a layer above. Note it may be necessary to reduce the brush size to do some of the fine work.
16. Add a new raster layer and name it leaves. Change foreground color to #004000 (green) or a color of your choice) and brush size to 6. Paint the leaves.
17. Add a new raster layer and name it stems. Change foreground color to #012501 (dark green) or a color of your choice) and brush size to 4. Paint the stems and around the centre edge of the frame.
18. Click on gold layer in your layer pallet.
29. Go to effects, 3D effects, drop shadow and use these settings, Vertical 1 (one), horizontal -1 (minus one), opacity 100, blur 2.5.
20. Go to effects, plug in filters, fm tile tools, blend emboss and accept the default settings.
21. Open the black background image in PSP. Click on background in the layer pallet.
22. In the color pallet, with the foreground set to pattern, floodfill with the black texture (or whatever color you wish), Scale 100 Angle 0.
23. Click on your gradient layer in the layer pallet and add a new raster layer. Name it image.
24. Open the image tube you are going to use in PSP. If using mine, image Resize 70%, ensuring maintain aspect ratio is checked. Edit copy. Edit paste as new selection and position the image.
25. Using the eraser tool erase any parts of the image that overlap your frame.
26. Add a drop shadow Vertical 5 Horizontal 5 Opacity 50 Blur 15.
27. Layers, Merge, Merge all flatten.
I hope you like the result.
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