© Alicia's Place Filigree Plant Picks Tutorial

First I want to thank Dee for been so kind and let me use her Gold Fold Pattern for this tutorial. Thank you Dee!!!

For this tutorial you will need Paint Shop Pro and this zip file

Unzip the selections into your PSP selections folder, the D_Gold Fold and Alimarble Patterns into your PSP Pattern folder.

First we are going to do the hummingbird:

Open a new image 400 x 400 transparent, add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>alicolibri.sel, if needed click on the Magnifing Glass>Zoom in and Flood Fill inside the selections with the D_gold fold pattern, deselect.

Using your Magic Wand with Tolerance 0, Feather 0 and Sample Merged not checked click inside the body and go to selections>modify>expand 2, make your layer 1 active and add a new layer and flood fill with the Alimarble pattern, deselect, turn off visibility on layer 1 and merge visible, rename this layer Body, go to image>effects>3D effects>drop shadow and apply the following settings: Horizontal and Vertical 1, Opacity 50, Blur 9.4, Color Black.

Add a new layer and name it wing1 go to selections>load from disk>alicoliala.sel flood fill with the gold pattern and add the same shadow. Duplicate this layer and with the Deformation tool turn the second wing to the left and position it like the one at the bottom of this page, rename this layer wing2, move wing1 layer under the body layer. Be sure you are on wing1 layer and add a new layer, name it tail, go to selections>load from disk>alicolicola.sel flood fill with the gold pattern and add the same shadow, deselect. Add a new layer and go to selections>load from disk>alicolipico.sel, flood fill with the gold pattern and go to image>effects>3D effects> inner bevel and apply the following settings:

Ad the shadow and deselect. Go to body layer and add a new layer, with your selections tool, circle, feather 0, antialias checked draw a little circle for the eye, flood fill with black and add an inner bevel using the round preset. Merge your layers visible and your hummingbird is ready, go to edit>copy, edit>paste as a new image and export it as a tube, minimize it now.

Now let's to do the Dragonfly:

Open a new image 400 x 400 transparent. Add a new layer and go to selections>load from disk>alidragala1.sel, flood fill with the gold pattern, add a new layer and go to selections>load from disk>alidragala.sel. flood fill with the gold pattern, turn off visibility on layer 1 and merge visible, duplicate this layer and go to image mirror, and with the deformation tool position the second wing on place (see model on bottom) Add a new layer go to selections>load from disk>alidragonfly.sel flood fill with the gold pattern, go to layers duplicate and repeat seven times, with the mover tool move each layer and position them like this:

Turn off visibility on layer 1 and merge layers visible, go back to layer 1 and add a new layer and name it gems, go back to the merged layer and with your magic wand same settings as before click inside the first ellipse, go to selections>modify>expand 2, go to the gems layer and fill the selection with your gem (you can find wonderful gems at Justkissme) repeat this step until you'll get all your gems in place. Merge your layers visible, go to edit>copy, edit>paste as a new image and export it as a tube, minimize it.

Now let's make the butterfly:

Open a new image 400 x 400 transparent, add a new layer and go to selections>load from disk>alimariposa.sel, flood fill with the gold pattern, deselect. Go to layers>duplicate and then layer>mirror, with the deformation tool position the second wing as shown on bottom. Add a new layer and go to selections>load from disk>alimariposa1.sel, flood fill with the gold pattern and deselect. Go to layers>duplicate, do this two times, with your mover tool move this two layers and position them as shown:

For the gems repeat the same we did with the dragonfly. Turn off your background and make sure you have the gold pattern on your foreground and with the draw tool: Freehand line, Width 1, Antialias checked draw the antennas. Merge all layers visible, go to edit>copy, edit>paste as a new image and export as a tube, minimize it.

We almost finish, open a new image 100 x 400 transparent, with the Selections Tool, Rounded Rectangle, Feather 0, Antialias checked, draw a rectangle on top of your canvas, the size is 20 x 80, flood fill with the gold pattern, but this time change Angle to 135 and the Scale to 50%, go to effects>texture effects>blinds with this settings: Width 2, Opacity 44, Color Black, Horizontal and Light from left checked. Do not deselect, add a new layer and apply a cutout: Horizontal and Vertical 2, Opacity 58, Blur 4.7, Shadow Color Black and Fill Interior not checked, add another layer and apply the cutout again but this time change Horizontal and Vertical to -2 (minus two) merge this 3 layers visible. Add a new layer and draw a new rectangle, this time 5 x 300 flood fill with the gold pattern and apply the same Inner Bevel we used on the hummingbird. Move layer 2 under layer 1 and position it in the center, merge your layers visible. Now is time to decorate, I live that to your imagination.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, if you have any questions or comments please email me

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