Flower Susan

 

Gerda's original Dutch tutorial can be found here

This tutorial is done in PSP9

You will find the supplies below.

You must have prior knowledge of PSP

 Gold pattern  download

Supplies consist of:

 a tube- susan t1069 . Please keep the name intact;

A Psp-image- flowerger ;

A mask 2020,

and a nice font  

Bickham Scrip Fancy 2

Download supplies here

Step 1

Open the flowerger psp image

Change your foreground color to #e9e1ee,

and your background to #e7b8c2

Gradient--> style linear, angle 45 , repeat 5

Fill the canvas with the gradient

Adjust--> Blur --> Gaussian Blur- radius 16

Step 2

Change your foreground to the gold pattern

New raster layer.

Load flowerger1 - selection from the Alpha channel

and fill with the gold pattern.

If you find it difficult to fill the selection - set the brush on round, size 250 and fill the selection a few times.

Deselect.

Drop Shadow 1/1/43/8.91 color #400000

Duplicate this layer

Go to Image --> Mirror

  and Image -->Flip

Merge all layers

Stap 3

Important - keep the image selected until the end of step 3!

Load the flowerger2- selection from the alpha channel

Add a new raster layer and fill with the gold pattern

Selections modify -->contract by 1 pixel and press delete.

Fill this selection again with the gradient , same settings as in step 1

Merge all layer while still selected

Keep selected!! :))

Selections-->Invert

Inner Bevel - soft border( bevel 5), with these settings

 5 /14/5/-30/14  ,  angle 315   ,   37/68  color white

Repeat this inner bevel x1

Change your foreground color to the gold pattern again!!!!

Add a new raster layer, while the canvas is still selected and fill the center with the gold pattern.

Selections -->selections modify --> contract by by 1, and press delete.

NOW YOU CAN DESELECT. :-)

Stap 4

Open the tube susan t1069 and paste as new layer onto the canvas. Reduce the size to 90% - make sure "resize all layers" is not checked

Image --> Mirror

Load mask from disk - find the mask 20-20  "Invert"not checked!

Delete Mask and reply "yes" to the question 

Merge group.

Position the tube nicely against the border on the bottom

Add a drop shadow 19/-31/100/48 color #7e3e4f

Merge All layers

Step 5

New raster layer

Open the

Bickham Scrip Fancy 2- font

and add your name in gold

Drop shadow 19/-31/100/48 color #7e3e4f

Merge all layers and you're done.

This tutorial can be used freely, but should not be copied.

You can link to it.

It takes a lot of time to write a tutorial.

Since I don't have much time,

I cannot reply to any emails.

However you are welcome

to ask questions on my PSP groep

" Ger's Psp Café"  .

If you're interested,

click here

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