Door Harp Tutorial #3.

13. Add a new layer and name it "strikers."
Click on the "Color Options pallet." Color Options Pallet Change foreground color to Red="#C00000."
Keep this new layer highlighted. Click on your "Preset Shapes Tool," Preshapes Tool open your "Tool Options Pallet" Tool Options Pallet and choose, filled, line width=1, Antialias=checked.
On this layer start at end/bottom of first vertical string, hold down your left mouse button down and drag down till your circle is approx. 10 pixels. Release your left mouse button.
Click on the "Magic Wand Tool" Magic Wand Tool and click on red circle. Marching ants appear.
Go to image/effects/inner bevel. Same settings as before.
Go to edit/copy. Edit/paste/new selection another 4 times.
Place each of the red toggles at the end/bottom of the other vertical strings. Deselect. Example on the right.

Click on the "Layers Option Pallet." Layers Options Pallet Turn off Background [layer 1]. Go to layers/merge/merge visible. Save your work. Example at the right.

14. Add new layer and name it "bridge 2".
Click on the "Color Options pallet." Color Options Pallet Change foreground color to "#C59953"
Click on your "Preset Shapes Tool," Preshapes Tool open your "Tool Options Pallet" Tool Options Pallet choose, rounded rectangle, filled, width=1, antialias=checked.
Place cursor on top/left side of first bridge rectangle and drag down and across, until the second rectangle covers the top edge of the vertical strings.
Click on the "Magic Wand Tool" Magic Wand Tool and click in the centre of this rectangale and the marching ants appear.

15. Go to image/effects/inner bevel with the following settings on the Options pallet, width=2, depth=2, Smoothness=40, Shininess=10, Intensity=67, Elevation=20, Angle=315.
click ok. Deselect. Example on right.
Click on the "Layers Option Pallet." Layers Options Pallet Turn off Background [layer 1]. Go to layers/merge/merge visible. Save your work.

16. Now it's time to decorate your finished Door harp. Make sure your "top or merged layer" is active.
Add a new layer and name it "Decorations". This is where you use your Creative Talents and decorate your Door harp "your way."
I have added 4 tubes here on 4 different layers on my Door harp. This has enabled me to place the "South Australian Sturt Desert Pea [red flower]" and the "Australian Golden Wattle" just where I wanted them. I mirrored and moved both of the tubes, second time around. Deselect.

Click on the "Layers Option Pallet." Layers Options Pallet Turn off Background [layer 1]. Go to layers/merge/merge visible. Save your work.

17. Click on the "Layers Option Pallet." Layers Options Pallet Turn ON Background [layer 1].
With your Background layer activated, flood fill with a color of your choice.

Activate your Layers Options Pallet. Go to layers/merge/merge flatten. Save your work as a ".jpg image."
Congratulations. You have finished. Well done!

This tutorial written by Harold E. Jones.

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