To My Mother
with Love
Tutorial


Here is a simple Mother's Day Heart to design and give to the
best Mother in the world.

Level of difficulty: Intermediate. Intermediate


You will need the graphics on the right for this lesson. Right click on each one and save to your hardrive. White Satin Roses
This tutorial was designed in PSP 6.02 and can be completed in other versions
with some adjustment. Use your creativity and have fun.
Copyright © by Harold E. Jones .. 2001 - 2002.

1. Open new image, width="350" height="350", 16.7 million colors, Transparent.
2. Click on the "Color Options pallet." Color Options Pallet Make your foreground color White ["#FFFFFF"] and your background color Beige. ["#FFE4B5"].

3. Go to "View/Rulers" and click Ok. [If you do not already have "Rulers" on your PSP Desktop] Go to "View/Grid" and click Ok. I find it is easier to be more precise when using the "Drawing Tool" if you have both the "Rulers" and "Grid" activated.

4. Click on the "Layers Option Pallet." Layers Options Pallet and add a new layer and name it "Color."

5. Click on the "Flood Fill Tool" Floodfill Tool and in the "Tool Options Pallet," Tool Options Pallet select "solid color." Right click on the "Color layer" and flood fill with the "Beige background color." This will give us an easy color to view our work as we progress.


7. Click on the "Layers Option Pallet." Layers Options Pallet add a new layer and name it "heart1."

8. Click on your "Preset Shapes Tool," Preshapes Tool open your "Tool Options Pallet" Tool Options Pallet and select the following: "Circle; filled; Antialias=checked."

9. Start at co-ordinates W=175 x H=175 and drag down and across until you have a circle 200 wide.

Mother heart 1
Time to save your work. Go to "File/save as" and save in a .psp extension. I have saved mine as "mother.psp."

10. Click on the "Magic Wand Tool," Magic Wand Tool open your "Tool Options Pallet" Tool Options Pallet and choose "Match Mode=RGB Value; Tolerance=0; feather=0; Sample Merged=unchecked."

11. Left click anywhere on the background out side the "circle." Go to "Settings/invert." The "Marching Ants" will now surround the circle.

12. Go to "Image/deformations/Perspective-Verticle" and when the "Options box" pops up, choose "% Difference=85." Deselect. [Press the keys "control+D." or go to "Selections/select none.] The "Marching Ants" will disappear.

Mother heart 2
Go to "File/save" and click Ok and it will be saved in a .psp extension.

13. While still on the "Heart 1 layer," go to "Image/rotate/rotate left=20 degrees."

14. Click on the "Mover Tool" Mover Tool and position the bottom of this "deformed circle" at co-ordinates W=175 x H=270.

15. Click on the "Layers Option Pallet." Layers Options Pallet and you should have 3 layers. "Layer 1 [the background layer]; "color layer" and the "Heart 1 layer."

Mother heart 2
16. Right click on the "heart 1 layer" heading and in the "Options box" that pops up, choose "duplicate." You wont see any difference because this copy layer will overlap the "Heart 1 layer."

17. Go to "Image/mirror" and the "copy layer" will appear to the right of the deform circle.

Go to "File/save" and click Ok and it will be saved in a .psp extension.

18. Click on the "Layers Option Pallet." Layers Options Pallet and you should have 4 layers. "Layer 1 [the background layer]; "color layer"; the "Heart 1 layer" and "copy of Heart 1 layer."

19. Turn off the 2 bottom layers by clicking on the "small glasses" alongside the headings, "Layer 1" and "Color layers." Go to "Layers/merge/merge visible." Turn on the bottom 2 layers again by clicking on the "small glasses."

Mother heart 2
20. Right click on the "merged layer" heading and in the "Options box" that pops up, choose "properties" and rename it "Heart layer."

21. Click on the "Magic Wand Tool," Magic Wand Tool open your "Tool Options Pallet" Tool Options Pallet and choose "Match Mode=RGB Value; Tolerance=0; feather=0; Sample Merged=unchecked."

22. Left click anywhere on the background outside the "heart." Go to "Settings/invert." The "Marching Ants" will now surround the "heart." To overcome the slight "overlap" that is seen we need to "flood fill" with "White."

23. Click on the "Flood Fill Tool" Floodfill Tool and in the "Tool Options Pallet," Tool Options Pallet select "solid color." Left click on the "Heart" and flood fill with the "White color." Do not Deselect."

Go to "File/save" and click Ok and it will be saved in a .psp extension.

24. Open the "witesatn.jpg" image and duplicate it by pressing the keys "Shift+D" at the same time. With the copy activated, go to "Image/resize" and resize to W=40 x H=40. Go to "File/save as" and name this copy image "witesatn_small.jpg."

25. Click on the "Flood Fill Tool" Floodfill Tool and in the "Tool Options Pallet," Tool Options Pallet select "pattern." Click on the "middle tab" and scroll down until you reach "witesatn_small" and left click on the "Heart" and flood fill with the "White satin." Do not deselect.

Mother heart 2
26. Go to "Image/effects/inner bevel" and apply these settings:Presets=Round; Width=5; Smoothness=15; Depth=2; Ambience=0; Shininess=50; Color=white; Angle=315; Intensity=50; Elevation=30.
These are only suggested settings. You can play around with them until you find something that is more to your liking.
Go to "File/save" and click Ok and it will be saved in a .psp extension.

27. Open the "redroses.jpg" image. Click on the "Magic Wand Tool," Magic Wand Tool open your "Tool Options Pallet" Tool Options Pallet and choose "Match Mode=RGB Value; Tolerance=0; feather=0; Sample Merged=unchecked."

28. Left click anywhere on the background outside the "redroses." Go to "Settings/invert." The "Marching Ants" will now surround the "heart."

Mother heart 2
29. Go to "Edit/copy." Then go to "Edit/paste/paste as new image." The "redroses" will now appear on a transparent background. I made a tube out of the "redroses" so that I can alter the size if needed. Go to "File/export" and export as a "Tube."

30. While this new "redroses" image on the transparent background is still active, go to "File/save as" and save as redroses1.psp."

Go to "File/save" and click Ok and it will be saved in a .psp extension.

31. While this "redroses.psp" image is still active, go to "Edit/copy."

32. Activate the "Heart layer" and go to "Edit/paste/paste as a new layer." Click on the "Mover Tool" Mover Tool and position the "redroses" overlapping the top left of the "white satin heart." Make sure that the left side of the rose is at co-ordinate W=175.

Mother heart 2
Go to "File/save" and click Ok and it will be saved in a .psp extension.


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