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7. Return to the main Image and activate the "circle 1 layer" and erase this layer by clicking on the little "Rubbish bin" and press "yes" when the dialogue box pops up.
Go to edit/paste/new layer. Your "circle image" that you have copied will appear on a new layer. With your "Mover Tool" position this circle so that it is just covering the top of the "Tassel."
8. Go to Edit/paste/new layer again. Now with your "Mover Tool" position this second circle so that it is just touching the top of the first circle. Repeat this for a third circle, and move it until it touches the top of the second circle.

Now "Turn off" layer 1 [background layer] by clicking on the little glasses. Go to layers/merge/merge visible. Save your work again in .psp format.

9. Turn "on" your background layer by clicking on the "little glasses." Activate the merged layer and then add a new layer and name it "cord." Click on the "Tubes" Tool and in the "Tool Options Pallet," scroll down until you come to the "Rope" tube. Change the settings to "continuous" and "incremental."
Start at the top of the "top circle" and holding down your left mouse button, draw a cord down and then back to the top again.

8. Add a new layer and name it "flower 1." Click on the "Tubes" tool and in the "Tool Options Pallet" box, select a tube flower that appeals to you and place it in the center of the bottom circle. [You may have to adjust the tube size until it fits]. Click on the mover tool, position the flower in the center of the circle.
Add a new layer and name it "flower 2." You can use the same flower or select another. Position this flower in the center of the second circle.
Add a new layer and name it "flower 3." Position this flower in the center of the top circle.

Now "Turn off" layer 1 [background layer] by clicking on the little glasses. Go to layers/merge/merge visible. Save your work again in .psp format.


9. Turn your background or layer 1 back "on" by clicking on the little glasses again. Here is where you use your imagination and creativity by selecting a background for your tassel. It can be a contrasting solid color [change the foreground color], or you can choose a "tile" with a pattern. I have chosen to make a satin tile to display my tassel as you can see in my tutorial heading.

Click on the "flood fill" tool and making sure that "solid color" appears in your "Tool Options Pallet" box, left click on the background layer and it will fill with your contrasting color.
If you wish to have a pattern, then open the "tile" in your PSP program. Click on your "flood fill" tool and when the "Tool Options Pallet" box appears, change from solid color to pattern. Click on the second tab [or middle tab] on the "Tool Options Pallet" and scroll down until you have the "pattern tile" displayed.
Left click on the background layer and flood fill with your pattern.

Go to layers/merge/merge flatten. I then went to image/effects/buttonise and typed in width=3 and height=3 and clicked OK. Just to "finish" with a decent edge on my creation.
Go to file/save as and save as a ["file name"] .jpg image.


Congratulations! You have finished.
Now you are ready to use your imagination and experiment with many of your own
Tassel Creations.


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This tutorial is written by Harold E. Jones.
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