the garden graphic


God's Garden Stationary



Any resemblace of this tutorial to any other is purely coincedental. This tutorial is from my own imagination.
Do not copy this tutorial, email it or translate it.
Do not send it to any group without my
written permission. This was done with PSP Pro X but should be able to be done with other versions.



Supplies needed:

  • Paint Shop Pro X. A demo version can be downloaded from HERE.
    Greg's Factory Output Vol 2 Download it from HERE.
    FM Tile Tools Demo Here

      Graphic of choice
    *Note: I encourage you to find tubes of your own and use your imagination to add that special touch. Place your blushin gradient and your banded silver in your gradients folder. Put the buttflykisses brush in your brush folder Put your tubes in your tube folder

    If you have everything you need we will begin.

    1. Put your foreground on the blushing gradient. Angle = 0, Repeats = 0, Style = Linear

    2. Open a new transparent image of 550 x 500 and flood fill with your gradient.

    3. Open your misted filly tube and copy it. Paste as a new layer on your work image.

    4. Choose your pick tool, (deformation tool), and stretch this tube to fully fit the canvas. When done click on the hand tool to deactivate.Now lower the opacity of this layer to 50%.

    5. Open you kat0217 tube, copy and paste as a new layer on your working image.

    6. Go to layers, resize and resize this tube to 60 %, making sure resize all layers is unchecked.

    7. Move your tube to the bottom left corner, (see my example for placement if needed). Lower the opacity of this layer to 78%

    8. Duplicate this layer and then go to Image...mirror.

    9. Now open the mmhand tube...copy and paste as a new layer on your working image. Resize to 75% and place in upper right , (see my example above). Put blend mode on luminance legacy and lower opacity on this layer to aound 65
    10. Open your graphi1 tube...copy and paste as a new layer on your work image. Resize to 85% and place it on the hand. Now here is where it can get tricky.

    11. Once you have your little angel placed on the hand take your eraser tube and erase the parts of the tube that are covering the fingers. See my example above if you are not sure. Lower the opacity of this layer to about 50%

    12. Go to Effects...Illumination effects...sunburst and use the preset...rays in upper right corner. Move the crosshairs on the left to the top right corner as seen in the example below.




    13. Add new raster layer.

    14. Put you background color on #c0c0c0.

    15. Click on your brush tool and select the butterflykisses brush with the settings shown in the example below.




    16. Place the brush in the center of your working image and right click 3 times.

    17. Go to Effects....3D effects....Dropshadow and use these settings...V & H = 1, Opacity= 100, Blur = 2, Color = #441e07.

    18. Lower the opacity of this layer to about 65% and then drag it below raster 3.

    19. Choose your eraser tool and erase any part of the butterflies that may be covering the baby tube.

    20. Change the settings on your foreground gradient to Angle = 45, Repeats = 1, Style = Linear. Change your background color to the banded silver gradient with these settings: Angle = 45, Repeats = 1, Style = Linear.

    21. On your working image...merge all flat then go to selections...select all


    22. Add a new raster layer and flood fill this with your background gradient, (bandedsilver). Go to Selections...Modify...Contract by 2.

    23. Click the delete key on your keyboard. (DO NOT DESELECT)

    24. Once again flood fill your image but this time with the foreground gradient (blushing gradient). Go to Selections....Modify...Contract by 15. Hit the delete key and do not deselect.
    25. Now fill the image again with your background gradient, (bandedsilver). Go to Selections...Modify...Contract by 2. Hit delete and do not deselect.

    26. Go up to Effects...3D Effects...Cutout and use these settings: V & H = 4, Opacity = 65, Blur = 8, Shadow Color = black.

    27. Repeat step 26 changing the V & H to -4, (minus 4). Do Not Deselect.

    28. Go to Selections...Invert. Do Not Deselect.

    29. Effects...Greg's Factory Output Vol 2...PoolShadow...use default settings. Go to Selections...select none.

    30. New Raster Layer...add your watermark here. Merge all layers flat.

    31. Export as a jpg and you are done. In the next part if you wish to do stationary for Incredimail I will show you how to make the background for this header tag.


    God's Garden Background

    1. Open a new 350 x 350 transparent image.

    2. Choose the blushing gradient with these settings... Angle = 0, repeats = 0, Style = linear. Flood fill the new transparent image.

    3. Flood fill your working image with this gradient.

    4. Open your kat0217 tube and copy it then paste it as a new layer on your working image. Lower Opacity to 50%.

    5. Go to Effects...FM Tile Tools...Blend Emboss and do this twice.

    6. Change background color to #ba7f7e. Add new raster layer and fill with this color. Lower opacity of this layer to around 55% to 60%.

    7. Mere all layers flat

    8. Go to Effects...Image Effect...Seamless tiling and use defaults. Export as a jpg.



    Put it all together in Letter Creator and you are done.

    I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions or comments please contact me

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