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To follow this tutorial, you first should download some tubes. There are 6 St Patrick tubes you can download from the Jasc website, and we'll use some flower tubes that you can download on the left. | ||||||||
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Open a new image – we'll use an image 500 x 500 pixels, background = transparent, 16 million colors so we have plenty of room to work with. | ||||||||
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Set the foreground color to something dark so it's easily visible. | ||||||||
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PSP 5: Click on the Shapes tool in your tool palette: Shape = Circle Line width = 1 Style = Outlined Antialias = doesn't matter |
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PSP 6: Click on the Preset Shapes tool in your tool palette: |
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| Draw a medium-sized circle in the middle of the image. | |||||||||
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Add a new layer. We do this so we can keep the circle in the background. | ||||||||
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Now we'll start using the Tubes tool. That is the pen-and-inkwell icon next to the Floodfill can.
Select the Clover tube and have it set at a scale of 100%. Draw tubes on the edge of the circle. |
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You may need a few tries to get this right, because there are 24 different clovers within this tube. Use Ctrl + Z (undo) often if you don't like something.
If you have a wreath, and you are not quite happy with it, don't delete it, just make a new layer, and try again. The discarded wreath can be used as a filler to other ones. To use more layers in your wreath: Turn the visibility off on the existing wreath, and start over on the new layer. Once you have made a second wreath, turn the visibility of the other wreath on. The wreath I made is actually a combination of 4 wreath layers, which I then merged to make one. |
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OK, now we will get onto decorating the wreath. Make a new layer. | ||||||||
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Select "Roseleaf" from the drop-down menu in your Control panel / Tool Options palette and have it set at a scale of 100%. Decorate the bottom of the wreath with an array of leaves.
To create a symmetrical decoration, design one side, copy (Edit || Copy) and paste as new selection (Edit || Paste || As New Selection) and then mirror that selection (Image || Mirror). |
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Now were going to put a rose in the middle. Make a new layer. | ||||||||
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Select "Scullrose" from the drop-down menu and have that set at a scale of 100% also.
Place the tube in the middle of the rose leaves. I used the white one. On the left you see the wreath with the leaves and rose placed at the bottom. |
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| This was just one idea ... Decorate the wreath in any way you like! ;o)
Below are some examples of decorated wreaths. |
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We added more tubes – the Flower tube at a scale of 25% and the little white flowers were set at a scale of 10%. | ||||||||
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We decorated these two images in the St Patrick's Day fashion.
The bottles and beer mugs at a scale of about 25% or smaller were placed on the wreath with the gold coins in a layer below. |
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For this image, place small gold coins set at a scale of 15-25% around the wreath, and decorate with shamrocks set at a scale of 10%. | ||||||||
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I also attempted making a bar scene type thing ... It's not that great, but it illustrates the use of tubes. | ||||||||
