Beginners tutorials - Tut 05

Download the materials HERE
It contains a wood pattern and a Oudpapier.pattern (put this in the folder  Patterns)
ertiles5.pspshape (put this in the folder  Preset Shapes)
You can find the folders in C:\ program files\Jasc sofware inc\Paint Shop Pro 9
Look for some nice little tubes for decoration.

Step 1
Open a new image 400x400 pixels, transparent.
Take your selection tool and choose rectangle, feather 0 and anti alias checked.
Draw a long, small rectangle on top of the image.
Make sure you have some space left on the sides.
 

Change your foreground color into pattern and choose the woodpattern.
If it's not in your patterns, you can just simple open the jpg with the pattern and it will appear in your patterns.

Step 2
Effects - 3D effects - Inner bevel with the following settings:

Selections - select none

Step 3
Foreground is still on the woodpattern.
Change the background into Goldfill pattern (see tut 01, if you don't have it)
Activate your Preset Shape Tool
Choose ertiles5, anti alias and create as vector checked.
Now draw a small figure with your preset tool

Go to your layer palette and change the vector layer into a raster layer (click right on the layer with the + in front)
Image - Rotate - Free rotate - right 90 degrees.(DON'T check all layers)

Stap 4
Slide the figure to the end of the stick you've made like this:

Effects - Inner bevel (same settings as step 2, so it must be still ok)
Click with right on layer 2 and choose duplicate (this is the figure)
Image - mirror. Slide this duplicate to the other side of the stick. (move tool)

Click with right in the layer palette on layer 1 and choose Arrange - Bring to top.
Erase all little borders next to the stick.

Step 5
Make sure layer 1 is activated in the layerpalette.
Layers - New raster layer.
Activate your selection tool again and choose rectangle, feather 0 and anti alias checked.
Draw a selection under the stick:


Change the fore ground into OudPapier.
If it's not in your patterns, you can just simple open the jpg with the pattern and it will appear in your patterns.
Flood fill your selection with this pattern.
Selections - select none.

Step 6
Layers - new rasterlayer.
Activate your selection tool again with the same settings as before.
Draw a little rectangle selection on top of the big flood filled selection till over the stick.

Flood fill this selection with the pattern Oudpapier or choose a soft color from your tube(s).
Effects - Inner bevel with the same settings as before.
Push the "canvas" a bit up, so the noose will be over it a little piece. (move tool)
Selections - select none.

Step 7
Click right in your layer palette on layer 4 (the noose) and choose duplicate.
Push the nose to the middle of the stick (move tool).
Duplicate again and push this duplicate to the other end of the stick.

Decorate your canvas with one or more tubes.
Give them a drop shadow
(effects - 3D effects - drop shadow)
Settings: 1-1-60-2 and repeat on -1

Step 8
Layers -
new raster layer.
Activate the Text tool and look for a font you like.
The size you can use depends on the font and the text you want to write.
I used Dauphin, size 26.
Write a nice text or your name. You can rotate the text a bit if you want.
When it's all done you can merge all layers VISIBLE and you can crop the image.
Save you creation as a gif without a background:
File - Export - Gif optimizer

I hope you liked the tutorial and could understand my English....