Lace and Flowers Tutorial

Lace and Flowers

An Original Tutorial by Betty

Materials: A main tube of your choice and any decorations

Download Bettyfloral and bettylace Masks (zipped)

Also the psp image above if desired.

Filters Required: None

1. Open the 2 masks and your tube in PSP.

2. Select a light color for foreground and a darker color for background.

3. In materials palette form a gradient of the foreground/background colors

using the following settings:

4. New, Image, transparent raster 700 px wide by 600 px high.

Flood fill with the gradient you created.

5. Layer, new raster layer.

Flood fill with the background color

Layers, new mask layer from image.

Find bettylace and click OK

Layers, Merge, merge group.

6. Highlight raster layer 1 in your layer palette.

Layers, new raster layer.

Flood fill with your foreground color (not the gradient)

Layers, new mask layer from image.

Find Bettyfloral mask.

Click OK

Layers, merge, merge group.

Adjust, Sharpen.

7. Now you are ready to add your tube and images.

With the layers open, you can move your tubes above or below the

mask layers for a transparent look.

8. When satisfied, image, borders 4 px background color.

9. Image, borders, 14 px white.

Select with magic wand and flood fill with the gradient

Select None.

10. Image borders, 4 px background color.

Another example.