tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132869480792005032023-11-16T08:19:51.592-05:00Capricious TutsAmyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990373986324706499noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413286948079200503.post-50193695478156724132013-02-19T20:38:00.003-05:002013-02-19T20:39:24.829-05:00Create an Argyle Pattern<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Finally something new on the tut front! This should be a versatile pattern you can use for creating kit papers, backgrounds, and pattern fills.<br />
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This tut was written 18 February 2013 using PSP 9.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>This tutorial uses no outside filters. It will use only effects and tools native to PSP 9. Those same tools and effects should be available in other versions of the program as well although they may be located in different menus. I'm only familiar with and have only ever used version 9 so I'm unable to help with other versions of the program.<br />
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If you wish to create your pattern exactly as the one in my sample, save my palette below to use. If you want to create it in other colors, just select 3 colors of your choice. Typically, I see argyle patterns with a dark neutral color and then two additional colors.<br />
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Let's begin!<br />
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1. Open a new transparent canvas. Any size is fine and will depend on how large you eventually intend to use your created pattern. Just be sure it is a square canvas (height & width being equal). For my example, I'm using a 400 x 400 pixel canvas.<br />
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2. Using the Paint Bucket tool, flood fill your canvas with the dark color from your palette. For mine, I'm using #808080.<br />
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3. Add a new layer (Layers > New Raster Layer...). This will be the layer where you add the light & dark shades of the color you're making your pattern.<br />
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4. Activate your Selection Tool, and then choose the Custom Selection tool.<br />
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5. Enter the positions as follows: Top - 0, Left - 0, Right - 200, Bottom - 200. (Those values work for my example canvas of 400 x 400 pixels. If your canvas is larger or smaller, just divide your dimensions by half to find the numbers you should enter for the Right & Bottom values.) Click the OK button to make the selection active, and flood fill the selection with one of your palette colors.<br />
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6. Activate the custom selection tool again, and enter the values as follows: Top - 200, Left - 200, Right - 400, Bottom - 400. (Again, these are the correct values for my example canvas, but if your canvas is different, use the full height & width values for the Right & Bottom and half the height & width for the Top & Left values.) Flood fill this new selection with the second color from your palette. Merge this layer down (Layers > Merge > Merge Down). Once merged, your canvas should resemble mine.<br />
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7. Grab the edge of your canvas and drag it open so you have blank space visible around your working area. Activate your Pen Tool, and choose White as your foreground color, set the background color to null. Width of the line for my example is 5, and I chose the dotted line style. <br />
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8. Watch the lower right of the PSP window as you move the point of the Pen Tool around the canvas. The "x" value is your horizontal position, and the "y" value is the vertical position. I want the line I'm creating to be exactly centered across the top half of my canvas so I click the first time with the pen when my "y" value is at 100. The "x" value doesn't have to be exact at this point. Click again somewhere out in the blank area around the working canvas so that the line will completely cover and extend beyond the colored squares.<br />
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9. To ensure that the line you just drew is perfectly straight, click again on the end point and move it up. While still holding the end of the line with your mouse, push the Shift button on the keyboard. That will make the line snap to positions in 45° increments. Move the end of the line back down, and release when it snaps to the straight position. To position the newly drawn straight line across the canvas, go to Objects > Distribute > Space Evenly Horz. Your canvas should resemble mine as below.<br />
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10. Convert the layer with the line to a raster layer. Duplicate that layer (Layers > Duplicate) and then flip the duplicated layer so that there's a second line across the bottom half of the canvas too (Image > Flip). Merge the two layers with the dotted lines (Layers > Merge > Merge Down).<br />
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11. Your canvas should have two layers at this point. The bottom layer has the colored squares, and the top layer contains the two dotted lines. Make sure the dotted lines layer is active and duplicate this layer (Layers > Duplicate). On the duplicated layer, rotate it by 90° right (Image > Rotate > Free Rotate) using the settings shown below. Make sure the "All layers" box is UNchecked. You just want to rotate that new duplicated top layer of lines.<br />
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12. This time, merge everything so that you're down to a single layer on the canvas (Layers > Merge > Merge Visible). Your canvas should resemble mine at this point.<br />
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13. Next, you'll need to increase the size of your canvas so that you have room to rotate the swatch you've created. Image > Canvas size..., and in the window that opens, use the settings as shown below. Note - if you have created your canvas at a different size than mine, a good rule of thumb is to multiply your dimensions by 3. So, mine was 400 x 400 pixels, and I will be increasing mine to 1200 x 1200. Be sure to select the center placement.<br />
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14. Rotate the swatch by 45°. Image > Rotate > Free rotate or Ctrl + R. The direction doesn't matter. Right or left is equally fine. Yours should resemble mine as below.</div>
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15. At this point, we're ready to resize the swatch so that it takes on a diamond shape rather than a square. Go to Image > Resize... or Shift + S. We only want to change the width setting, leaving the height alone. So first, UNcheck the "Lock aspect ratio" box so that you can edit the height & width separately. I adjusted the width on mine to about 65%. My settings are shown below.</div>
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16. Crop the canvas to remove all the excess space around your resized swatch. I always use the Merged Opaque option on the Crop Tool.</div>
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17. After applying the crop, your swatch should resemble mine as below.</div>
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18. Next, in order to make the swatch seamless, you'll need to duplicate the layer and move to duplicated layer to fill the blank corners of the canvas. In your layers palette, you can right click the layer name and choose Duplicate from the menu or you can also duplicate by using the Layers > Duplicate menu. Once you have duplicated the layer, activate your Move Tool either by selecting it from the tools menu or just hit the M on your keyboard. Grab the top layer and drag it into position. Mine is shown below after the first duplication & move. Just line up the top layer so that you don't have a gap between the segments.<br />
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19. Repeat the previous step 3 more times, duplicating the bottom original layer each time and then moving the new duplicated layer into position to fill the blank areas. Each step as I progress is shown below to give you an idea of how it will look at each stage.<br />
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<i>After duplicating & moving the second time.</i></div>
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20. When you're satisfied with the positioning of each duplicated layer, merge everything into a single layer. Layers > Merge > Merge Visible. You're ready to save the file so you can use it as a pattern to fill background papers or shapes or letters. I used my resulting pattern to make the background below.<br />
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As always, any results from the tutorial are yours to do with as you please. I hope it's been a useful tut & one that was easy to follow! Feedback is always appreciated. Let me know what you thought of it! :)<br />
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I've seen these accordion-folded paper flowers in a lot of scrap layouts, and I wanted to see if I could create one digitally. This tutorial is my result, and although it's not an exact match for the ones which look like they've been scanned, it's pretty close. I may have to tinker with this one some more to see if I can make it look a bit more realistic. Hope you'll find it useful!<br />
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This tut was written 9 September 2012 using PSP 9.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>The only filter I'm using in this tutorial is MuRa's Meister Copies. It was a free filter when I downloaded it a long time ago. However, the site where it was hosted was a Geocities site which has since closed. If you don't already have the filter, a Google search should turn something up for you.<br />
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1. Open a new transparent canvas. Any size is fine. I'm usually making things for tag-sized kits so I start a bit smaller. If you'd like to follow along with my steps exactly, my canvas is 500 x 500 pixels.<br />
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2. In your materials palette, choose whatever color you'd like to use in both the foreground and the background colors. If you're using a pattern, just use that in your background properties and set the foreground the null. The color I'm using in my sample is #5D816B.<br />
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3. Activate your Symmetric Shape tool.<br />
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4. Once that tool is activated, use the settings shown in the screenshot below, and draw out a shape to fit on your blank canvas.<br />
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5. Center your shape in the middle of your canvas. Once centered, convert that shape to a raster layer by right clicking on the name in your Layers Palette and choosing "Convert to Raster Layer."<br />
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7. After activating the pen tool, change your foreground color to white in the Materials palette, and change the pen tool settings to those shown in the screenshot below. Draw a line vertically across the flower shape we drew earlier. The pen tool draws a vector line and will create a new vector layer automatically in your Layers Palette.</div>
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8. To make sure it's perfectly straight, click on the bottom node and move it to the left or right. While still holding down the mouse button, press your shift key and drag the node back toward the center of the canvas. The shift key will make it snap to the center so that the line is straight. (If you keep rotating the line while you're holding down the shift key, it will snap to the 45° position as well. We won't be doing that in this tut, but it's a handy tip to remember.) Once you've gotten your line straight vertically, align it to the center of your canvas the same way we did with the flower shape earlier. Make sure the ends of your drawn line extend beyond the edges of the flower.</div>
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9. Once satisfied with the position of your line, convert that layer to a raster layer by right clicking on the layer name in your Layers palette. </div>
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10. Find MuRa's Meister in your Plugins list (Effects > Plugins > MuRa's Meister > Copies). Using the settings below, we'll create a circled effect with the line we just drew. When we originally drew the flower shape, you'll remember we drew it with 20 sides. If you drew yours with a different number of sides, just change the first number in the Copies filter to match how many sides your shape has.</div>
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11. Next, duplicate this layer we just created. On the duplicated layer, the Brightness needs to be adjusted so that it's black rather than white. Go to Adjust > Brightness & Contrast and lower the brightness setting all the way down (-255). Once darkened, move the black lines layer below the white lines in your Layers Palette.</div>
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13. Now merge the white lines layer down to the black lines layer so that you've got a single layer for all those lines. Right click on the top layer of the two in your Layers Palette and choose 'Merge Down.'</div>
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Once merged, your canvas should resemble mine as shown in the next image. Notice how the white lines align with the points of the shape; that will become the reflective crease like a piece of paper would have after being folded. The black lines line up with the valleys between the peaks which will create a shadow effect.</div>
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14. Once merged, apply a Gaussian Blur to that lines layer. Adjust > Blur > Gaussian Blur, with a setting of Radius = 3. Yours doesn't have to be the same as mine though - fiddle with it, see what looks best on your paper or color. </div>
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15. Activate Raster 2 (the flower shape) in your Layers Palette, and choose your Magic Wand tool. It's located in the fly-out menu on your Selection Tool.</div>
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16. Using the Magic Wand, click outside the flower shape anywhere in the blank area of the canvas. Once that area is selected, I always modify the selection by smoothing it a bit. Selections > Modify > Smooth... </div>
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17. Keep this selection active but change which layer is your active layer in the Layers Palette by clicking on the top lines layer, and hit Delete on your keyboard to remove the lines which extend beyond the shape of your flower. Then deselect (Selections > Select None or Ctrl + D).</div>
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18. In your Layers Palette, adjust the opacity and the blend mode of your lines layer. Play with those settings a bit and see which settings look the best. It will vary depending on the color or pattern you've chosen for the flower. For my particular example, I lowered the opacity to about 50% and changed the blend mode to Luminance (Legacy).</div>
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19. Basically, the flower shape itself is finished. Yours should resemble mine as shown below at this point.</div>
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After this point, finish your flower however you'd like. For mine, I added a shiny brad to the center by drawing a circle and then applying a bevel using Eye Candy. I also added a large blurry drop shadow beneath it. You could also use a button or jewel, or anything else you'd like. I also applied a texture to the flower layer before merging all visible layers. After merging visible layers, just crop your canvas to get rid of the excess space around the flower, and you're ready to save it as a .png file.</div>
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Here's an easy way to create a plaid pattern, and as a bonus, it requires no filters at all. You just need PSP, any version should work, and actually, any graphics program should work I imagine.<br />
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This tut was written 11 May 2012 using PSP 9.<br />
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1. Begin by opening a new transparent canvas 200 x 200 pixels.<br />
It's not vital that the size be the same as mine. I tend to make my patterns small with the intention that they'll be a repeating pattern I use to fill larger canvases or shapes. <br />
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2. Using the Paint Bucket tool flood fill your canvas with a color of your choice. For my sample, I chose the yellow color from the palette above to use as the flood fill color.<br />
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3. Enlarge your canvas so that there is blank space around the actual working canvas area. You can either click on the button in the bar at the top to maximize the canvas or by clicking on one of the corners and dragging it out to increase the size so that you can see the cross-hatched design.<br />
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4. Activate your Rectangle shape tool with the line width set to 0, and choose a new color from the palette for your Background/Fill properties box. Draw a couple of random rectangles vertically on your canvas, extending beyond the edges of the yellow square into the blank area around it. That's just to ensure that the color will go all the way to the edge of the working area.<br />
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5. Continue drawing rectangles with each color until you're satisfied with how it looks. There's no right or wrong way to do it. Just play around with it until you have a result you like.<br />
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6. Once you're finished with creating all the rectangles you'd like, merge the layers into a single layer. (Layers > Merge > Merge Visible, or right click on the layer in your Layers palette and choose Merge > Merge Visible). Yours will resemble mine as below.<br />
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7. Now, duplicate your striped layer either by going to Layers > Duplicate or, alternatively, you can right click on the layer name in your Layers palette and choose to Duplicate it from there.<br />
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8. On the copied layer you just created, rotate it 90°. Direction doesn't matter; you can choose right or left. Image > Rotate > Free Rotate. Make sure to UN-check the All Layers box.<br />
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9. Next, lower the opacity of the top layer to 50% by moving the slider in the Layers palette.<br />
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10. Finally, merge the two layers into a single layer. (Layers > Merge > Merge Visible, or by choosing the same option after right clicking in the Layers palette.) Once merged, you can save your finished pattern.<br />
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By using the same four colors from the palette and varying the width & colors of the rectangles you draw, you can get a lot of different variants on the same pattern.<br />
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As always, any results you create from the tut are yours to do with as you please. I hope it was useful to you guys. :)<br />
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I keep seeing chevron patterns cropping up all over the place, especially on Pinterest. So I thought I'd see if I could write up a tutorial to create it to use it for pattern fills or to create scrapbook papers. The result of this tut is shown in the preview image at the top. I hope it will be of interest to some!</div>
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1. To begin, open a new transparent canvas 100 x 100 pixels. (Your canvas here can actually be any size you'd like, just be sure to create one which has both dimensions of the same size. I tend to start with a small size when I'm going to be using the end result as a repeating pattern - just my personal preference.)</div>
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3. Enter the following values in the window which opens: Top 0, Left 0, Right 50, Bottom 100. Then hit the OK button to apply the choices.</div>
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(I'm choosing 50 for my right side value in order to make two stripes that are of equal width. Again, this is something you can change to create a different result. If you entered 25 in that box, the first stripe would be 25 pixels wide and the second would be 75 so you'd have one skinny stripe & one wider one. Just personal preference here.) </div>
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4. Using the Paint Bucket tool, fill the selection with any color you'd like. If you want to follow along exactly with my sample, I'm using color #87A96B. Do not deselect yet.<br />
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5. Invert your selection (Selections > Invert). That will select the empty half of your canvas. Again, activate your Paint Bucket tool and fill the selection with a second color, whatever you'd like. If you're using the colors in my example, I'm using color #FFBD88. Now, deselect (Selections > Select None). Your canvas should look like mine below.<br />
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6. Now, to create the diagonal stripes. Go to Effects > Plugins > Simple > Diamonds. There are no settings to alter in the plugin. When you pick it from your menu list, it will just apply it. Your canvas will now look like mine below.<br />
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7. Copy this canvas. You can right click on the header bar where it says 'Image 1' to open the menu. Choose to copy it.<br />
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8. Open a new canvas which is 200 x 100 pixels. (If you chose to create the first canvas at a different size than mine, just double the width and keep the height the same as what size you used for the smaller canvas.)<br />
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9. With this new larger canvas active, pick your Custom Selection tool once more and enter the following numbers. Top 0, Left 0, Right 100, Bottom 100 (Those numbers are based on the size of the first canvas we made. If the size of yours was different, just enter the size you used for the right and bottom values.)<br />
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10. Since we had already copied our first canvas before minimizing it, we can now paste that into this new canvas selection. Go to Edit > Paste into selection. Once pasted, you can deselect.<br />
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11. Duplicate this layer - Layers > Duplicate. Then mirror it - Image > Mirror. Merge your layers so that you have a single layer. Your canvas will look like mine below.<br />
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And you're finished. You can save your new pattern to use however you'd like. This is seamless when it's done too, so you can use it for any sort of scale size you'd like or to fill any kind of shape of canvas. For example, I used my end result to fill a 400 x 400 pixel canvas using it as a pattern fill at scale 45% and then applied a canvas texture.<br />
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As always, any results you create using this tutorial are yours to do with as you please. I hope it was written well enough to follow it easily. Feedback is always appreciated! :)</div>
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I haven't had any good ideas for the next tut until this weekend. I made some flowers like this for a kit I posted over on <a href="http://capricious-scraps.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">my scrap blog</a> today so I thought I'd write up a tut on how to make these. Hopefully it will be of interest to some!<br />
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This tutorial was written 1 April 2012 using PSP 9 but should work in other versions as well. <br />
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<a name='more'></a><b>Filter needed:</b> Xenofex 2.2 ~ If you don't already have this filter, it is available from Alien Skin directly for free. It's an older filter which is no longer for sale. You can find the link for it here on Alien Skin's site - <a href="http://support.alienskin.com/entries/20693386-old-installers">http://support.alienskin.com/entries/20693386-old-installers</a>.<br />
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1. To begin, open a new transparent canvas. If you want to follow along exactly with my steps, mine is 500 x 500 pixels. As always though, this should be doable for whatever size you'd like your end result to be so start with the size you have in mind.<br />
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2. In your materials palette, select any color, gradient, or pattern that you'd like to use to make your flower in the Background/Fill Properties box. The color I chose was #217159. I've set my Foreground/Stroke Properties box to null because I don't want a color on the edge of my circle.<br />
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3. Activate your Preset Shape > Ellipse tool.<br />
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4. Choose the Circle shape at the top in your Mode selection, and put a check mark in the 'Create on vector' box. We'll be drawing the shape as a vector object so that it can be aligned to the center of the canvas. That way we can stack all 3 layers neatly on top of one another.<br />
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5. Align the vector circle to the center of the canvas. In the menu, choose Object > Align > Center in canvas.<br />
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6. Convert the vector layer to a raster layer so the filter effects can be applied. When you have a vector shape, your filter menus will be grayed out, not allowing you to select any of the filters. You can either change it to a raster layer by using the Layer menu at the top or by right clicking on the layer itself in the Layer palette. I usually just right click on the layer, but either option works the same.<br />
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7. Now that the shape is a raster layer, effects can be applied. I first apply a texture, but that's entirely optional. The texture seems to make it look more like a piece of paper or even a piece of fabric in the end result. Texture is located in the Effects menu. I used 'Hatch fine' in my example, but again, you can use any texture you'd like. My settings are shown in the screenshot below.<br />
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8. Next, I'm adding the Crumple effect (Effects > Plugins > Xenofex 2.2 > Crumple...). The settings I used were as follows:<br />
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Crumple size: 37.85; Crumple Force: 51; Distort Image checked; Direction 60; Inclination: 58; Brightness: 31.86; Size: 54.87; Color: white; Light Boost: 58. <br />
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Those same settings are shown in the screenshot below. If your circle is a different size than mine, you may want to tinker with those settings. You'll be able to see a preview displayed in the filter window before you apply the effect so just move the sliders around until you like how the preview looks. Once satisfied, click the OK button to apply the effect.<br />
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9. Next, I applied Xenofex 2.2 > Burnt Edges to create a bit of a ripped look on the edges of my circle. The settings I used are as follows:<br />
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Expand selection: 5; Burn Width: 8; Roughness: 5; Burn Color: #174D3D (see the next step below to see how I chose that color); Opacity: 61<br />
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10. When selecting the color to use for the Burn Color in the Burnt Edges filter, first select the color which shows in your Background/Fill box. It should be the same color you used when you drew your circle. In the image above, there are 2 small boxes beside the larger Burn Color box - one is my teal color I drew the circle with and the other is a pink shade (that just happened to be the color still in my foreground material although I had set it to null & wasn't using it for anything). Click on the one which matches the green color. <br />
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Then, to choose a darker shade of that same teal color, click on the larger Burn Color box. In the Color window that opens, find the setting for L. Changing that value will adjust how light/dark the shade is. So, to pick a darker shade of the same teal, I changed the setting I've circled below from 73 down to 50. If you're using a different color than the one in my example, that value will vary from color to color. Just lower the number though to create a darker shade - or even raise the number if you want a lighter edge. Once you've adjusted the color value, click the OK button to close the Color window, and click OK in the filter window to apply the effect.<br />
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11. That finishes off what you'll be doing to the bottom layer of the flower. Just repeat the above steps to create two more gradually smaller circles on top of this larger one. Each time you apply the two filters (Crumple & Burnt Edges), click on the Random Seed buttons in the filters before applying them. That will create some differences between each of the layers so that they aren't cookie-cutter copies.<br />
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12. Once you have 3 layers finished, go back and add a large blurry drop shadow on the smallest top layer and the middle layer. Just activate the layer in the Layers Palette by clicking on the name. In my example, the smallest top layer is called Raster 4, and the middle medium-sized layer is called Raster 3. So make sure Raster 4 is the active layer by clicking on it, and apply a drop shadow (Effects > 3D Effects > Drop shadow). Click OK to apply, then activate Raster 3 by clicking on it in the Layers Palette. Apply the same drop shadow to that layer as well.<br />
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The drop shadow settings I used are Horizontal & Vertical = 0, Opacity = 60, Blur = 15, Color = black or #000000.<br />
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13. Merge the visible layers (Layers > Merge > Merge Visible - that will keep the background transparent). Then crop the canvas to the layer to remove the excess empty space around the flower. <br />
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14. Finishing touch - you can add another final tiny circle on the top and apply either a chrome effect to make it look like a brad or pin or a glass effect to make it look like a glass or acrylic button. Again, that's optional. For mine as below, I used Eye Candy Impact > Chrome.<br />
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Once finished, yours will look something like mine as shown below.<br />
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As always, any results you create are yours to do with as you please. I hope all the steps were written clearly enough to follow easily & that I gave enough screenshots so no one got lost. Feedback is always appreciated! :) <br />
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After posting the last tutorial for making a gem or jewel, I spent some time trying to figure out how to make it look more like a faceted cut gem. This tutorial and the sample shown in the image above is the result. It's still not 100% photo-realistic, but it's a bit closer than the last tutorial which is below this post.<br />
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This tutorial was written 20 February 2012 in PSP 9 but should work in other versions of the program. There are some optional basic vector editing steps at the very end of this tutorial so this one may be of interest for that reason even if making a jewel is not. <br />
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<a name='more'></a><b>Filter needed:</b> Eye Candy 3.1 > HSB Noise<br />
The HSB Noise filter is also available in Eye Candy 4000, and again in Eye Candy 5 Textures > Texture Noise.<br />
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1. To begin, open a new transparent canvas 400 x 400 pixels. (The size your choose for your canvas is up to you. I tend to make the canvas about twice as large as the finished jewel will be.) Choose whatever color you'd like your jewel to be in your Foreground/Stroke Materials palette. If you'd like to follow along exactly with my screenshots, I used #3D469D. Flood fill your canvas with the color you've chosen.<br />
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2. Go to Effects > Plugins > Eye Candy 3.1 > HSB Noise. Enter the settings as follows (also shown in the screenshot below) - Hue Variation: 15; Saturation Variations: 30; Brightness Variation: 100; Opacity Variation: 0; Lump Width: 4; Lump Height: 100; Random Seed: 1. And click the Checkmark to apply the effect.<br />
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<i>You can fiddle with those settings as you'd like. The only one which really needs to stay as is, is the Lump Height. That will create the vertical striation which will be necessary in the next step. If the pattern is horizontal instead, the next step won't work properly.</i><br />
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3. Next, go to Effects > Distortion Effects > Polar Coordinates. Select the settings of Rectangular to polar and Transparent. Settings shown in the screenshot below. Click OK to apply the effect.<br />
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<i>*After this step, if you'd like to follow the additional shape steps below, duplicate your canvas two times before moving on to step 4. The two duplicated canvases can be minimized to use later.</i><br />
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4. Activate your Selection Tool & choose a Circle as your Selection Type.<br />
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5. Place your cursor in the center of your canvas. You can see the exact coordinates by looking down in the bottom right of your PSP window. Area is shown in the next screenshot.<br />
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6. Once you've located the center, click & hold your mouse button to drag the selection out to the size you'd like. For my example, my canvas was 400 x 400 pixels so the center is x:200, y:200, and I've drawn out a selection which is 200 x 200 pixels.<br />
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7. Invert the selection (Selections > Invert) and hit Delete on the keyboard. Your canvas should resemble mine as shown in the screenshot below.<br />
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<i>I select the most central area of the canvas because the colors get blurrier the further from the center you go. This is just my personal preference - not necessary if you like how yours looks.</i><br />
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8. To trim the canvas down and remove all the excess space, use the Crop tool.<br />
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9. The next step will add a reflection to the top of the jewel. Activate your Ellipse tool with the settings as follows (also shown in the screenshot below although a the image is a bit blurry so the main settings to be sure of are noted): Create On Vector checked, Line width set to 0, Anti-alias checked.<br />
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10. In the Materials Palette, set your Foreground/Stroke Properties to Black (#000000) and the Background/Fill Properties to White (#FFFFFF). Change the Background/Fill from Color to Gradient, and choose Foreground-Background with an Angle of 0 and Repeats at 0.<br />
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11. With the Ellipse tool still activated, draw an ellipse near the top of your round jewel. Your canvas should resemble mine as below.<br />
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12. In the Layers Palette, change the Blend Mode on that top ellipse to Screen, and lower the opacity to about 60%.<br />
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13. Merge visible layers (Layers > Merge > Merge Visible), and the round jewel is finished. My end result is shown in the next screenshot. Yours should look somewhat similar.<br />
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<i>If you wish to add any type of setting, there are steps for a bezel setting & prong setting in my previous gemstone tutorial which you can follow & use for this new jewel if you'd like. Those settings can be found in the following tutorial - <a href="http://capricious-tuts.blogspot.com/2012/01/create-gemstone.html#more" target="_blank">Create a Gemstone</a>.</i><br />
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<i><b>Alternate Shapes - Octagon</b></i><br />
1 -3. Follow Steps 1 through 3 above to create the basic pattern which will become the jewel. Or, if you duplicated the canvas after step 3, just activate one of those minimized canvases to use for the next steps.<br />
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4. Activate your Selection Tool and choose Octagon for your Selection Type.<br />
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<i>At this point, you could choose any Selection type you'd like for a different shaped jewel.</i><br />
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5. Draw out the selection you'd like - something similar to mine in the screenshot below.<br />
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6. Invert the selection (Selections > Invert), and hit Delete on the keyboard.<br />
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7. Next activate your Rectangle Shape Tool and set your Foreground/Stroke color to Black (#000000) and Background/Fill to White (#FFFFFF) and change the Fill from Color to Gradient. See step 10 above for those settings. This will become the reflection on top of the octagonal shape. Draw out a rectangle with the bottom edge as wide as you want the reflection to be. The top edge will overhang the octagon, but we'll fix that in a moment. Your canvas should resemble mine as below at this point.<br />
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8. Leave the rectangle as a vector shape, and activate the Object Selection Tool. Click on the rectangle with that tool so that it is selected & active.<br />
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9. Hover over the top right corner of the rectangle with the Object Selection Tool. You should see an outline of a rectangle with square corners. Still hovering over that same corner, push the Ctrl key on your keyboard. The shape should change from a rectangle to a trapezoid. I tried to capture the shape that will be displayed in the screenshot, but it wouldn't show up for me. The screenshot below though has the corner you need to click circled in red.<br />
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10. With the Ctrl key held down, use your mouse button to click on the upper right corner and push toward the center of the shape. Angle the sides of the new shape so that it follows the shape of the jewel.<br />
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11. Again, change the blend mode for that trapezoid shape to Screen & lower the opacity to about 60%. Settings for that are shown in the screenshot in step 12 above in the round jewel section. Merge visible layers (Layers > Merge > Merge Visible), and crop the canvas to the jewel. Resize to suit yourself. Your finished jewel should look similar to mine below.<br />
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<i><b>Alternate Shapes - Pear/Teardrop</b></i><br />
1-3. Follow the original steps 1 through 3 to create the basic pattern we'll use to fill the jewel. Or, if you duplicated the canvas after step 3, just activate one of those original canvases to use for the next steps.<br />
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4. Activate your Ellipse tool. In the Materials Palette, set the Foreground/Stroke properties to Black (#000000) and the Background/Fill properties to White (#FFFFFF). Change the Background/Fill from a Color to Gradient with 0 Angle and 0 Repeats. (Screenshot of those settings is shown in Step 10 above in the Round Jewel section).<br />
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5. Draw an Ellipse (line width of 0) positioned near the top of the blue circle. My placement is shown in the screenshot below.<br />
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6. Activate your pen tool. It's the tool that's shown above in the screenshot, one up from the bottom. We're going to do a bit of vector editing, but I promise it will be painless. Right click on the ellipse and choose Convert To Path.<br />
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7. With the Pen Tool still active, click on the top node. Clicking on it will make it the active node so we can make some changes to the basic shape. After clicking on the top node, your canvas should look like mine below.<br />
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8. Your Pen Tool should still be active. Right click on the top node we just activated. Choose Node Type > Line Before.<br />
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9. Again, with your Pen Tool, right click on that top node once more. This time choose Node Type > Line After. Yours will look like mine below.<br />
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10. Next, with the Pen Tool still active, click on the left side node so that it becomes active. Hold down the Shift key on your keyboard, and with your mouse, click on the right side node. Holding the Shift key lets you choose both the nodes at the same time so you can move them together. You'll see a dotted line connect those two side nodes which you've selected.<br />
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11. Next, click on that larger dot in the center of the dotted line connecting the two side nodes. I've circled the spot to click in the next screenshot.<br />
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12. Once you've clicked on that spot, hold the mouse button in while pulling downward. That will shift the location of the side nodes so that the shape become more bottom-heavy / pear-shaped.<br />
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<i>And that's it, all finished with the vector editing.</i><br />
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13. Activate the Magic Wand tool and click anywhere outside the pear shape. Your canvas should look like mine below.<br />
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14. Smooth the selection (Selections > Modify > Smooth...).<br />
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15. Use the following settings: Smoothing amount - 10, Corner scale - 2, Anti-alias & Preserve corners both checked. This will make the shape we're creating quite a bit smoother on the edges. The screenshot below shows the difference in the two preview panes.<br />
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16. Activate the jewel layer in your Layers Palette (named Raster 1 in my layers). Hit delete on the keyboard to remove the excess color.<br />
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17. Activate the top gradient shape layer again, and resize by 50%. Be sure to UNcheck the All Layers box.<br />
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18. Change the blend mode on this layer to Screen & lower the opacity to about 60%. Move the top shape upward so that it's near the top of the point.<br />
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19. Merge visible layers (Layers > Merge > Merge Visible) and then crop the canvas to trim the excess blank space around the jewel. Yours should look something like mine below.<br />
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This was another pretty long tutorial with quite a few steps but quite a few options too. I hope someone will find it useful, and I also hope that everything was explained well enough for you to follow. As always, feedback is very much appreciated - good, bad or otherwise. Thanks for trying my tut! Any results you create from doing my tutorial are yours to do with as you please.<br />
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I have a new tutorial to share on how to create a gemstone. This tutorial was written 10 January 2012 in PSP 9, but it should work in other versions of the program. You can see the end result of the method I use, and which is shared in this tutorial, in the image above. Just wanted to add a note of thanks for the feedback on my first tut. Glad to know that everyone was able to follow it without any problems, and I hope that will be the case for this one as well.<br />
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1. To begin, open up a new transparent canvas. I usually start with the size of the papers I'm making so for my example, I'll be opening an 800 x 800 pixel canvas. In your materials palette, choose a light shade of whatever color you want your gem to be in the Foreground box. Using the Paint Bucket tool, fill the entire canvas with that light color. In my example, I've used color #E0E0E0, a very light gray color because I want to try to create a diamond.<br />
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2. On your menu, choose Adjust > Add/Remove Noise > Add Noise. In the box that opens, select Gaussian, 75% noise, and Monochrome checked, and hit the OK button to apply the effect.<br />
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<i>I usually start at around 75%, but adjust that amount to suit your own idea. The more noise you add, the more variation in the gem you'll have in the end result. There's always that handy undo button if you don't like how it looks.</i><br />
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3. After the noise has been applied, you're ready to apply the Xenofex filter. Go to Effects > Plugins > Xenofex 1.1 > Origami. I chose 15 pixels for the Fold Size and 50 for the Random Seed. Those settings are shown in the screenshot below.<br />
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4. Right now, you should have a canvas which looks something similar to mine in the screenshot below. Now you're ready to pick out the spot in the canvas that you want to use for the gem.</div>
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5. Activate your Selection Tool and choose Circle in the drop down menu for your Selection type. Feather will be set to 0, and put the checkmark in the Anti-alias box. Anti-alias will keep the edges of your circle selection smoother.<br />
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6. With the circle selection tool active, click anywhere in your canvas to start drawing out a selection area. Watch in the lower right of your status bar inside PSP to see the size you're selecting if you have a specific size you want the gem to be. Or, if you see a certain area of the canvas that you definitely want to use for your gem, place your cursor over the center of that area, click and hold as you draw out the size you want. Wherever you click first will be the center of your selection. I tend to find an area with a lighter center and darker edges to make it seem more realistic.<br />
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7. This is an alternative method for choosing your selection area. You can draw out the selection and worry about the size of it first. Then you can move that marquee around to see how different areas of the canvas will look as your gem. Once you've drawn the selection and have the marching ants around a circular area, choose your Move Tool, right-click inside the selection & hold, then you can drag it around the canvas. That's a good way to see how different spots on the canvas will look without having to do/undo over and over.<br />
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8. Once you're satisfied with the area you've selected, copy and paste that selection as a new image. Two steps here - 'Edit > Copy' first, then 'Edit > Paste As New Image'. Yours should look something similar to mine below once you've picked an area and copied/pasted it as a new image.<br />
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Right now, the gem itself is basically finished. I usually add some kind of setting, either a bezel or a prong setting. Those steps are noted below so continue if you'd like to do the same. Make a copy of your gem canvas (have 2 separate canvases) so you can try both settings if you'd like.<br />
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1. With your new gem canvas active, increase the canvas size so that you've got some room to work. Image > Canvas Size... and add 50 pixels or so on both the width and height dimensions with center placement selected and hit the OK button to apply.<br />
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2. Activate your Magic Wand tool. (It's in the Selection Tool fly-out menu.) Click anywhere in the blank area around the gem to select the empty area. Invert your selection, Selections > Invert. Now the marching ants should be circling the edge of the gem.<br />
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3. Go to Selections > Modify > Expand. I chose 7 pixels for my example, but choose whatever size you think will look good on your gem. With the selection still active, go to Selections > Modify > Smooth and enter the following values - Smoothing amount 10, Corner scale 2, and both Anti-alias and Preserve corners checked. Hit the OK button to apply. Again, this just seems to make the bezel we're adding look a bit smoother around the edges.<br />
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4. Keep the selection active; don't deselect just yet. Add a new raster layer - this is where we'll be adding the bezel setting.<br />
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5. I'm going to add a metallic gradient so you can pick any gradient you might already have (silver, gold, bronze, etc.) or we'll make our own here. For my example, I used my pale gray color in the foreground box (#E0E0E0), and I chose a dark gray for my background (#646464). Click on your foreground color in the Materials palette to open up the palette menu. Change from the Color tab to the Gradient tab. Choose Foreground-Background gradient, with a 45° angle, 3 repeats, and Linear style, and hit the OK button.<br />
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6. Make sure the new raster layer we added is still the active layer in your Layers palette. Using the Paint Bucket tool, fill this selection with the gradient you just chose or made. Your canvas will look something like mine below. You can see both layers in my canvas on the right of the screenshot.<br />
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7. You can deselect now. Choose your top layer and move it to the bottom of your layers so that the metallic fill layer is on the bottom and your gem is back on top. Merge the visible layers (Layers > Merge visible), and you've got a bezel set gemstone similar to mine shown below.<br />
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<b><i>Prong Setting</i></b><br />
1. For a different result, you could choose to make a prong setting. Have your new canvas that we made in the beginning with the gemstone active. Increase your canvas size so you've got room to work. Image > Canvas Size - add 50 pixels to both the width and height dimensions with center placement selected, hit the OK button to apply.<br />
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2. I chose a gold gradient that I already had in my gradients to use for this step. Just choose one you might have that you'd like to use. I chose the gradient in my Background/Fill material box with a 0° angle, no repeats, and circular style. I also checked the Invert box, but that will be based on how your gradient is set up. Just choose whichever (checked or unchecked) allows your gradient to have the lighter shade in the center.<br />
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4. Draw a small shape on your canvas. Leave this shape as a vector object and choose Image > Rotate > Free Rotate. Keeping it as a vector shape will keep it from getting blurry when we rotate it. In the window that opens, enter a 45° rotation, direction doesn't really matter, but make sure the All Layers box is UNchecked. That way only the new shape you just drew gets rotated, not the whole canvas. And hit the OK button to apply.<br />
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5. Move the prong where you'd like it to be on the edge of your gem and then convert it to raster.<br />
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6. Add an inner bevel to the prong. My settings are shown below. If my settings don't look very good on your result, you can play with the settings until you get something you like. The bevel will really probably depend on the size you're making, placement, etc. So my settings may not work as well on your result.<br />
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7. Duplicate the layer with your new prong then flip the duplicated layer. (Image > Flip) Duplicate your new top layer and mirror it. (Image > Mirror) Duplicate this new top layer again and choose flip again. After duplicating, flipping, and mirroring, you'll have four layers, each with a prong of its own on the four corner edges of your gem.<br />
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8. Hide the bottom layer with your gemstone in your layers palette by clicking on the eye for that layer. Merge the 4 remaining visible layers (Layers > Merge > Merge Visible) so that all the prongs are on a single layer. Once done with those steps, your canvas should look similar to mine below.<br />
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9. Unhide the gem layer by clicking on the eye beside that layer again. Make sure your merged prong layer is the one which is active in your Layers palette, and apply a large blurry drop shadow to those prongs. Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow. My settings were 0, 0, 50, 10, black, and be sure to check the box for Shadow on new layer. Hit the OK button to apply.<br />
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10. Activate your gem layer (Raster 1 in my layers). Choose your Magic Wand tool again and click in the open area around the shape.<br />
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11. Activate your shadow layer in the Layers palette and hit Delete on your keyboard. That will remove the shadow around the gem shape but leave the shadow over top of the gem between the prongs and gem. Now you can merge visible and save your file. Your result should look something similar to mine as below.<br />
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This was a very long tut with a lot of different steps, but I hope it was easy enough to follow with enough screenshots to explain what I was doing in each stage. Hope everyone who tries it has learned something new and been able to create a few bits of their own. Any results you create from my tutorial are yours to do with as you please. This tutorial is based on the method I use myself when I make a gem, and any similarity to another tutorial is purely coincidence. Feedback is always appreciated! Good, bad, or otherwise :)<br />
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Happy New Year! Thought it was time to start using this blog and share an inaugural tutorial. This tutorial was written 1 January 2012 using PSP 9. It should work in other versions of the program. The only filter needed to do this tutorial is Simple Filters - Diamond which is a free filter. It's available <a href="http://www.btinternet.com/%7Ecateran/simple/" target="_blank">here</a> if you don't already have it.</div>
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This is my first attempt at writing a tutorial so feedback would be great - good, bad or otherwise. Need more screenshots or less? More explanations or less? Thought I'd write this one up first since I used this same method to create the background on my blog here.<br />
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1. Begin by opening a new blank canvas at 200 x 200 pixels. Any size canvas is okay, but it should be square and able to be divided into 4 equal square sections.<br />
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2. Select 2 colors you'd like to use in your materials palette. A dark & light shade of the same color work well, but again, any colors are fine.<br />
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3. Choose your Selection tool, then the Custom Selection button at the top of the tool palette (as shown in the screenshot below).<br />
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4. In the window which opens, enter the following values. Top: 0; Left: 0; Right: 100; Bottom: 100 and hit the Okay button. That should select the upper left quadrant of your canvas.</div>
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5. Using the Paint Bucket tool, fill that selection with your darker shade. (Again, for my example I've used two shades of the same purple color, but use whichever color you've chosen in your materials palette.) Select none.</div>
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6. Choose your Selection Tool once more, and hit the Custom Selection button. In the window that opens, enter the following values. Top: 100; Left: 100; Right: 200; Bottom: 200 and hit the Okay button. That should select the lower right quadrant of your canvas.</div>
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7. Using the Paint Bucket tool, fill the selection with your lighter shade (or your second color if you're using different colors than I am). Select none.</div>
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<i>Your 200 x 200 pixel canvas should look similar to mine as shown below.</i></div>
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8. Now open a new canvas 100 x 100 pixels. This is where we'll create the portion to fill those two open sections in the larger canvas.</div>
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9. Fill the entire smaller canvas with your darker shade. (Or if using totally different colors, just use whichever one you used to fill the upper left section of your larger canvas.)</div>
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10. Use your Selection Tool > Custom Selection again, and enter the following values. Top: 0; Left: 50; Right: 100; Bottom: 100, and hit the Okay button. That should select the right side of your smaller canvas.</div>
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11. Fill that selection with your lighter shade. (Or if using totally different colors than I am, just use whichever one you used to fill the lower right section of your larger canvas.) Select none. Your smaller canvas should look similar to mine as shown below.</div>
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<i>Your 100 x 100 pixel canvas should now look similar to mine as shown below.</i></div>
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12. With your smaller canvas still active, go to Effects > Plugins > Simple > Diamonds.</div>
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13. Then, under your Image menu (in PSP 9, not sure if it's in another location in other versions), select Mirror.</div>
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14. Copy this small canvas. You can either do that under the Edit > Copy menu, or right click on the header bar for the canvas and choose Copy from there.<br />
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15. Make your larger canvas active once again. Add a new raster layer to the canvas and make sure this new layer is the one which is active in your layers palette.<br />
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16. Choose your Selection Tool > Custom Selection button once more and enter the following values. Top: 0; Left: 100; Right: 200; Bottom: 100 and hit the Okay button. The upper right quadrant of your canvas should be selected now.<br />
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17. Go to Edit > Paste into selection (or you can right click on the canvas header bar and choose the same option from the right-click menu). You should see the dark small corner pointing into the center of your canvas with the light small corner pointing to the upper right corner of the canvas.<br />
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18. Duplicate the layer you just added with the angled stripes. Now, flip & mirror that duplicated layer. Both options are located under the Image menu.<br />
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19. Once the larger 200 x 200 pixel canvas is filled like shown above, just merge all your layers together, and you can now save the file in whatever format you'd like so that you can use it as a pattern fill.<br />
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I hope you've learned how to do something new from my tutorial and that it was easy to follow. Again, any feedback would be much appreciated since this is my first attempt at actually writing a tutorial to explain how I create something. There may be other, easier ways to create this same thing, but this is just the method which I use. Any results you create from my tutorial are yours to do with as you please. Any similarity to another tutorial is coincidental & unintentional. <br />
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<img align="left" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v666/capriciousdream/CapriciousTutsBlog/sig_captuts.png" />Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990373986324706499noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413286948079200503.post-45706695716166930982011-12-31T19:50:00.003-05:002012-01-01T07:42:59.978-05:00New blog designJust a short note. I finally spent some time on this blog today, but I didn't actually get around to writing up the inaugural tutorial to post just yet. Mainly just spent time on customizing it - first stab at doing that, but I think it's turned out fairly well for a first attempt. lol I'm hoping to get a tut posted tomorrow! Hope I'll be able to post some useful info. :)<br />
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<img align="left" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v666/capriciousdream/CapriciousTutsBlog/sig_captuts.png" />Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990373986324706499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413286948079200503.post-37947017800697216542011-10-04T20:21:00.000-04:002011-10-04T20:21:23.599-04:00A new ventureThere's nothing here as of yet and probably won't be for a short little while. I'd like to get the blog customized to coordinate with my scrap blog first and get my thoughts organized on exactly what I want to offer here.<br />
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I just had an idea that I'd like to share some how-to information on creating certain things in PSP possibly including scrap element tutorials and maybe even vector drawing tutorials. So, it's a new venture that we'll see how it goes!Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990373986324706499noreply@blogger.com0