Flowercaps

 

 

Needs: PSP, filter blade pro, superblade pro of eye candy 5 impact.

 

  1. Open a transparent 400 x 400 pixel image.
  2. New raster layer, fill with color, now you can see what you do.
  3. Set foreground colour to white and lock your background colour for now.
  4. Select basic tool rounded rectangle.

  1. Now draw an approximate 4 x 4 square rectangle.

  1. New grid layer.
  2. Select basic tool oval and keep the previous settings.
  3. Draw an oval and move it into position.

  1. Select the basic tool rectangle and draw a small rectangle ( see below ) and press delete.

  1. Select the rounded rectangle layer and the selection tool rectangle and draw a small rectangle like in the example below, click delete.

  1. You’ll now have this:

11. Merge visible layers.

12. Select selections tool rectangle and draw a selection like shown below:

Then click delete.

 

  1. Select the pen tool with the following settings:

 

  1. Draw a straight line at the end of the oval, right click and click apply. You’ll now have this:

 

 

  1. Click the magic wand on the edge, and the edge will be selected now. Go to plug-in filters and pick a Blade Pro or Eye Candy 5 preset.
  2.  New layer.
  3. Select basic shape Flower 2, set fore- and background color to white and draw a flower, see below:

 

  1. Click your magic wand inside the hole , selections – modify selections – expand by 5, fill with white, deselect.
  2. Use your selection tool to select half of the flower and click delete.
  3. Move the half flower to the correct position, see below.

  1. Select with the magic wand and repeat the Blade Pro effect.
  2. Deselect and merge visible layers.
  3. One half of the clip is finished now. Save as .PNG file.
  4. If you’d like a full clip, duplicate and mirror the layer.
  5. Slide them almost together.

  1. Now we’ll erase parts, the clip part that overlaps will be erased completely. This will be your end result:

 

  1. Feel free to add a drop shadow now.
  2. Remove the rasterlayer you filled with color ( point 2)
  3. Save as .PNG file.

 

 

You can also use different patterns or images like butterflies or dingbatfonts. They’ll give you the same effect.

 

 

© Marank Design 2006

~ Translation to English by Renate Rietveld AKA Dragonfly July 2006 ~