Artificial Flowers Frame
(PSP all versions - No filters)
A tutorial by Mar © 2007.


 

You can Drag & Drop the below hand  for a easy use of this tutorial.

What you need:
Corel PSP. Download a 30 day trial here.
The artificial flowers: Download here.
The leather patterns: Download here.
Open all images from the ZIP in PSP.

Save often.
Let's get started. Good luck.....

This tutorial is done in PSP 9.
Open one of the artificial flower tubes from my site.
The tubes 3 all the way down to 13 on this page.
Of course you can use a flower tube of your own.

Now open the leather patterns from the ZIP.
See what colors match your tube best and choose two.
I make this tutorial with the blue/yellow flowers.
That's why I use MD-Leather-4.jpg and MD-Leather-9.jpg.

1. Open a new image 350 X 450 > Transparent.

2. Open the lightest of the two leather patterns.
Foreground to pattern and look for your light pattern.
For the rough leather patterns use scale 50.
For the other patterns use scale 100.
Texture unchecked (= blue hand).


Fill your image with the pattern.

3. Effects > 3D-effects > Inner bevel > Color white.

4. Selections > Select all.
Selections > Modify > Contract with 20 pixels.
Click "Delete" to remove the middle part.

5. Background to the second (darker) pattern.

6. Fill the selection with your right mouse button, the second pattern.
Repeat the inner bevel as before.

7. Selections > Modify > Contract with 20 pixels.
Click "Delete" to remove the middle part.

8. Fill this selection with your first pattern (yellow for me).
Repeat the inner bevel as before.

9. Selections > Modify > Contract with 20 pixels.
Click "Delete" to remove the middle part.

10. Fill the selection with your right mouse button, the second pattern.
Repeat the inner bevel as before.

11. Selections > Modify > Contract with 20 pixels.
Click "Delete" to remove the middle part.

12. Again fill this selection with your first pattern (yellow for me).
Repeat the inner bevel as before.

13. If all went well you now have this:

14. Selections > None.

15. Copy your frame.

16. Edit > Undo and your selection is back.
Selections > Modify > Contract with 20 pixels.

17. Layers > New raster layer.

18. Edit > Paste > Paste into selection.

19. You now have two layers and it looks like this.

20. Selections > None.

21. Effects > Reflection effects > Pattern.

22. Select and remove all blocks until you have 3 right and 3 down left.
Take a look at my next screenshots on how to select.

  

23. Selections > None.

24. Effects > 3D-effects > Drop shadow > Black.

25. Open your flower tube and copy it.

26. Edit > Paste > Paste as a new layer.

27. Move the flowers to the left bottom corner.
Some flowers may look better when placed somewhere else.
See for yourself what you like best.

28. Give your flowers a drop shadow as you used before.
Repeat the drop shadow but this time Vert. and Horiz. at - 4.

29. Layers > Merge > Merge all flatten.

Your Artificial Flower Frame is done.
I hope you like this tutorial and learned something new.
Thank you for putting my tutorials to the test.

For the frame above I used 3 different leather patterns.
Dark and lighter red and the crème white.

Since 01-31-2007: