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The idea for this tutorial came from a
greeting card I saw, using the
artwork of Cheryl
Welch, who uses a combination of watercolor painting,
collage and
flower pressing to produce unique and appealing images.
(Click on the above graphic for an explanation of
Rated Skills.)
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1. Open a new image 400x400, transparent
background, 16.7 million colors
2. Save this image as
"my_angel.psp".
Tip:
Once you've saved your image, you can save at any time by holding down
you Control key and pressing the "S" key on your keyboard.
(Ctrl +S)
3. Set your foreground
color to black and your background color to white.
4. Add a new layer and name it "Angel base".
5. Load the selection file provided
(cc_angel.sel):
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Click Selections (in your formatting toolbar):
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Load from disk
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Browse to the folder you unzipped your files to
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Click on the file "cc_angel.sel
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Choose "Open"
6. Using your Flood Fill
Tool 
fill the selected area with black by right clicking inside the selected
area. You should now have this (screen shot reduced by 50%):
5. Selections/Select None (Ctrl+D)
(We will use this as the
"basic" shape for our angel, placing our flowers on new layers,
and deleting this layer when we are done.)
6. Add a new layer and name
it "Head".
7. Click on your Picture Tube
tool 
and place a large, circular flower (such as a sunflower or daisy) in your
Angel's head area, making it large enough to cover the black of your
Angel base:
Save your image (Ctrl+S)
8. Add a new layer and name it "Neck".
Move this layer below your "Head" layer in your layer
palette. Each time we add a new layer we will be moving it below the
previous layer.
Tip: You can move your layer in different ways:
Click Layers in your formatting toolbar
Click on Arrange
Click on Move Down, or
Click and hold on your layer in the layer palette and
Drag and drop where you want it
9. Click on your Picture
Tube tool
and place a flower in your Angel's neck area, choosing an appropriate
size (use the undo button until you get the size you want):
10. Duplicate this layer several times (the number of
duplicates will depend on the size of your flower); for my flower I
duplicated 3 times. I placed each flower on a separate layer which
allows me much more manuverability menuverabilty
maneuvability, oh heck, control!
Tip: You can duplicate your flower in different ways:
Right click on this layer in your layer palette
Choose duplicate, or
Right click in the title bar of your image and choose Copy or Ctrl+C:
Right click in the title bar of your image and choose
Paste As New Layer:
I prefer the second method, since
you only need copy once and you can Paste As New Layer as many times as
you want after that.
*If
you use the duplicate layer method, your flowers will all be stacked
one on top of the other.
*If you use the copy and paste method your duplicates will be
stacked one on top of the other in the center of your canvas.
Either way, the following steps will be the same
Save your image (Ctrl+S)
11. Using your Mover Tool
move your duplicate flowers into place to create the neck/collar of your
Angel (the top flower will be placed to the right, with the others
following until you have them overlapping to your liking):
Tip: Your Mover Tool 
is not "layer sensitive". When you click on your
canvas with this tool, it "attaches" itself to the topmost
visible item in your canvas. In other words, when you click on the
"stack" of duplicate flowers you will move the top flower,
regardless of which layer you have active in your layer palette.
This is really a timesaver, since you don't have to worry about which
layer is active...
12. When you are happy with your
neck/collar, turn off the visibility for all layers except your
neck/collar flower layers:
13. Right click on any of your visible
layers. Click on Merge, then choose Merge Visible:
14. Rename this merged layer
"Neck"
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Designed by Cathy
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Revised: April 06, 2008.
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