This tutorial was written on January 27 2003, and © by Vera.
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Now for the tutorial....
This is what we will be making!



This tutorial uses vector shapes. It isn't really difficult and you can save the
Wooden Shoe with Tulips as a preset shape as well as a tube.
It is assumed that you have a good working knowledge of PSP.


I did use jpeg optimizer for faster loading, so I'm sorry if the images look a bit weird.
 


What I used for my Wooden Shoe with Tulips.

  • PSP 7      download a free trial version.....and I'm sure you will have lots of fun.

  • Eye Candy 4000   .....it also can be done with the Free version   Eye Candy 3.

  • my preset  download and extract to your preset folder in PSP.

The tools I used:  

Preset Shapes   Object Selector   Selection Tool  Retouch tool  Layer Visibility Toggle
 Air Brush  Lasso tool  Dropper  Draw tool  Flood fill tool

 

Let's go and make the Wooden Shoe and Tulips!......hope you have fun!

Open up a transparent image size around 400 x 600  16 million colours (24 bit).
Don't forget to save as you go along.
I did save it as a shape first....before promoting to layers...something I just have learned......with much thanks to
Barbara of BJWebArt and Mary Newton aka Lady Oz, for helping me out and teaching me all the things about saving shapes.

Click on the Preset Shapes and settings as shown, choose any color you like for the basic wooden shoe.



Draw a oval shape and edit until it looks something like this



Add a new Vector Layer
Now choose a different color for the inside of the Wooden Shoe,
use same shape and node edit until it has the shape as shown below.



I hope you did ....SAVE!


Add a new Vector Layer
for the soil (the Tulips will need that...LOL)



These are all the shoe parts needed....
(it still does need some decoration...LOL)


Well at this point, there are two ways to get the Tulips in the Wooden Shoe.
If you have done my Wooden Shoe with Tulips tutorial...
and did save it as a Shape or with all the Vector Layers...this can be done in no time...LOL!

If you did save as a Shape, click on the Preset Shapes
and select the Wooden Shoe with Tulips settings as below.


Add a new Layer

Now draw the shape the size you like,
and we still can edit each part later on,
after we have cleared the layers we will not use.
We only need the Tulips and Leaves,
so we clear the shoe, shoe inside and decoration.
Clear the layers by clicking on the layer that you will not need,
right click with the mouse en choose clear from the menu.


This is how my layers look like at this point:



When you have cleared the layers, you can edit each remaining layer, and put it in place as you like.
This is how my tulips look like after editing the nodes and putting them in place.



Add a new Layer
Now you can decorate the Wooden Shoe as you like.


I hope you did SAVE!


Well this was the first way you could get the Tulips for this Wooden Shoe.
If you have made the decoration as you like.....you now can go on to the next page!


If you did not save, just keep going on.


The second way is to make the Tulips again as I describe below.


Add a new Vector Layer
We are now going to make the Tulips,
and starting with the stem and leaves.
Choose the green colour or any green colour you like
change the shape to rectangle and draw something same as shown below.



SAVE!
Add a new Vector Layer
We have the stems, so now we need the leaves.
I still used the same color green, but changed the shape to a circle.
Try to shape it, using the nodes as shown below:



It should look like something like this one below:



Then I copied and pasted as a vector selection 5 times,
then rotated them and placed it on the stems.
I used 2 leaves for each stem.
To copy the leaf....highlight it and right click with the mouse,
and you will see this menu:



click on copy, now right click again and choose paste New Vector Selection



When you're done, it should look like this.



SAVE!


Add a new Vector Layer


Now for the Tulip we choose a different color, and keep using the same shape.
Try to shape as shown by using the nodes.
This is the front of the Tulip.



Add a new Vector Layer
We also make a backside for the Tulip as shown below:
Same color and Preset shape.



There are 3 Tulips, so I copied and pasted the Tulips in
the same way as the leaves, also rotated and edited each part
until it was the way I liked them.
Now we are done with all the Vector Layers, and we do need a break....LOL
you should have something like this:



SAVE!


going to the next page!

Feel free to me if there are any problems using my tutorial.  


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