Saturday

Patterned Beads and Seed Beads

Patterned Beads and Seed Beads
(by ©PCArt)
Using Paint Shop Pro XI



Beads here done with pattern, colour, gradient and pattern again

You need the pattern fills you want for your beads open in your workspace
so that they will be available in your materials palette.
or you can use what you already have in your materials palette
You can use colours, gradients or patterns.

Open a new Canvas 600 x 600 pixels at 300 pixels per inch
transparent background
Background colour fill set at #c0c0c0 - Foreground none
Using your Preset Shapes draw out a circle to the size you want
Keep in mind that the size you see in Paint Shop Pro
when seen at approximately 20% magnification
is about the size it would be when printed

This will be your bead Template

in Paint Shop Pro (or e-mail or web) at 100%


Approximate printed size

Go to your bead layer, Right click and Duplicate your Bead as many times as you want to. Use your mover tool to move the beads to where you want them.
The beads are all on separate layers

Click on your first Bead
Selections / Select All / Selections / Float / Selections / Defloat
Selections / Modify / Expand by 2 pixels
Flood fill with your desired pattern, colour or gradient
Keep Selected
Apply Effects /Geometric Effects / Spherize at default
Keep selected
Apply Effects / Artistic Effects / Balls and Bubbles
Shape - single ball or bubble
Surface - colour #ffffff Opacity 15 Shininess 50 Gloss 80
Maps - none
Illumination - Maximum 15 minimum 0 Lights 1 colour #ffffff highlight size 28 Save preset
OR Apply the Eye Candy Round Glass setting of your choice
OR Apply Effects /Geometric Effects / Spherize at default
and Apply Greg's Factory Output Volume II / Spotlight
Play with the settings until you have something you like
The settings here are
X 164 Y 89 Size 46 Focus 84
Inner Gain 160 Outer Gain 45

Repeat applying patterns or colours or gradients and effects to your collection of beads. Cut and paste each completed bead as a NEW IMAGE and save as .png

Continuing with this phase of beads that we are in and using any of the previous tutorials for beads


Create some bead work - anything at all - I used my Seed Beads in some way in all of my Africa Theme Kits This is one of the things I have made with my Seed Beads

Thursday

Definition Tag

Originally from a tutorial By Angela M. Cable - the tutorial is no longer available


Tutorial Note from Pat



Card size 1004 x 650 pixels at 300 pixels per inch
Flood fill with colour of choice
Apply texture I used Filters Unlimited / Cardboard fine
Paint Brush size 47 - blur 32
Add your choice of message /definition / with your favorite font
Leave off the drop shadow
Apply a slight inner bevel to the card.


Guitar from a template



I created this guitar from the Layered Guitar Templates available at the Scrappin Cop

Tuesday

Repair old photo


I am pleased with the way this turned out. I took the old damaged photo of my father and restored it using various retouch tools and layer blends in Paint Shop Pro.
Here is a tutorial link to restore old photo's










































Flowers

Scrap kits often have flowers in them, Vector Drawn and hand painted.
Preset shaped flowers are also used and added to doodles, or used to create Patchwork flowers.
Preset Shapes can also be used to make Paper, Cardboard, Tissue, Fabric, Denim, Gingham, Glass, and Faux felt and sticker flowers. Beads and stitching can be added.




How about creating a Flowery Frame or flower textured paper or ribbon?
Filters are applied to make them look like glass or some kind of jewel or charm.
Real flowers are also photographed and then tubed.
Sometimes a texture is added to make them look like fabric.


This is a little inspirational nudge to challenge you to see what kind of flowers you can create.


I am hoping to see many beautiful bouquets! Share them if you want to on our Facebook page!

Thursday

Old Fashioned Slide Mounts




Polaroid Tutorial Link

Polaroid Frame tutorial from Coral Discovery Centre

Note From Pat

If you are making your single slides for a printable scrap page - try making them at least 3.5 inches x 3.5 inches at 300 pixels per inch.

The round one in the middle has no tutorial - it is simply a preset circle, and a circle cut out, a rounded rectangle duplicated and flipped and merged, duplicated and rotated 45 degrees - and repeated to complete the circle of frames to make your own "viewmaster" type of slide. Here is my mini tut on the Viewmaster type slide, I hope it is clear and easy to understand.

Viewmaster



Saturday

Calendar page using a script


Create a Calendar Page
using script from Joske (for personal use only)
be sure to read instructions given at the download link

Tuesday

Valentine Candy Hearts



I made these hearts each on 600 x 600 canvas using Paint Shop Pro
see circle and heart on background of this image
using a preset shape heart
Various candy type colours
Arial Font 22 points
Eye Candy Extrude - experiment with settings
Add Noise

Example Fonts to use - Helvetica, Arial, Futura

Sans-serif fonts

Example messages

Sweethearts are small heart-shaped candies sold around Valentine's Day. Each heart is printed with a message such as "Be Mine", "Kiss Me", "Call Me", and "Miss You". Sweethearts are made by the New England Confectionery Company, or NECCO. A similar type of candy is sold in the UK under the name Love Hearts. NECCO manufactures nearly 8 billion sweethearts a year.
Sweethearts are now available in a variety of assortments to choose from including chocolate, tart, and smoothie flavors.

Monday

Easy Paper Patterns



Tutorial Note:

Using Project Dogwaffle 1.2 (Freeware) which you can download here

PURE EXPERIMENTATION
1) Download the Freeware
2) Scan for Viruses
3) Paint a random picture using the brush and various settings
4) Save as .bmp so that you can open it in Paint Shop Pro
5) Open in Paint Shop Pro and save as .jpg
6) Make a paper using Effects / Image Effects / Seamless tiling

Your creations are yours to do with as you please
This is merely an idea to spark your creativity!

Staple

Staple made with the help of the tutorial by Shawna - Here