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
Saturday
Patterned Beads and Seed Beads
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Beads
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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.
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.
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Tag
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Guitar from a template
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Template
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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
Labels:
Colour Photo
Artist exploration, watercolour, creativity, inspirational, digital graphics, Journal Art, Scrapbooking, design, patterns, seasonal art, fun art,
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!
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!
Labels:
Flowers
Artist exploration, watercolour, creativity, inspirational, digital graphics, Journal Art, Scrapbooking, design, patterns, seasonal art, fun art,
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
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Photo Frames,
Polaroid,
Viewmaster
Artist exploration, watercolour, creativity, inspirational, digital graphics, Journal Art, Scrapbooking, design, patterns, seasonal art, fun art,
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
Artist exploration, watercolour, creativity, inspirational, digital graphics, Journal Art, Scrapbooking, design, patterns, seasonal art, fun art,
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.
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Candy Hearts,
Love Hearts,
Paintshop Pro,
Valentine
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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!
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Paper
Artist exploration, watercolour, creativity, inspirational, digital graphics, Journal Art, Scrapbooking, design, patterns, seasonal art, fun art,
Staple
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Staple
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