Barnyard Miss

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For this tutorial you will need the materials in the zip file below.

This tutorial was written using PSP2020 Ultimate. To work this tutorial, it is assumed you have some working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro. Place 20-20 Mask into PSP Files/Mask folder. Unzip the Materials in a folder you will create on your desktop called BarnyardMiss. Duplicate the tubes and use the duplicates to work with. Close out the originals to keep them from getting deleted. Save your work often. Place the Diamond Psp.Styled Line into your PSP Files/Styled Lines folder if you do not already have it in there. No outside plugins were used in this tutorial.

Thanks go to PamelaD for her beautiful AI tube of the little girl with background.

Use the bookmark below to mark your place along the way.

1. In Materials Palette set the Foreground color to #f8f0bf, Background color to #2c7a87. Set to Gradient, Foreground Background Corel_06_029, Sunburst, Angle 0, Repeats 8, Invert checked, Center Point/Focal Point all set to 50.

2. New/New Image 780px wide X 780px Height. CTRL+A.

3. Open Aras4.pspimage. Select the ORIGINAL layer. Copy/Paste into Selection. CTRL+D.

4. Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur. Radial set to 42.

5. Image/Flip. Flip Vertical.

6. From Aras4.pspimage, Copy BACKGROUND layer/Paste as New Layer.

7. Layers/Load/Save Mask. Load Mask from Disk. From drop down, select the 20-20 Mask. Load.

8. Merge/Merge Group.

9. Image/Resize/Resize by 80%/Resize all layers unchecked.

10. Set Opacity to 90.

11. Layers/New Raster Layer. Flood fill with Foreground color #f8f0bf.

12. Open Mask klobe-mbbmmask-06-orig.jpg on your desktop. Go back to your working image.

13. Layers/New Mask Layer/From Image. Select the Mask from drop down arrow and click OK to apply.

14. Merge/Merge Group.

15. From Aras4.pspimage, Copy center layer Tube of little girl. Paste as New Layer.

16. Image/Resize/Resize by 64%/Resize all layers unchecked.

17. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.

18. Move little girl near bottom right corner.

19. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical -10, Horizontal -30, Opacity 43, Blur 28, color #000000.

20. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical 10, Horizontal 30, Opacity 43, Blur 28, color #000000.

21. Open Floral Boho Moon (6)-resized.png.

22. Using your Selections tool set to Freehand Selection, Point to Point/Mode: Add (Shift)/Feather 0, draw around the moon. Copy. Go back to main image and Paste as New Layer.

23. Image/Resize/Resize by 28%/Resize all layers unchecked.

24. Image/Free Rotate/Rotate Right by 109%/All Layers unchecked.

25. Place moon on top of "egg" shape in Mask in top left corner.

26. Using Color Changer tool, left click foreground color on the pink of the flowers of the moon to change to yellow.

27. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.

28. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical -21, Horizontal -4, Opacity 43, Blur 28, color #000000.

29. Duplicate. Image/Resize/Resize by 68%/Resize all layers unchecked.

30. Move duplicated moon under larger moon.

31. Image/Flip. Flip Horizontal.

32. Duplicate. Image/Resize/Resize by 68%/Resize all layers unchecked.

33. Move second duplicated moon under middle moon.

34. Image/Flip. Flip Horizontal.

35. Merge/Merge Down twice so all moons are on one layer.

36. Layers/New Raster Layer.

37. Using the Pen Tool, draw a line using the Diamond Line style/Width 3.00 and other settings as seen below and in next step.

38. To draw the line, left click on the top of the bottom moon then on the top of the image at the border. Right click/Apply.

39. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical 0, Horizontal 4, Opacity 60, Blur 4, Color #000000.

40. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.

41. Pull line layer beneath moon layer. Go back to the top layer/highlight it to continue.

42. Image/Add Borders/Add 7px Border/Symmetric checked. Color #f8f0bf.

43. Activate with Magic Wand.

44. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel. CTRL+D.

45. Image/Add Borders/Add 20px border. Symmetric checked. Color #2c7a87.

46. Activate with Magic Wand. Layer/New Raster Layer.

47. Open 20pxBorder.pspimage. Copy/Paste into Selection. CTRL+D.

48. Image/Add Borders/Add 5px border, Symmetric checked, color #2c7a87.

49. Activate using Magic Wand. Apply Inner Bevel. Same settings as Step 44. CTRL_D.

50. Image/Add Borders/Add 5px border, Symmetric checked, color #f8f0bf.

51. Activate using Magic Wand. Apply Inner Bevel. Same settings as Step 44. CTRL_D.

52. Apply your name or watermark if you wish. Save as .png or .jpg file.

Thank you Pam for once again checking my work. It is much appreciated.

If you are going to use this tutorial for stationery, cards or place the tutorial/tag on another site, I would appreciate you contacting me for permission, giving Arasimages credit for the original tutorial and if possible, a link back to my site. Thank you.