Angel of the Garden

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

For a German and Italian translation click on the flags.

This tutorial was written using Paint Shop Pro 2020 Ultimate 32 bit. Plugins used in this tutorial are Graphics Plus/Cross Shadow, DragonFly/Sinedots II, and effects of PSP itself. Unzip the Materials in a folder you make on your desktop called Angel of the Garden. Place your masks in your PSP Files/Masks folder. Export the heart brush into your PSP Files/Brush folder. Place your BorderFill.png in your Pattern Folder. Open the Font on to your desktop when you want to use it or place it in your PSP Files/Fonts folder. Duplicate the tubes and use the duplicates to work with. Close out the originals to keep them from getting deleted. Save your work often! To work this tutorial, it is helpful if you have some working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro.

The tube used in this tutorial I have made in an AI generator. (There are hundreds of new AI tubes in my PSP tubes/AI section; please feel free to use these any way you wish).

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

1. In Materials Palette, set the Foreground to color #ebcdad, Background color to #9ca082.

2. File/New. New Image 768px by 768px. Flood fill with #ffffff.

3. Effects/DragonFly/Sinedots II. Open Sinedots, change blend to Normal, Change color to #a98881. Change all of the settings to read as you see below.)

4. Layers/New Raster Layer. Flood fill with #ebcdad.

5. Layers/Load/Save Mask. Load Mask from Disk. From drop down arrow, select Narah_Mask_0900. Load.

6. Merge/Merge Group. Lower Opacity down to 74. Pull mask upward to 50px at top left corner. See image below.

7. Effects/Image Effects/Seamless Tiling.

8. Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance.

9. Layers/New Raster Layer. Flood fill with #9ca082.

10. Layers/Load/Mask. Load Mask from Disk. From drop down arrow select Narah_Mask_0801-vi. Load.

11. Merge/Merge Group.

12. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel.

13. Open AngeloftheGardenTube.pspimage. Copy/Paste as New Layer.

14. Image/Resize/Resize by 68%/Resize all layers unchecked.

15. Move lady down to fit at bottom and to the left so her dress touches edge of image.

16. Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance.

17. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical -17, Horizontal -10, Opacity 60, Blur 27, color #000000.

18. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.

19. Layers/New Raster Layer. In Materials palette change Foreground color to #ffffff/Background to #a98881. Create a Gradient made from Corel_06_029 foreground/Background, Sunburst, Repeats 3, Invert checked, Center Points/Focal Points all set to 50.

20. From tool bar select Selections set to Rectangle/Add(Shift)/Feather 0, draw a rectangle similar to what I have below. Does not have to be exact, just large enough for text. (12px high is a good number).

21. Flood fill with Gradient. Lower Opacity down to 43.

22. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel.

23. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical -17, Horizontal -10, Opacity 60, Blur 27, color #000000.

24. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical 17, Horizontal 10, Opacity 60, Blur 27, color #000000.

25. Deselect. Change the Foreground gradient to Color #a98881, Background color to #9ca082.

26. Layers/New Raster Layer.

27. From Tool bar, select the Text tool. Choose Edwardian Script ITC, Size 48, Font color #9ca082, Center. Type out "Angel of the Garden". Convert to Raster Layer.

28. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical 1, Horzontal 2, Opacity 55, Blur 1, Color #000000.

29. Using same settings, type out "Watching over the Flowers". Convert to Raster Layer.

30. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical 1, Horzontal 2, Opacity 55, Blur 1, Color #000000.

31. Move both texts so that they fit nicely in the selected rectangle. Merge/Merge Down.

32. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel as in Step #22.

33. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.

34. Duplicate the text so it will show brighter.

35. From the Tool bar select the Paint Brush tool. Find the brush Swirl Heart. Set the size to 100 leaving all other settings at default.

36. Layers/New Raster Layer.

37. Right click (stamp) once on the bottom left corner using background color.

38. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow. Vertical 1, Horizontal 2, Opacity 55, Blur 1, color #000000.

39. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel as in Step #22.

40. Duplicate. Image/Mirror. Mirror Horizontal.

41. Move the duplicated heart so it sets nicely on the right bottom corner. See example below for both hearts.

42. Effects/3D Effects/Buttonize, color #ffffff.

43. Image/Add Borders/Add 3px border, Symmetric checked, color #a98881.

44. Activate the 3px border by clicking with Magic Wand. Apply an Inner Bevel as you did in Step 22. Deselect.

45. Image/Add Borders/Add 15px border, Symmetric checked, color #ffffff.

46. Open BorderFill.png. In Materials Palette, set to Pattern, click on BorderFill, Angle 0/Scale 70.

47. Using Magic Wand, highlight the 15px border. Flood fill with BorderFill.

48. Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur, Radius set to 15.

49. Effects/Graphics Plus/Cross Shadow.

50. Effects/Art Media Effects/Brush Strokes.

51. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel as in Step 22. Deselect.

52. Image/Add Borders/Add 3px border, Symmetric checked, color #a98881.

53. Activate with Magic Wand. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel as in Step 22. Deselect.

54. Layers/New Layer. Sign your name or leave your watermark if you wish.

55. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen. Merge/Merge Down.

Thank you Pam for checking this tutorial for me. I appreciate all of your PSP work you help me with. February 4, 2026.

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.