A Fathers Love


Supplies Here 

Open Paint Shop Pro I used version9 (but you can do it with any version with minor changes)

File / New 500 x 500 Pixels / Transparent checked / Ok

Materials Palette / Choose #af597b in the Foreground and stroke Properties Box and #fdfbfc in 

the background and Fill Properties Box


Tools / Paint Brush Tool / settings: shape circle / size 78 / hardness 100 / step 25 / density 100 

/ thickness 100 / rotation 0 / opacity 100 / blend mode normal / continuous unchecked / wet 

look paint unchecked


Hold down your left mouse button and using the paint brush make wavy lines all over your 

working layer /

Change mouse buttons now and using the paint brush make more wavy lines all over in 

different directions


Click Pan Tool to deselect your brush tool

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur / Radius 80 / ok


Layers Palette / right click on your raster layer and duplicate twice you now have 3 layers

Layers / Merge / Merge all flatten

Effects / Unplugged Tools / Pyramids / Settings: Size 11 / Transparency 129 / Top 255 / Left

 200 / Right 55 / Bottom 0 / ok


Materials Palette / choose a nice Red color or a Red Gradient use your own settings if you use 

a Gradient

Layers Palette / add a new raster layer keep on top and active

Tools / Flood fill Tool

Fill your new layer with your Red

Click pan

Keep on Top and active

Layers / Load Save Mask / Load Mask from Disk / Settings: apheart1 / Source Luminance 

checked / Fit to Canvas Checked / Invert Transparency Unchecked / Hide all Mask Checked / 

Load


Layers / Merge / Merge Group

Tools / Freehand Selection Tool (Lasso tool) / Settings: Point to Point / Mode Add (Shift) / 

Feather 0 / Smoothing 0 / Anti-alias Checked


Draw around the Heart


Click pan

Selections / Invert

Press Delete on your Keyboard now all you should be left with is the Heart Shape



Selections / Select None

Layers Palette / Click on your other layer now called background to activate it

Layers / / Load Save Mask / Load Mask from Disk / Settings: apheart1 / Source Luminance 

checked / Fit to Canvas Checked / Invert Transparency Unchecked / Hide all Mask Checked / 

Load

Layers / Merge / Merge Group




Bottom layer still active

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow / Settings: Offset Vertical 1 / Horizontal 1 / Opacity 50 / Blur 

0 / Black / Ok


Open a Tube of your choice or mine

Remove the Copyright

Right Click on your Tube and choose Copy now close of your Tube

Right Click on your working layer now called background and Paste as a New layer

Tools / Deform Tool

Position your Tube and Resize using the Nodes if needed



Click Pan

Layers / Merge / Merge All (Flatten)

Image / Resize / Width 480 / Height 480 Pixels / Resample Using Checked / Smart Size / Lock

 Aspect Ratio and Resize all Layers Checked

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Image / Add borders / Pixels / Color Black / Symmetric Checked / Top, Left, Right, Bottom all 1 

/ Ok



Image / Add borders / Pixels / Color White / Symmetric Unchecked / Top, Left, Right 5 / Bottom 

60 / Ok

Image / Add borders / Pixels / Color Black / Symmetric Checked / Top, Left, Right, Bottom all 2 

/ Ok


Materials Palette / choose a color for your Name


Tools / Text Tool / Create As Vector / Direction the first one / Font Any / Size Any / Stroke 

Width your choice

In the text Entry Box write your name and click Apply


Layers Palette / Right Click on Vector and Convert to Raster Layer

Add your Copyright

File / Save As Give it a Name

Save type As / PNG / BMP or JPEG



This Tutorial was created and installed by ©Mally on Sunday 26 February 2012

and is the property of

Mally.

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"taken"

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