For this tutorial you will need Paint Shop Pro 7,  and this zip file   Unzip the selection to your selection folder, if you don't have it you'll need to create one, the D_Gold Fold into your PSP Pattern folder and open the mask in your PSP window.

Open a new transparent image 400x400 flood fill with black (this is only for better view, when you finish you can change your background) add a new layer and flood fill with color #BFB477, go to Masks>New>From Image and choose the wreath mask:

Go to Masks>Delete and is going to ask you if you want to merge the mask, answer "Yes".

With the Magic Wand Tolerance and Feather "0", click inside the wreath and go to Selections>Modify>Expand "1", add a new layer and flood fill with the gold pattern.

Deselect and go to the Layer Palette and change that layer to "Dissolve" and lower the opacity to 8:

Add a new layer, turn the Foreground to "Null" and the Background with the gold color , select the Preset Shapes Tool and in the Tool Options select the Star#2, Antialias checked and Vector UNchecked and draw some Stars on top of your wreath.  NOTE: If you hold your Shift Key and draw the Stars with the right click they will turn any way you want.

Turn off visibility of Layer 1 and merge visible.

Add a new layer for the bow, with your gold for the Background.  Use your Draw Tool Freehand Line, Width doesn't matter, Solid Line, Antialias checked.  Start at the center of the bow  (where the pointing fingers are) and draw a swirly line and cross back and forth as you return, finishing at the same point where you started, see screenshot below.  To me its easier to do it using vectors but you can do it without them too.

If you don't want to do it you can load my selection :o) APgwbow.sel and flood fill it with the gold pattern Angle "45" Scale "100", add a new layer and load APgwbow1.sel and flood fill with the pattern but change the Angle to "0" and Scale to "20", add a drop shadow: Vertical and Horizontal "0", Opacity "80" and Blur "3.5".

Turn off visibility of Layer 1, merge visible and save.  Now you can change your background.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, if you have any questions or comments please email me

Thank you Donna!!!

 

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