Create your Own Lilacs
You'll be using individual PSP Tube flowerettes, in 4 colors, to create your own display of lilacs.
>> Here is the Supply Folder <<
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PSP ~ Open the vase, the leaves, and all four lilacs files
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Each Lilac File :- go to File > Export > Picture Tube
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Enter these settings :
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Close the psp file
Next, go to your vase canvas. Yes, it's very large.. that's so you can have lots of room to play around. you'll resize and crop later
You'll want to create each lilac cone on it's own layer.. so add a New Raster overtop the vase
Open your Picture Tube Tool..choose a color of lilac and begin :
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You'll not need to 'click, click, click'.. tho you can to add individual flowers here and there
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Click into the canvas with your tube , hold the click like you're using a paintbrush..and move it around
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I found it easiest to go back and forth in an arc from stem-end to tip ..wider at the top and tapering toward the end. It gives a more realistic form to the flowers (so they don't have a uniform cone shape)
When you've added all your lilacs :
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Open your Mover Tool
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Click one cone
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Add this drop shadow :
<<<<<You'll see that it creates a layer of shadow below the flower..and that they'll link together .. If you move that flower anywhere, the shadow will stick to it.
The Reason I have you add the shadow to a new layer is so that you can change the blend mode at the shadow :
- Choose 'LuminanceL'
- Click with your Mover into another cone and add a shadow..etc, etc.
When you're happy with your flowers :
- Copy each leaf and paste just above the vase layer.. each on it's own layer
I used the Deformation tool to squeeze/resize/deform them and rotate them.
When happy with your placement = Add a drop shadow to each and change the Blend Modes
This is how I created the shadow under the vase and flowers :
- Highlight bottom layer
- Open Preset Shape Tool = Elipse
- No Stroke
- Fill = Black
draw it out like this (note it's not high into the back of vase) :
- Then add Blur > Motion Blur
- Re-center the elipse
- Drop the Opacity to 30 ..change the Blend Mode
- Duplicate the Elipse
- Deform to stretch to about the width of your flowers above.. Drop the Opacity :
Note**
Do not Merge Visible yet!!
Add your background first..or you'll lose the the LuminanceL of the shadows that are outside the flowers and below the vase.
..that's the basics! the rest is all up to you
Please, do not add Šrae to your result! .. This is Your Creation ~ not mine :)
Have fun !
raepsst = please do not copy/redistribute this mini-tut nor files