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Enamel Jewelry
In this tutorial, we will use Paint Shop Pro 5 and Blade Pro to do the following:
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On the first page, we created improved opals using a Blade Pro preset. |
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On this page, we will look at ways of using Blade Pro to make the enameled decorations using dingbats and a Blade Pro preset which is part of the download from the previous page. |
Please note, everything on this page was created using PSP 5 and Blade Pro with the exception of the violets on the button background. No actual jewelry was scanned.
| Step 1 | Open a 100 x 100 pixel image with a white background. |
| Step 2 | Add a layer called Base and flood fill with a solid color. |
| Step 3 | Lay down a dingbat with floating and anti-alias checked. Save to the alpha channel as Top. (I used "3" from the Vintage dingbat at a size of 60.) |
| Step 4 | Apply Blade Pro with the "gold, basic" preset. |
| Step 5 | Promote the floating selection to a new layer called Top. Turn off the visibility of this layer. |
| Step 6 | Go back to the Base layer and load the Top selection. Flood fill the selection with a color. |
| Step 7 | Duplicate this layer and call it Working. Turn off visibility of this new layer. |
| Step 8 | Go back to the Base layer and use the magic wand to select the area outside of the dingbat. I used a feather of 1 and a tolerance of 0. |
| Step 9 | Clear this selection. The background should be visible outside the dingbat. |
| Step 10 | Invert the selection and save to the alpha channel as Base. |
| Step 11 | Apply the Blade Pro basic gold preset to the inverted selection, but run the radius down. (You need to play with this, but 5 worked for me in this example.) |
| Step 12 | Go to the Working layer, and turn it on. Select none.
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| Step 13 | Go back to the Working layer and repeat the above for the leaves, flood filling them with a deep green. You made need to play with the feather and tolerance levels as you go through these steps to get the selections you really want. |
| Step 14 | It is probably a good idea, at this point, to save the whole thing off as a PSP file to act a a "master" if you want to reuse it or make changes. |
| Step 15 | Turn off visibility for the Working layer and the Background. Make sure that all of the layers you want to use are visible. Do a merge of the visible layers. |
| Step 16 | You can now copy your piece of enamel jewelry and paste it onto a background. It works well if a drop shadow is added. The results are presented here and all over these pages. |
Of course, more or less colors can be used, if the dingbat
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