Colouring and shading a Digistamp in PSP Part Two

 

Step Five

Working on our outside panels layer 

 

Selections: Select All : Float : Defloat

ADD A NEW LAYER :  

 

Select your Airbrush with these settings

 

 

 

With White as your foreground colour draw a line in the centre of the panels starting and ending just short of the frame

(if it helps you can rotate the image 90 degrees to get the long panels neat and straight)

 

 

 

Blur : Gaussian Blur : Radius 8

 

Lower the layer opacity in your layer palette to 70%  

 

Merge this layer Down to the outside panel layer and deselect

Step Six

 

Repeat the Last step for the Inner panels  

Changing the settings for the Airbrush to this

 

 Notice I have changed the size and the opacity to 45 due to the size reduction of these panels

 

Step Seven

 

Working on the Hearts layer 

Selections: Select All : Float : Defloat

 

 

ADD A NEW LAYER :  

 

Select your Airbrush with these settings

 

Notice I have changed the size to 35 and the opacity to 45  and the blend mode to Luminance 

 

With a darker version of your heart colour draw a small V shape around the dent at the top of the hearts

 

 Reduce the layer to  60%

 

Merge this layer Down to the hearts layer and deselect 

 

Step Eight

 

Working on the thick Middle Panels layer 

 

Selections: Select All : Float : Defloat

 

 

ADD A NEW LAYER :  

 

Select your Airbrush with these settings

 

Notice I have changed the size to 200 and the opacity to 65 

 

wWith the very centre of the brush on the marching ants  draw round the panels

including the  connecting slanted lines 

 

 Do this for all the panels  but only go over the connecting lines once

 

 reduce the layer to  50% 

 

Merge this layer Down  and Deselect 

 

Merge All Layers 

and you should have something like this

 

So now i have shown you  the Basic  steps  use your own colours and settings  

I have included a harder  stamp in the supplies for you to get used to changing brush and shadow settings 

 

Try:  Using a very pale version of your colours for the highlight instead of white

Try:  Whilst adding  the white highlight you can repeat the cut-out if  you feel the shadow is not dark enough

Try:  Adding a drop shadow to the stamp

Try:  Using all Papers instead of colours

Try:  Using different textures on different parts

 

I hope this has helped even a small bit

Enjoy 

 

Using Digistamps and Brushes ...Part Four.. Digistamps as a pattern in PSP

In this part we will be using a Digistamp in PSP  and turning it into a pattern and using it for a background paper..


Open your PSP  this will work in all versions... Im using psp9 here  however some of the newer ones will have the tools in a different place..

  What you'll need:  Background paper:   Digistamp:  Colour Palette: Textures

Download the supplies I've used

To read about digistamps and how to install PS and AI brushes got to the files pages above or click here

open your PSP Files file folder and find the Patterns folder

go into here and make a new folder and call it digistamps

now open the zip with your supplies in or a digistamp of your own and drag or copy/paste into your new folder within "patterns"

Now open PSP

Open a paper of your choice or a new image and flood fill this with a colour or gradient

heres mine

Now on your materials palette click on the foreground to open it

click on the Pattern tab

then the tiny arrow next to the preview this will open another menu with a drop down box at the top

find your new digistamps folder and open that

now choose the stamp you want to use 

make sure your tools are set to flood fill

now set your angle and scale..this is a matter of trial and error  most digistamps are quite large to allow for full page use  if making the scale too much smaller detracts from the pattern you can adjust the scale of the stamp in the folder say make it 50% smaller  youll get the idea once you start playing

Make new layer on your paper or image and flood fill with the pattern  here ive used the large damask stamp  it is a biggie so ive set the angle at 45 and the scale at 16 and got this.

Try different scales and angles till  you get a pattern you are happy with

Now we can recolour the pattern layer or use different blend and textures as we did in the previous tutorials.

luminance blend

Try changing the colour of the stamp layer

Try different textures