I would like to thank two very special friends for encouraging me and for trying out the different presets prior to this one, you always give my tuts a workout and encourage me, you know who you are.................thankyou :o)

Remember to save you work often. I am not in the habit of giving this reminder in my tutorials, this is something you should do automatically :o) Say's she who is always getting caught by a dreaded PSP freeze *vbg*

1. Open a new image 400x 400. Set the foreground colour to what ever you want your napkin to be, I used #E3BBA7, null the background. With the draw tool , single line, width 35, set to circles-di, antialias checked. Draw a line down the right hand side of your canvas, because the width is fairly deep do not start and finish too close to the edge. Duplicate the layer, then rotate to the right by 90 degrees and line it up with the bottom circle. Merge visible.
2. Ctrl+A (select all), Ctrl+F (float), double click the selection tool to open the selection area window. Check surround current area, OK. You should now have a square selection. Create a new layer and flood fill with your napkin colour. Ctrl+D (select none).
3. Make the merged layer active, the circled line, with the magic wand click the transparent area, selections, modify, expand by 1. Make your square layer active. With the eraser erase the edge of the square that goes beyond the circled edge. Crtl+D. Merge visible. Rename this layer napkin.
4. Duplicate the napkin layer and rename it edging. Ctrl+A, Ctrl+F, selections, modify, contract by 6, delete. Ctrl+D. In the layer palette make the napkin layer invisible . We only need the rounded part of the edge, so with the eraser erase the straight edges graduating at the rounded corner. Ctrl+A, Ctrl+F. Effects, plugin filters, Flaming Pear, Super BladePro, apply my embroidery setting. Ctrl+D. Bring the napkin layer back into view .

5. Working on the napkin layer, effects, 3D effects, cutout at these settings. Make sure you use the same colour as your napkin for the fill of the cutout, the shadow colour will need to be a few shades darker of your fill.
6. Crtl+A, Ctrl+F, Ctrl+Shft+F, this will select, float and defloat the napkin. Create a new layer, with the airbrush at the shown settings using a lighter shade of the napkin, I used #F4E3DA, dab some colour on to the napkin, this does not need to be too dense. Effects, blur, motion blur, angle 0 pixels 15. While still selected create a new layer, repeat the airbrush and motion blur but change the angle to 90. Ctrl+D. Merge layers visible, rename the merged layer to napkin.
7. Create a new layer. We will now make some decorations for the napkin. You can either draw your own or use a dingbat. I used the Floral Design dingbat available here. If you are using this dingbat I chose A, size 36, antialias & floating checked. Apply my embroidery preset, if the stitching does not look right I have included 2 bmp files for the preset, while in SBP click bmp and load the stitch2.bmp, this will give a different direction to the stitching. Repeat the dingbat or give more detail on separate layers applying the embroidery preset to each layer. When you are happy with your detail you can merge all layers visible and save as a tube or in PSP format or you can go one step further.
8. Make the napkin layer invisible and merge layers visible. You should be left with two layers, the napkin and the merged dingbat/detail layer. Bring the napkin layer back in to view, this should be at the bottom of your layer palette. Duplicate the napkin layer, bring the opacity down to about 70. With the deformation tool bring in the right and bottom edges and by holding Shft move in the bottom left and right corners. Effects, 3D effects, drop shadow, vertical 1, horizontal -1, opacity 46, blur 8.6. Duplicate the napkin layer again, bring down the opacity to about 80 and repeat the deformation and drop shadow. After doing this I noticed the flowers looked too sharp against the napkin so I brought the opacity of the layer down to 85. Merge layers visible and save as a tube or in PSP format.

I am hoping that you will let you're imagination run wild with this tutorial and that you have fun playing :o) I had a little play and came up with this background, if you would like to use it, right click and save to your own hard drive. This is my gift to you, please do not claim it as your own.

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