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By doing this tutorial you agree to my
terms of use, however the
resulting image is yours to do with whatever you please. For this tutorial you will need
PSP7 and Super BladePro. The
BladePro preset used is Gold_Old obtained here. For this tutorial we are going to be using vector shapes, only one *s* and a fair amount of selecting.
1. I like a lot of elbow room when I'm working plus it is easier to make an image smaller than it is to make it bigger, so open an image with a transparent background 400x400. With the preset tool set to ellipse, antialias and vector checked, foreground and background set to white draw out an ellipse.
When you are happy with the shape right click the vector layer and convert to raster. Right click again and duplicate. With the mover tool move the duplicated image up and to the left.
2. With the draw tool, foreground white, background null, set to bezier curve, line width 3, vector and antialias checked draw the first line from the outer edge of the top ellipse down to the bottom. If you've not used the bezier curve before this is what you will have and you will be wondering where your line is *s*
Place your mouse to the top left of the curve, click and hold, you will see a handle appear, slightly drag the handle, let go and then go towards the bottom of the line, click and hold the mouse, you will see another handle appear, drag this out slightly. All we're doing is the rounded edge to the ring, if you're not happy with the shape you can always use the undo button.
Try to make it so that the edge of the line doesn't poke out from the ellipse, if it does just move it slightly. We need to make a curve for the other side, right click layer3 in the layer palette, the bezier curve, duplicate, image/mirror, image/flip and place the curve to the other side.
3. This is what your layer palette should look like
Right click layer3 and convert to raster, do the same for copy of layer3. With the paint brush tool, foreground white, size 20, hardness 100, opacity 100, step 20, density 100, paint inside the bezier curve either side, try not to go over the edge of the curve.
4. In the layer palette, click the glasses of layer1 and layer2 to make invisible, right click one of the other layers, merge visible.
Click on the glasses of layers 1 & 2 to make visible again. In the layer palette, click layer2 to make active. Selections/select all, with the selection tool click the ellipse to get the marching ants, click the merged layer to make active and delete. Selections/select none. Click layer2 then click the bin in the layer palette to delete the layer. This is what you should now have.
5. In the layer palette, right click and rename to front, right click and duplicate the front layer renaming this to back, then drag the back layer down to below the front layer. Making sure you are working on the back layer go to image/flip, image/mirror. Magnify your image and place the back layer so that it lines up with the front layer.
Now you can stop right here and apply BladePro for a plain ring or you can carry on and add some decoration and use Super BladePro.
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