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Screen shots were taken from PSP7 and as such copyright belongs to JASC

You will need these images.

Save the bark8a1.jpg to a folder of your choice and the bark.bmp to your PSP Patterns folder.

1. In PSP open the bark8a1.jpg, copy and paste as new image, work on the new image, closing the original. Go to layers/properties, a window will open, change the name of the layer to bark. 

2. Go to layer/new raster layer and name it wood. Now flood fill this layer with any solid colour. Go to image/effects/sculpture and choose the Bark as your pattern with these settings or play around until you are happy with the effect.

Save your settings as bark. Now go to the layer palette and drag the wood layer beneath the bark layer so that it is underneath.

3. Click on the bark layer to make it active. We now need to cut out a hole using the lasso tool -point to point, feather 0, antialias checked . Starting at about 50, 60 (you will find this figure in the bottom left of the PSP window) left click to start and keep doing this making an irregular shape, at the end, right click to close.

Now go to edit/cut.

4.  Go to selections/none then image/deformations/warp using these settings

or play around with the size until you are happy with it.

5. Still on the bark layer use your magic wand to select the inside (the hole) and then selections/invert. Go to image/effects outer bevel and use these settings

6. Still keeping the ants marching, go to selections/modify/expand by 1. Click on your wood layer and make a new raster layer naming it shadow. Go to image/effects/cutout using these settings

7. Finally go to selections/none and layers/merge visible and you're done.

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