Poinsettia.

© Louise G

In order to make this flower, you have to get my Selections here.
Unzip the Selections, and save it in your PSP selections-folder.
Call it Poinsettia.

Dont forget to save often and do so in PSP-format, so your picture can be transparent.

Let´s start with a New Image, 400 x 400, transparent.
Fill the Layer with white color. So you can look at your picture with a background.
 Close the Layer.

New Layer. Call it Leaf1. Go to your PSP selection-folder, find Poinsettia and get Leaf1.sel
Fill the veins with color #8BC35D. Use Airbrush 20. It is much easier that way.
Fill the rest of the leaf with # 5BB816 + # 53BD0D. Take the colors on different parts. Preferably
you can take the left side of the leaf with the lighter color and the right side with the darker.
Selection Tool. Make a rectangle around the leaf. Click inside it. Go to Effects, Cutout, with these settings.

New Layer. Call it Leaf2.  Selections, Load from disk. Get Leaf2.sel.
Do the same colouring as earlier and the same Cutout.

New Layer. Call it Leaf3. Selections, Load from disk. Get Leaf3.sel.
Do the same colouring as earlier and the same Cutout.
Merge Visible and call the Layer  Leaf.

New Layer. Call it flcentre. Selections, Load from disk. Get flcentre.sel.
Fill with # DEEA16. Cutout as earlier.

It now looks like this.

Close all Layers.

New Layer. Call it flbase. Selections, Load from disk. Get flbase.sel.
Fill the petals with # F86262. Cutout as earlier.

New Layer. Call it Veins1. Selections, Load from disk. Get veins1.sel.
Fill with #FB2F2F.  Merge Visible. Call the Layer, flbase. Close the Layer.

The flower look like this now.

New Layer. Call it flmiddle. Selections, Load from disk. Get flmiddle.sel.
Fill the petals with #FB2F2F + E63A3A . Put different colors on different petals. Cutout as earlier.

New Layer. Call it vains2. Selections, Load from disk. Get veins2.sel.
Give them color # D63C3C. Merge Visible. Call the Layer, flmiddle. Close the Layer.

New Layer. Call it fltop. Selections, Load from disk. Get fltop.sel.
Fill the petals with # E25656 + F52727. Put different colors on different petals. Cutout as earlier.

New Layer. Call it veins3. Selections, Load from disk. Get veins3.sel.
Fill the veins with # BF3B3B. Merge Visible. Call the Layer, fltop. Close the Layer.

New Layer. Call it pistil1. Selections, Load from disk. Get pistil1.sel.
Fill with # 8DBE16. Make little red marks on the pistils. Retoush Tool, Soften on the red marks.

New Layer. Call it pistil2. Selections, Load from disk. Get pistil2.sel.
Fill with # FAFC24. Make little red marks on the pistils. Retoush Tool, Soften on the red marks.
Merge Visible. Call the Layer Pistils.
Close all Layers. Stand on Layer1. Delete it.

 Layers, View all. Merge Visible
and your Poinsettia is done!

With different colors your flower can look like this.

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