Cerise anemone.

Wouldn't you like to have this flower in your garden?
At least you can have it in your graphics now, by making this tutorial.

For you, I have made all the selections you'll  need.
Get them here and zip them up in your PSP, Selections folder.

Start with a New Image, 400 x 400, transp, 16 mill.
New Layer. Call it Petal1. Selections, Load from disk, anemonecerise, petal1.sel.
Flood Fill with color #D9399F. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Petal2. Selections, Load from disk, petal2.sel.
Flood Fill with color #DE3AA6. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Petal3. Selections, Load from disk, petal3.sel.
Flood Fill with color #DE3AA6. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Petal4. Selections, Load from disk, petal4.sel.
Flood Fill with color #ED2FA8. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Petal5. Selections, Load from disk, petal5.sel.
Flood Fill with color #EA2EA5. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Petal6. Selections, Load from disk, petal6.sel.
Flood Fill with color #FC0DAB. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Petal7. Selections, Load from disk, petal7.sel.
Flood Fill with color #F14DB5. Deselect.

This is what you will have now.

Stand on Petal1. Selection Tool, Rectangle. Make a rectangle around the petal. Click inside.
New Layer. Airbrush 3. Color #FC64C5. Make some lines on the petal like this.

Change to color #A50969 and make some other lines like this.

Effects, Blur, Gaussian Blur 6. Keep it still selected. Retouch Tool, Smudge.

Make fine little strokes towards the centre.

Close all layers except this layer and Layer Petal1.
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Petal1.
Deselect.

Stand on Petal2. Selection Tool, Rectangle. Make a rectangle around the petal. Click inside.
New Layer. Airbrush 3. Color #FC64C5 and color #A50969, the same as you used before.
Use one color on Foreground and the other one on Background. That makes it a bit quicker to paint.
Make some lines on the petal like this.

Effects, Blur, Gaussian Blur 6. Keep it still selected. Retouch Tool, Smudge.
The same settings as before. Make strokes against the centre.

Close all layers except this layer and Layer Petal2.
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Petal2.
Deselect.

Stand on Petal3. Selection Tool, Rectangle. Make a rectangle around the petal. Click inside.
New Layer. Airbrush 3. Colors the same as you used before. Put on some paint like this.

Effects, Blur, Gaussian Blur 6. Keep it still selected. Retouch Tool, Smudge.
The same settings as before. Make strokes against the centre.

Close all layers except this layer and Layer Petal3.
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Petal3.
Deselect.

Stand on Petal4. Selection Tool, Rectangle. Make a rectangle around the petal. Click inside.
New Layer. Airbrush 3. Colors the same as you used before. Put on some paint like this.

Effects, Blur, Gaussian Blur 6. Keep it still selected. Retouch Tool, Smudge.
The same settings as before. Make strokes against the centre.

Close all layers except this layer and Layer Petal4.
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Petal4.
Deselect.

Stand on Petal5. Selection Tool, Rectangle. Make a rectangle around the petal. Click inside.
New Layer. Airbrush 3. Colors the same as you used before. Put on some paint like this.

Effects, Blur, Gaussian Blur 6. Keep it still selected. Retouch Tool, Smudge.
The same settings as before. Make strokes against the centre.

Close all layers except this layer and Layer Petal5.
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Petal5.
Deselect.

Stand on Petal6. Selection Tool, Rectangle. Make a rectangle around the petal. Click inside.
New Layer. Airbrush 3. Colors the same as you used before. Put on some paint like this.

Effects, Blur, Gaussian Blur 6. Keep it still selected. Retouch Tool, Smudge.
The same settings as before. Make strokes against the centre.

Close all layers except this layer and Layer Petal6.
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Petal6.
Deselect.

Stand on Petal7. Selection Tool, Rectangle. Make a rectangle around the petal. Click inside.
New Layer. Airbrush 3. Colors the same as you used before. Put on some paint like this.

Effects, Blur, Gaussian Blur 6. Keep it still selected. Retouch Tool, Smudge.
The same settings as before. Make strokes against the centre.

Close all layers except this layer and Layer Petal7.
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Petal7.
Deselect.

Make all layers visible.

This is how your flower might look now.

Now is your chance to use a little more Smudge, if you are not satisfied with the looks.
Stand on the layer you want to change and take some more Smudge there.

Stand on Layer Petal1. Selection Tool. Make a rectangle around the petal. Click inside.
Effects, 3D, Cutout, with these settings.

Deselect.

Take the same Cutout on all petals.

Drag Layer Petal6 under Petal5 in your Layers Palette.
New Layer. Call it Centre. Selections, Load from disk, centre.sel.
Flood Fill with color white. Deselect. Effects, Blur, Gaussian Blur 9.

New Layer. Call it Pistill. Preset Shapes, Ellipse. Black color on both Fore- and Background.
Make an ellipse 50 x 60. Place it at the centre of the flower.
Effects, Texture, Fine Leather as below.

New Layer, Airbrush 6, Round. Black color and darkgrey color.
Make some dots with those two colors around the pistil, like this.

This is your flower so far.

Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Flower.

New Layer. Call it Stalk. Selections, Load from disk, stalk.sel.
Flood Fill with color #42570B. Selection Tool, Rectangle.
Make a rectangle around the petal. Click inside. Effects, 3D, Cutout as below.

Deselect.

Drag this layer to the bottom in your Layers Palette.

New Layer. Call it Leaves. Selections, Load from disk, leaves.sel.
Flood Fill with color #5C7B09 and color #435804.

Keep the leaves selected.

New Layer. Make some darker parts on the leaves, like this,
with Airbrush 3. Color #2F480E.

Effects, Blur, Gaussian Blur 6. Keep it selected.

New Layer. Airbrush 2, color #4E6036.
Make some veins along the leaves. Deselect.

Close Layer Flower and Layer Stalk. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Leaves.

Be sure you have Layer Stalk at the bottom in your Layers Palette,
then Layer Leaves and at the top Layer Flower. Layers, Wiew, All.
This is what you will see now.

Layers, Merge, Merge Visible and you are done!

Here I have made some anemones in different colors and put them together. Nice bouquet isn't it?

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