Anemone pink and white.
Would you like to make a pink and white anemone?
I have made all the selections for you.
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 Stalk. Selections, Load from disk, anemonepink, stalk.sel.
Flood Fill with color #4C6A0A. Effects, Texture, Fine Leather. Settings like
these.
Deselect.
Now, let's load all the petals and Flood Fill with the right colors.
New Layer. Call it Petal1. Selections, Load from disk, petal1.sel.
Flood Fill with color #F6B2DD. Deselect.
New Layer. Call it Petal2. Selections, Load from disk, petal2.sel.
Flood Fill with color #F6B2DD. Deselect.
New Layer. Call it Petal3. Selections, Load from disk, petal3.sel.
Flood Fill with color #FEBCE6. Deselect.
New Layer. Call it Petal4. Selections, Load from disk, petal4.sel.
Flood Fill with color #FEC6EA. Deselect.
New Layer. Call it Petal5. Selections, Load from disk, petal5.sel.
Flood Fill with color #FFBAE5. Deselect.
New Layer. Call it Petal6. Selections, Load from disk, petal6.sel.
Flood Fill with color #FFBAE5. 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 white on Foreground and color #F385CB on Background.
Now you can change between your colors very easy. Make some lines on the petal 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.
New Layer. Selection Tool, Rectangle.
Make a rectangle around the petal.
Click inside. Airbrush 3. Colors: the same as before.
Make some lines on the petal like this.
Effects, Blur, Gaussian Blur 6. Keep it
still selected. Retouch Tool, Smudge, 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.
New Layer. Selection Tool, Rectangle.
Make a rectangle around the petal.
Click inside. Airbrush 3. Colors: the same as before. Put on some paint
like this.
Effects, Blur, Gaussian Blur 6. Keep it
still selected. Retouch Tool, Smudge, 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.
New Layer. Selection Tool, Rectangle.
Make a rectangle around the petal.
Click inside. Airbrush 3. Colors: the same as before. Put on some paint
like this.
Effects, Blur, Gaussian Blur 6. Keep it
still selected. Retouch Tool, Smudge, 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.
New Layer. Selection Tool, Rectangle.
Make a rectangle around the petal.
Click inside. Airbrush 3. Colors: the same as before. Put on some paint
like this.
Effects, Blur, Gaussian Blur 6. Keep it
still selected. Retouch Tool, Smudge, 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.
New Layer. Selection Tool, Rectangle.
Make a rectangle around the petal.
Click inside. Airbrush 3. Colors: the same as before. Put on some paint
like this.
Effects, Blur, Gaussian Blur 6. Keep it
still selected. Retouch Tool, Smudge, as before.
Make strokes against the centre.
Close all layers except this layer and
Layer Petal6.
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Petal6. Deselect.
Layers. View, All. My flower looks like this.
Now you have time to watch the whole
picture.
Do you like to change anything, do so now. I want some more white color
at the centre of my petals. Stand on the petal you want to change.
Selection Tool, Rectangle.
Make a rectangle around the petal. Click inside.
Now you can add the colors you like and then Smudge them again. Deselect.
Stand on Layer Petal6. New Layer. Call it
Centre. Selections, Load from disk,
centre.sel.
Flood Fill with color #5B5757. Effects, Texture, Fine Leather as below.
Deselect.
New Layer, Call it Dots. Airbrush 4, Round. Black color
and darkgrey color.
Make some dots with those two colors around the pistil, like this.
This is your flower now,
Close Layer Stalk and Dots. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Flower.
Now to the leaves.
Stand on Layer
Stalk. New Layer. Call it Leaf1.
Selections, Load from disk,
leaf1.sel.
Flood Fill with color #305B05.
New Layer.
Make some lines with color #5C7B09 and Airbrush1.
Use Retouch Tool, Smudge. The same settings as before and smudge the lines a bit.
Deselect. Close all other layers. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Leaf1.
New Layer. Call it Leaf2. Selections, Load from disk,
leaf2.sel.
Flood Fill with color #4F6410. New Layer. Make some lines with color #5C7B09 and
Airbrush1.
Retouch Tool, Smudge. The same settings as before and smudge the lines a little.
Deselect. Close all other layers. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Leaf2.
Close Layer Flower and Dots. Layers, Merge,
Merge Visible to the rest. Call it Leaves.
Now you are Done.
I suggest that you don't Merge the Layers
until later, when you will use them in another Image.
Use Copy and Paste. If you don't Merge, you can change color of the flower by using Color, Colorize
or Color, Adjust, Red/Green/Blue
and the leaves will still stay green. See my picture below.
