Crocus 3.

© Louise G

To make this tutorial, you have to get my Crocus selections here.
Zip them up in your PSP, Selections folder.

Start with a New Image, 400 x 400, transparent. Save as psp-format.
New Layer, call it Petal1. Selections, Load from disk, Crocus3, Petal1.
Flood fill with color #EFECEA.

New Layer. Call it Petal2. Selections, Load from disk, Crocus3, Petal2.
Flood fill with #F4F0EF.

New Layer. Call it Petal3. Selections, Load from disk, Crocus3, Petal3.
Flood fill with color #FBFCFC.

New Layer. Call it Petal4. Selections, Load from disk, Crocus3, Petal4.
Flood fill with color #FCFBFC.

New Layer. Call it Petal5. Selections, Load from disk, Crocus3, Petal5.
Flood fill with color #FFFFFF.

This is the flower right now.

Close all layers except Layer Petal1. Selection Tool. Make a rectangle around the petal.
 Click inside it. New Layer. Keep it selected. Airbrush3, color #FBF9F9.
Paint inside the petal like I did.

Retouch Tool, Smudge 4.

Smudge downwards like this.

Deselect. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call the Layer Petal1.

Close Layer Petal1 and stand on Layer Petal2.
Selection Tool. Make a rectangle around the petal.
 Click inside it. New Layer. Keep it selected. Airbrush3, color #F3F3F9 inside the petal
and color #FFFFFF at the top of the petal.
Paint inside the petal like I did. 

Retouch Tool, Smudge 4. Smudge it downwards.

Deselect. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call the Layer Petal2.

Close Layer Petal2 and stand on Layer Petal3.
Selection Tool. Make a rectangle around the petal.
New Layer. Keep it selected.  Airbrush3, color #E2ECF0.

Smudge. Let the strokes go a little to the left.

Deselect. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call the Layer Petal3.

Close Layer Petal3 and stand on Layer Petal4.
Selection Tool. Make a rectangle around the petal.
New Layer. Keep it selected.  Airbrush3. Color #EFEFF8 at the line to the left.
Color #F3EFF1 to the line in the middle and to the right.

Smudge. Let the strokes go to the right.

Deselect. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call the Layer Petal4.

Close Layer Petal4 and stand on Layer Petal5.
Selection Tool. Make a rectangle around the petal.
New Layer. Keep it selected.  Airbrush3, color #F0F0F9 on both sides.
Color #EBE9E1 in the middle.

Smudge. Let the strokes go downwards.

Deselect. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call the Layer Petal5.

Now it is time to have a look at your flower. Layers, View, All.
Do you have to change anything, do so now. Maybee you have to put some more color somewhere
or smudge some more, or change the direction of your strokes.

When I look at my flower, I see that it could need some darker color on Petal1.
Close all layers except Petal1. Selection Tool. Make a rectangle around the petal.
Click inside it. New Layer. Airbrush 3. Color #ECE5E3.

Smudge as before. Deselect. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Save as Petal1.

I did the same with Petal2. It needed some more color where the arrow shows.
Close all layers except Petal2. Selection Tool. Make a rectangle around the petal.
Click inside it. New Layer. Airbrush 3. Color #ECE5E3.

Smudge. Deselect. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Petal2.

Are you satisfied, so let's go on with the pistil.

Stand on Layer Petal2. Close all other Layers. New Layer. Call it Pistil.
Selections, Load from Disk. Load the pistil.sel. Flood fill with color #FEDA32.
New Layer. Call it Pistil. Make small lines with color #FD9643
and four yellow dots with color #FFFF00.

Smudge them just a little.

Deselect. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible.
Layers, View, All.

 If everything looks all right, Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call the Layer, Flower.

Let's make some leaves.

New Layer. Call it Leaf. Preset Shapes, Ellipse.
Color #40720A on both Fore- and Background.
Make an ellipse rather thin.  25 x 385, will do.
New Layer. Color #62860A on both Fore- and Background.
Make an ellipse even narrower. Make it 5 x 340. Put it inside the leaf.
 Duplicate and put that one also inside the leaf.

Close Layer Flower. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible to the rest. Call the Layer Leaf.

New Layer. Call it Stalk. Draw, Single Line 12. Foreground color #40720A. Background closed.
Make the stalk 0 x 140. Make sure the Stalk Layer
is at the bottom in your Layers Palette. Close all other Layers.
Effects, 3D, Inner Bevel as below.

Stand on Layer Flower. Smudge a little just where the flower meets the stalk.

Now your crocus is done! Hope you like what you see!

                                      


If you like, you can colorize the flower with Colors, Adjust, red-green-blue.
That is what I use. Or you can use plain Colorize.

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