Artistic Passion Tutorials

Sunny Delight

Supplies Needed

Paint Shop Pro
Tubes of choice [by the same artist]
Font of choice
Embellishments of choice
WSL_Mask10 by Chelle [Thanks babe xxx]

Artwork © Rion Vernon.
You need to purchase a licence to use Rion’s adorable artwork.
Visit CILM to get yours!
Please note, I purchased mine from GILD before Rion went to CILM.

Lets begin!

1. Open a new canvas. Mine was 550×550 as I was using my GILD tubes.
Floodfill with white.
Using a colour from your tube draw out a rectangle with your rectangle preset shape.
Foreground – your colour, Background – Null, Line Width – 10.
Convert to Raster Layer.

2. Using your magic wand, select the inside of your rectangle.
Selections – Modify – Expand – 4.
Floodfill with another colour from your tube.
Selections – Select None.
Layers – Arrange – Move Down.

3. Once again, using your rectangle preset shape tool draw out another rectangle.
Foreground – Null, Background – same colour as the first rectangle.
Draw out a smaller rectangle in the middle of your larger one.
[see finished tag for reference]
Layers – Convert to Raster layer.
With your magic wand, click on this layer.
Selections – Modify – Contract – 5.
Layer – New Raster Layer. Floodfill with a lighter colour.
Keep Selected!

4. Copy and Paste your tubes of choice as new layers.
Once you have them how you like them, Selections – Invert. Hit the delete key on your keyboard on every tube layer.
Selections – None.
I then merged all my tube layers into one layer.
Duplicate this layer.
Effects – Texture Effects – Blinds with the following settings:
[change the colour to one from your tube]

Lower the opacity of both tube layers to 30 or so.

5. Make the first frame you made active.
Bring it to the top of your layer palette.
Effects – Texture Effects – Weave with the following settings:
[change to a colour from your tube]

Apply a drop shadow of V & H [1] Opacity [40] Blur [4] Colour [Black]
Then another with the following: V & H [0] Opacity [40] Blur [4] Colour [Black]

6. Activate your pen tool. Line width 2, colour from your tube, Line Style – Repeating Arrows.
Draw out a line of arrows. Convert to Raster Layer.
Duplicate this layer. Image – Mirror, Image – Flip.
Place them into position.
Still on Pen tool. Line width 2, Line Style – Diamonds.
Draw out a line of diamonds. Duplicate as many times as you want and place in position.

7. At this stage I hid my background layer and merged all my other layers.
Add your main tube and give it a drop shadow of choice.

8. Make your background layer active.
Layers – New Raster Layer.
Floodfill with a colour from your tube.
Apply Chelle’s mask [WSL_Mask10].
Add your embellishments of choice.

9. Add your name in a font of choice.
I used ZiptyDo at size 36.
Add the artist copyrights and your taggers mark and you’re done!

Thank you for trying out my tutorial.

Here is another example!

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