Mapie's Tutorials

Made in Paintshop Pro 8, but can be done in other versions

Tools needed:

Flower Tube and Gradient Here
(extract the gradient into your gradient folder)

Download the shoe HERE or HERE (Brenda, I can't reply to you, as your email keeps bouncing back)
A Kim Harlow shoe

Filter Attack Here

Open your tubes and minimize....

Open a new image 500x300

Set you foreground to mqc-bars gradient and your background to white

Fill your image

Go to Effect....Filter Attack....and choose border: linien
(use the up or down arrow)

Add a bevel with this setting....

Go to Image...resize and choose 75%....all layers checked!

Open up your rose tube....right click on the blue bar and click on 'copy'

Go back to your image and right click on the blue bar and click on
'paste as new layer'

On your layer palette, change the opacity of that layer to around 12

Right click again on your image and choose 'paste as new layer'
( the rose tube should still be there in memory)

Resize that layer to 50%....all layers unchecked!

Give it a drop shadow....

With your mover tool, move it to the left top corner

In your layer palette, click on duplicate.....then 'image...flip'

You should have this so far....

Open your shoe tube.....right click on the blue bar and choose 'copy'

Back to your main image and right click on the blue bar and choose
'paste as new layer'

With your mover tool, move the shoe to the right...
(Scroll to the top to see where I put it :-)

Give it the same drop shadow....

New raster layer....

Change your foreground color to nil and your background color to #C00000

Click on your text tool and pick your font (I used 'Park Avenue BT') set to 55 and type your name

Bevel with the same bevel as before....move it where you like it with your mover tool

Merge either visible and take it to animation shop to save as a gif for transparancy
or merge flatten and save as a jpg or png

If you want a background, before merging, add a new layer and move to the bottom...

Fill with the color of your choice and maybe add a texture

Then Merge Flatten

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial :-)