Shading The Rose

©Doodles by LadyFox  08/21/06

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This tutorial was done with PSPX   
but could be done with other versions.

All of my tutorials are written following the steps I used to make my graphic.   
It is my hope that you will take what I provide 
and do your own thing with it. 

YOU WILL NEED

Paint Shop Pro -  Download a trial version  
rose palette and Steps.txt, these are both included in the
Bloodsong's hairy brushes
Basic knowledge of vectors and layers

Remember to SaveOften
STEPS - These are the steps I used.

1.

Getting Ready

Unzip the brushes
Open PSP
File/ Import/ Custom Brush
Click the Open button
In the window that opens up find the brush you unzipped
Click Open
Click Add All
OK

The brushes are now ready to use

2.

 Lets Begin

[Shift Key+D] to duplicate the image
Close your original
File/Save As: rose-painted.pspimage

Open pinkrose_jan.jpg
Use it as a guide for shading
 

Open Steps.txt and print it out - Optional
 

Because of all the screen shots following the steps can get confusing I used the same steps for each petal and found that  printed version was a big help I give detailed steps for the first petal but only list changes for the others

Active Layer: Raster 1
Flood fill with black
This makes it easier to see your work

New Raster Layer: colors

Open the rose palette included in the .zip file
Copy and paste the color palette here

I prefer having the colors available on the image I am working on The eyedropper to pick up the color no matter what layer you are on When using the paint brush you can hold down the Ctrl key while moving the mouse over the color and select it that way Right click is for the foreground color and left click for the background color

3.

 Brush Settings

These are the basic brushes I used
I Save these settings so I can use them again
Click the drop down arrow next to presets [red circle]
Click the disk icon [red square]

Type in a name
OK
Now to reset the brushes you just select them again

4.

 Petal One

Active Layer: 1

Layer Palette
Click the padlock to lock the layer transparency

Flood Fill Tool
Match Mode: None
Use all layers: NOT Checked
Blend mode: Normal
Opacity: 100

Flood with color #2

Layer Palette
Click the padlock to unlock the layer transparency

Magic Wand Tool
Mode: replace
Match Mode: RGB Value
Tolerance: 50
Use all layers: NOT Checked
Contiguous: Checked
Feather: 0
Anti-alias: NOT Checked

Click on the petal
Keep selected until all shading and smudging has been done

New Raster Layer: 1 shading 1

Airbrush
Change Hardness to: 1
Change Density to: 1
Change Opacity to: 75

Spray on color# 3

Smudge Brush
Smudge the color outwards towards the edge of the petal
This takes awhile to do

New Raster Layer: 1 shading 2

Airbrush
Change Size to: 10

Spray on color: #1 along the top edge of the petal

Smudge Brush
Smudge the light inward toward the center of the petal

New Raster Layer: 1 shading 3

Airbrush
Change Size back to: 25
Change Hardness to: 0
Change Step to: 1

Spray on color # 4

Smudge Brush
Smudge the color towards the edge of the petal

New Raster Layer: 1 shading 4

Airbrush
Click on the Presets drop down arrow and select the brush
This resets the settings to the originals as saved

Change Size to: 5
Change Hardness to: 25

Spray on color: #1 along the top edge of the petal
I also sprayed on a touch of #808080 for the shadow

Smudge Brush
Click on the Presets drop down arrow and select the brush
Smudge slightly

New Raster Layer: 1 shading 5

Airbrush
Change Size to: 25
Change Hardness to: 5

Spray on color: #5

Smudge Brush
Smudge slightly

Layers/ Merge/ Merge Down
Repeat until you have one shading layer

Selections/ Select None [Ctrl+D]

Using the photo as a guide shade and smudge the remaining petals using the same steps as above

5.

 Petal 2

Active Layer: 2
Effects/ 3D Effects/ Drop Shadow
Offsets: 0
Opacity: 51
Blur: 15
Color: #5 on the chart
Shadow on new layer: Checked
OK

I turned off the black layer so you could see how the drop shadow is in places we don't want

I used the Freehand Selection Tool Set on Point to Point and selected the part I didn't want

New Raster Layer: 2 shading 1

Shade with color #3

Smudge

New Raster Layer: 2 shading 2

Shade with color #1

Smudge

New Raster Layer: 2 shading 3

Shade with color #4

Smudge

New Raster Layer: 2 shading 4

Shade with color #1

Smudge

New Raster Layer: 2 shading 5

Shade with color #5

Smudge

6.

 Petal 3

Active Layer: 3
Effects/ 3D Effects/ Drop Shadow
Offsets: 0
Opacity: 51
Blur: 15
Color: #5 on the chart
Shadow on new layer: Checked
OK

Active Layer: 3
I flood filled this layer with color #3

New Raster Layer: 3 shading 1
I turned off layers so I could see the details

Shade with color #4 & #5
Change Size to: 5

Smudge

New Raster Layer: 3 shading 2

Add more shading if needed

Smudge

Active Layer: 3 details

Smudge slightly

Active Layer: 3 shading 2

New Raster Layer: 3 shading 3

Add more shading as needed

Smudge slightly

7.

 Petal 4

Active Layer: 4
Flood with color #2

Effects/ 3D Effects/ Drop Shadow
Offsets: 0
Opacity: 51
Blur: 15
Color: #5 on the chart
Shadow on new layer: Checked
OK

New Raster Layer: 4 shading 1

Shade with color #3

Smudge

New Raster Layer: 4 shading 2

Shade with color #1 & color #4

Smudge

New Raster Layer: 4 shading 3

Shade with color #4

Smudge

New Raster Layer: 4 shading 4

Shade with color #1, #5 and a little #808080

Smudge

New Raster Layer: 4 shading 5

Reset brush
Shade with color #3 and a little more #808080

Smudge

8.

 Petal 5

Active Layer: 5
Flood with color #2

I realized that petal 5 needed to be behind petal 2
Layer Palette
Click on 5 and hold down the mouse button while you drag the layer down below 2 Shadow 1

New Raster Layer: 5 shading 1

Shade with color #3

Smudge

New Raster Layer: 5 shading 2

Shade with color #1& #3

Smudge

New Raster Layer: 5 shading 3

Shade with color #4

Smudge

New Raster Layer: 5 shading 4

Shade with color #1, #5 and a little #808080

Smudge

New Raster Layer: 5 shading 5

Reset brush
Shade with color #3, #5 and a little more #808080

Smudge

9.

 Petal 6

Active Layer: 6
Flood with color #2

Effects/ 3D Effects/ Drop Shadow

I used the Freehand Selection Tool Set on Point to Point and selected the part I didn't want

New Raster Layer: 6 shading 1

Shade with color #3 and some #2 on the bottom row

Smudge

New Raster Layer: 6 shading 2

Shade with color #1& #3 on the bottom row

Smudge

New Raster Layer : 6 shading 3

Change size to: 3
Shade with color #4, #2 on the bottom row and a little #808080

Smudge

New Raster Layer: 6 shading 4

Shade with color #1 and a little #808080

Smudge

New Raster Layer: 6 shading 5

Reset brush
Shade with color #5

Change Size to 3
Change Hardness to 25
Change density to 25
Spray on just a touch of #1

Smudge

I decided the center did not show enough
Active Layer: 3

Effects/ 3D Effects/ Drop Shadow
Offsets: 0
Opacity: 65
Blur: 35
Color: #5 on the chart
Shadow on new layer: Checked
OK

 On to Page 3 to shade the stems and leaves