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Christmas Ornament
This tutorial was written using PSP7, but can probably be done in earlier versions with a few adjustments.
** Remember to save your work often! **
1. Open a tube and one of the ornament tops that you want to use. Minimize these for now.
2. Open a transparent image 400 x 400. Add a new Raster Layer (all layers will be Raster layers). With your Selection Tool  set to Circle, antialias checked, draw a circle from coordinates 200,200 to 350,350  .
3. Flood fill  the selection with White.
4. Go to Effects - Noise - Add - 50% Uniform.
5. Go to Effects - Blur - Gaussian Blur and set the radius to 7.
6. Selections - Modify - Contract by 10. Invert and hit Delete on your keyboard. Go to Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow and use these settings:
Color Black
Opacity 40
Blur 55
Horizontal and Vertical 0.
7. Keep selected. This is what you should have so far:
8. Add a new layer. With your foreground set to White, set up your paintbrush  with these settings:
9. Draw 3 lines as shown:
10. Add a Gaussian Blur of 15. Selections - Select None. Layers - Merge - Merge Visible. At this point you can export as a tube (File - Export - Picture Tube) or save in psp format for later use.
11. Select a tube you want to use for decoration and go to Edit - Copy. Activate your ornament image and Edit - Paste as New Layer. Move the slider on this layer in your Layer Palette and lower the opacity to give it a softer look. If you want to color the ornament, go back to Layer 1 and go to Colors - Colorize and move the sliders until you are satisfied with the color. Layers - Merge - Merge Visible and Resize to 75%.
12. Select one of the hangers and go to Edit - Copy. Activate your ornament image and Edit - Paste as New Layer and move to the top of the ornament. Add the following Drop Shadow:
Color Black
Opacity 40
Blur 5
Vertical and Horizontal 0.
13. Merge Visible and you're done.
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