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This tutorial was written by Jemima ~ September 2003..
Copyright © 2003/4 ~ Jemima ~ All rights reserved

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These are dead easy to make and can be
used for all sorts of purposes.
Christmas and Easter decorations, web page backgrounds,
calling cards... your only limit is YOUR imagination **

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You will need the following

Goldglitter & Goldfold patterns
Right click and save to your computer





mqc Dune
Red-Dark Green
Gradients

Extract to your PSP Gradients folder

SnowFlakeShapes.zip


Extract to your PSP Shapes folder

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Open up you Goldglitter and Goldfold patterns in your PSP workspace.

On you COLOUR PALETTE
Click on the arrow in your top STYLES box and select the 'pattern' icon.
Load the GOLDFOLD pattern






On you COLOUR PALETTE
Click on the arrow in your lower STYLES box and select the 'pattern' icon.
Load the Goldglitter pattern

Your COLOUR PALETTE should look like this.
Note... I have RED and WHITE in the Foreground and Background
boxes at the top of the palette




Hopefully you have extracted the SnowFlakeShapes
into your PSP Shapes folder.

Select your PRESET tool



In your TOOL Options
Select 'Single line'
Antialias = Checked
Size = 3

Locate the SnowFlakes Shapes
and select 'Flake 8'





Open up a new image 400 x 400
Transparent background.

Go to LAYERS <<< New Raster Layer
Click OK


Place your cursor at position 50 (across), 50 (down)
and drag it to 350 (across), 350 (down)
as shown below
(This doesn't have to be exact... I just like being precise *S*)






Go to EFFECTS >>> Sharpen >>> Sharpen

Go to EFFECTS >>> 3D Effects >>> Drop Shadow
Use these settings



This should be your result *S*
Simple... wasn't it!




Each time you resize don't forget to 'Sharpen'

Save the image as a .psp file.




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