Appletube

An easy to make apple needing no drawing skills at all!

You will need :-

PSP9

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Go to 'File' 'New' and open a 'New Raster Image' Size 400 x 400 pixels, 'Transparent'.

In the 'Materials' palette, set the' Foreground and Stroke Properties' box to 'Transparent'....

...and in the 'Background and Fill Properties' box

select the 'Gradient' icon from the drop down menu. ......

...and click on the gradient which appears in the box......

...to open the 'Materials Properties' box. Click on the gradient which appears in the 'Current Gradient' box to open the menu. From the menu click on 'Duotone Red' to select it, and set your settings to these.

Style 'Radial',angle 0, Repeats 1, Invert ticked
Centre Point Horizontal 51 and Vertical 6...... and 'Ok'

Click on the 'Ellipse Tool

and set the 'Mode' to 'Draw Circle'

[Ignore the width setting as we set the stroke properties [outline] to transparent in the 'Materials' box so it isn't being used here]

Draw your mouse over your image to draw a circle.

Use the 'Move Tool' to drag your image to the centre if need be.

Click on the 'Mesh Warp' tool

and set both the 'Mesh Horizontal' and 'Mesh Vertical' to 9 and other settings as those below.

A mesh will appear over your image and you will notice little nodes in the corners of each square. You can click/hold and drag these anyway you like.

Drag the nodes nearest the point at the top of the circle downwards slightly to give the impression of the indent at the top of the apple.
Push the sides in near the bottom and the bottom up a little so it looses its uniform circle shape and begins to look more like an apple.

Click on the 'Move Tool' to remove the 'Mesh Warp'

Go to 'Layers' and 'New Raster Layer'.
If you get any 'Auto Action' prompts you can 'OK' them.
In the 'Materials' palette, click on the red gradient showing in the 'Background and Fill Properties' box to open the 'Materials properties' box...click on the gradient showing in the box to open the menu again.
Select 'Duotone Green' and set the settings to these

Style 'Linear', Angle 270, Repeats 1, and this time 'un tick' the 'Invert' box.

Using the 'Ellipse Tool' again, set the 'Mode' to 'Draw Ellipse'.....

...and draw the tool into a shape for the leaf, it doesnt matter where you draw it as we will be moving it later.

Select the 'Mesh Warp' tool again and drag the nodes in/out to fashion a leaf shape.

Click on the 'Deform Tool'

We are using this to turn the image. Hold your mouse over the farthest away node until your cursor changes to 2 chasing arrows , then you can click/hold and drag the node to turn the image.

Run your mouse over the image until your cursor changes to then you can drag your image into position.

To remove the deformation tool, click on the 'Move Tool'

Go to 'Layers' and open a ' New Raster Layer'.
In the 'Materials' palette, 'Foreground and Stroke Properties' box, click on the 'Transparent' icon to remove the tansparency....

...and click on the colour which appears in the box to open the 'Material Properties'. Select a brown colour for the applestalk.

Using the 'Paintbrush Tool set to Shape 'Round', Size 10, Hardness 80, draw a stalk.

Use the 'Move Tool' and drag the stalk into position and also to drag the leaf.

In the 'Layer' palette,click and hold your mouse on 'Raster3' [which has the stalk on] and drag it to below 'Raster2' [Leaf] to place the stalk behind the leaf....click on 'Raster2' to highlight...

....... then go to 'Layers' and open a 'New Raster Layer'

In the 'Materials' palette, click on the colour showing in the 'Foreground and Stroke Properties' box to open the 'Material Properties' box again, and select a light orange/peach colour which we will use as a highlight on the apple.
Click on the 'Paintbrush Tool'

and set the settings to these..

Shape 'Round', Size 28, Hardness 1,

Draw two strokes next to each other for the highlight.

Go to 'Layers' 'Merge' 'Merge Visible' which puts all the layers onto the one layer.

To Save the Image as a Tube.

Using the 'Crop Tool' draw close round your image......

and click on the tick to complete the crop.

Go to 'File' 'Export' 'Picture Tube'. Type a name for your tube in the box and 'Ok'.
Now, when you click on the 'Picture Tube Tool' your apple will appear in the menu ready for you to use and you can vary the size of your apple by altering the 'Scale'

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

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Revised 2007