Open a blank canvas 500 x 00 and Flood Fill white.

Copy and paste your Corn image as a new layer.
Select freehand selection tool

Roughly draw around the edge on one half of the
picture and hit delete on your keyboard a few times
until the straight edge disappears.

Repeat this on the other half of the picture.
Selections, Select None.
Image, Mirror.

Copy and paste your autumn text tube as
a new layer.
On your layer palette, right click and duplicate twice.
Move the 3 text layers around on your canvas until
you are happy with their placing.

Select your Rectangle Tool and set as following:
Foreground Colour: Brown #473424
Background Colour: Cream #FAFAD6
Line Width: 1
Line Style: Solid
Draw a rectangle approx 280 x 70
(you can see the size on the very bottom right corner
of psp in brackets)
Place it roughtly here:


Select your Freehand tool again using the same
feather of 40, and draw along the corn line to
remove the overlapping edge.

Efects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow
Vertical : -3
Horizontal: 3
Opacity: 50
Blur: 4
Colour: #404040

Add the brush tube and place so that the bottom
edge sits on the bottom of the rectangle.

New Raster layer.
Select the inbuilt picture tube and find your Autumn Leaves**
Add a leaf.
New raster layer, add another leaf
New Raster layer, add another leaf
New Raster layer, find ine Cones tube
Add a cone
New raster layer, add another cone.
I find it is best to do each on a separate layer
that way you can now easily move them around
and move the layers up or down to your liking.

Add your text
Size 30
Colour: #473424
Add Drop Shadow same settings.

Layers Merge All Flatten
Resize to your taste.

** to install the brushes to psp (Autumn Leaves and Pine Cones)
extract to:
C Drive, Program File, Jasc Software Inc, Paint Shop Pro 9, Picture tubes.


©SassySarah
17-10-04