Everything you need is on the canvas.  Make sure you have your Layer Palette visible.  You will Load from the Alpha Channel (not Selections).

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I left a background layer.  You may want to flood fill to help you see better.  You can delete this layer before merging.

This tutorial was written in PSP9 beta for learning purposes. It is for the more advanced PSP users. You will be making a gradient and creating a Bump Map use with Balls and Bubbles. You can do in other versions, but some tools are named differently and you will not be able to use Balls and Bubbles in PSP7 and under. You can experiment with Cut Out or use Inner Bevel in place of the Balls and Bubbles and use the graphic created above as the fill (colorize).
Make sure your Layer Palette is visible (F8)

First we will create the gradient to use.
Foreground Fill - White
Background Fill - #404040
On the Materials Palette, click on the Foreground Gradient Tab
Select Edit on the Material Properties pop-up.
The next pop-up will be the Gradient Editor.
Select the New button
A New Gradient pop-up will appear. Type the name you want to use. I called mine stripes.

• On the Gradient Editor pop-up, look in the boxed area that says Gradient.
• You will notice the Fore: will have the White Foreground color and the Back: will have the #404040.
• Click on the crayon looking icon to the left and click on the Fore: box showing the white.
• Click on the crayon looking icon to the left and click on the Fore: box showing the #404040.
• Now click toward the center to add a new crayon looking icon. The placement should be at 50%. You can see this in the Location box.
• Click a touch to the left of the center crayon icon to create another one.
• Click on the Fore: box to make this one white.
• Slide over to the Location of 50%.

Open a New Image I used 200 X 200
Flood fill with the gradient just created using the following settings:

• Angle: 45
• Repets: 10
• Style: Linear

• Top and Left 30
• Bottom and Right 170

Open Candy canvas ©2004 Carla Polston
Duplicate this image (Shift D) and save the original.
Save As and name in PSP format.

CANDY
Click on candy-cp layer on Layer Palette
Selections – Load from Alpha Channel – candy-cp
Flood Fill your choice (#ff4040) PSP7 and below - You could Flood Fill with pattern and play with Cut Outs or Inner Bevels.

Effects - Artist Effects - Balls and bubbles

• Shape Tab
  • Single Ball or bubble
  • Maximum possible size
• Surface Tab
  • Material - Experiment with colors!(#400000)
  • Opacity: 80
  • Shininess: 80
  • Gloss: 0
• Maps Tab
  • Bump map - Click on drop down and select the swirl graphic created earlier.
  • Smoothness: 90
  • Depth: 40
  • Size: 45
• Illumination Tab
  • See below
  
  Use the same as your background color (right click on the color)
  There are no coordinates for the light position. Mine is a little above the center.

WRAPPER

Click on wrapper1-cp layer on Layer Palette
Selections – Load from Alpha Channel – wrapper1-cp Effects - 3D - Cutout

• Vertical: -5
• Horizontal: -1
• Opacity: 100
• Blur: 10
• Shadow Color: Black
• Check - Fill inter with color: White

• Vertical: 5
• Horizontal: -10
• Opacity: 100
• Blur: 7
• Shadow Color: #c0c0c0
• Check - Fill inter with color: White

• Vertical: 5
• Horizontal: 10
• Opacity: 100
• Blur: 7
• Shadow Color: #c0c0c0
• Check - Fill inter with color: White

Click on the candy layer on the Layer Pallet and - Colorize (Shift+L) to get some other colors. You may want to Adjust Brightness/Contrast.
You can also go back and fill different colors and play with the colors in Ball and buDbbles.

Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.

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