Pixel Pine Tree PSP Tutorial by Carla Polston

Pixel
Pine Tree

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This is part of a series.
The rest are in the Member's area.
Pixel Winter Scene

I wrote this in PSP9, but you should be able to do it in other versions if you are familiar with the program.

Base

Grab hold of the base image and drag over to your PSP workspace to use as a placement guide.
This image will be your working base.
You may want to magnify to around 500% - 600%.

Save As (F12) and Name
I have this in png format. You will want to save as psp format.

MAGIC WAND SETTING

Add
RGB Value
Tolerance 0
Sample merged not checked
Contiguous not checked
Feather 0
Anti-alias not checked

Tree Bark
	Click on the Background Layer on the Layer Palette. Select the tree image using Magic Wand New Layer Flood Fill (F) #8d6a3d Float (Ctrl+F) Effects - 3D - Cutout Vertical: -1 Horizontal: 1 Opacity: 100 Blur: 5 Shadow Color: #404040 Select None (Ctrl+D) To get a variation of trees, you may want to duplicate (Shift+D) this image a couple of times then spray the needles and snow on each image. In my image, I just duplicated the same one. SAVE
Pine Needles
	Image - Canvas Size Width: 60 pixels Height: 80 pixels Placement: Top: 11 Bottom: 0 Left: 12 Rigth: 13 New Raster layer Foreground:#404040 Use Paint brush Round Size 8 - 10 Hardness: 80 Step: 25 Density: 1 Thickness: 100 Rotation: 0 Opacity: 80 Spray sections of needles along branches. SAVE
Snow
	New Raster layer Foreground: #e0e0e0 Background: White Use Paint brush - Change: Size 4 Step: 1 Other settings the same Spray patches of snow alternating between left and right mouse buttons to use both colors. SAVE

Delete the base image and Merge Visible.

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Base
	Grab hold of the base image and drag over to your PSP workspace to use as a placement guide. This image will be your working base. You may want to magnify to around 500% - 600%.