Embellishment #2  - Candy Heart

 

As with the ribbon bows we made last time this is an exercise in making embellishments for your cards, scrapbooks, websites and even tags if you so desire.  Because of the Valentine season coming up we are going to be making candy hearts. 

 

Start with a new raster image 300 X 300, 200 dpi, transparent background.  We are going to be using preset shapes, but first you need to add the heart shape to your shapes folder you will find the shape here.  Open the attached shape in PSP.  Then go to File / Export / Shape   enter a name for your heart and click ok.

 

Select the Shape tool and then Preset Shapes as below

  In your drop down menu you will now find the new heart shape that we just added.  Starting in the upper corner click and drag your cursor from one side to the other lower side to create your heart shape, leaving some room for movement.

Click Control + D to deselect. 

 

  Using the Flood Fill tool choose a color (I used pink) we need a darker value in the foreground and a light value in the background.  With the darker value fill the heart shape like below. You will get a prompt saying that you need to change to a raster layer click ok.

 

  Next we are going to add another heart right over the same heart on a new layer.  This next heart will be the lighter value of the color you chose.  Click on the double arrow in the Materials Palette next to the two color boxes.  This will put our lighter color on top or in the foreground box. 

  Now flood fill your new heart and move it using the move tool  until it is a little bit askew of the bottom heart.  Like this.

 

  Next we need to highlight the left curve by selecting our Pen tool  and choosing an even lighter color than the one we used on the upper heart.  Setting the size

to 6 and tracking to 30, make sure the anti-alias is checked and create on a vector is checked.  Draw a rounded curve on the upper left of the heart following the contours of the heart. And another on the right side of the heart towards the bottom.  Like this

 

  Next we are going to add a sunburst highlight along the line of the highlight in the upper left side, go to

Effects / Illumination Effects / Sunburst and set your settings as below:

  Now click ok and you should have a nice highlight on the upper left side of the heart.  Now we are going to add some text to our heart.  With the text tool use the darker value of your color, create as floating, and type in the words you want to say.  Next go to Effects / 3D Effects / Cutout here you want the shadow color to be black and the fill interior color the same as the dark value, like this.

 

  And there you have your candy heart.  Merge all visible layers, resize as you wish and save as a tube or pspimage  or export as a png. to keep the transparency. 

 

 

 

Have Fun!

 

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