Wax Seal

this tutorial was created by Sharon Becker

on 14th April 08

It was written for those that have a working

knowlege of PSP

This tut was done in PSP X

this is how i made the item,

found it by playing around in psp,lol.

my ideas, my concepts, any similarities

are purely coincidental,

do not claim as your own.

You will need the following supplies:
PaintShopProX
EyeCandy5-impact

Okay lets start:
1.file- new file400x400
2.now go to preset toolsand click on circle
3.make sure your foregroundcolour is null

and backgroundis to a grey #c0c0c0

(we're doing it grey so u don't have to

keep making individual ones,you make a grey one

and then you just colourize it)
4.draw out your shapeand convert to raster
5.now go to effects-distortion effects -wave

with these settings:

Horizontal & Vertical Amplitude

both set at 2

Horizontal & vertical wave

length both set at 34

click ok
6.now with preset shape - circle

draw out a circle but leaving abit

of room at sides then go to

selections - float - defloat

hit delete on this layer and

then highlight you distorted

layer and hit delete
9.now with this layer

apply effects-eyecandy5-impact-bevel with these settings:
10.on first sections

is called *settings*do not do anything with this one
11.then on *basic* heading, click on this

and apply these settings

Bevel width 74.74bevel height 56

smoothness 41.05round corners 5

inside selection checked

darken deep areas 0

shadow interior - none
12.now on the next heading *lighting*apply these settings

direction 129inclination 73highlight brightness 60

highlight size 75highlight colour #c0c0c0

shadow colour #808080

click ok and you should have something

like this


















13.now draw a circle with preset shape again

this time draw inside the gap of your wax seal

and make it just go over the sides
14.now we go back to eyecandy5 - impact-bevel

and apply these settings:

in the *settings* heading

find the *sharpe edge*on mine its the last in the list
15.*basic* heading, leave as is
16.*lighting*direction 135inclination 45

highlight brightness 69

highlight size 50

highlight colour white

shadow colour #adabab

click ok

it should look like this:

17.in the layers pallet

right click and duplicate that layer

then go to image - resize to 300

so its a 100 less than it was
18.merge all layers visible
there you have it...


















save how you would normally

(i saved mine in png)

and now you can colourize it to taste!

heres mine recoloured


















then all you do is add a ribbon to make it funky,lol.
Hope you enjoyed my tutorial!