Bevy's Frosted Look For a Vase Tutorial

Frosted Look
For a Vase
By Bevy Hart

Materials suggested:

Flower stamp (for Method One - or any stamp of your choosing)
Simple Filter (for Method One)
Picture (for Method Two - or use one of your own pictures)

This tutorial is an "add-on" to Debbie's "Create an Ornate Vase" tutorial. You can use this technique though on just about any object. There are two different methods that I have come up with. Each one gives a slightly different look to your vase.

Stamp Tool	METHOD ONE 1. Open a new canvas - 150x150 pixels - background colour black. 2. Click on the stamp tool and then on the little triangle by the side of the dear image. Click on Import Picture Tube and browse to where you stored your downloaded and unzipped flower stamp. Click on it to import it and we're ready to go! 3. With the stamp tool still selected and the following settings: (except for size) Transparency=0, Scale=100, Order=Random, Object=Separate Objects. Make 6 stamps (more or less depending on your choosen stamp) in different sizes. Rotate, flip and move them around so they cover the canvas. Leave very little of the black showing but try not to overlap the images by very much. Resize them as necessary. Your image should look something like the image on the left.
	4. Click on Image Type at the bottom (right hand side) of the screen. Click on "Black and White" (1 bit). When the screen pops up, use the settings as shown on the left and click "OK". Click again on the Image Type and then on RGB True Color (24 bit).
	5. Using the Standard Selection tool, shape Square, check the box for "Fixed Size" and type in parameters of 100. 6. Click anywhere in your image and set the square where you want it (I try to get as much of the white as I can). Click on Effects/Simple/Quick Tile and then OK. Save your tile.
	7. To use your tile open or make your vase according to the instructions in Debbie's tutorial and use your own tile in place of the one she uses in her tutorial. The merge I use is "Inverse of Multiply". The settings for Edit/Fill are as shown on the left.
	8. Your finished image should look something like the image on the left. This completes method 1. Experiment with different types of stamps to get an effect that you like.
	METHOD TWO 1. Open up the image that is provided for you in this tutorial or one of your own. Follow Step #3 in Method One and use the same settings. Your image should look like the one on the left. You can either use the whole image or select a part of it (as shown on the left), but if you do, make sure that your selection is at least as tall and wide as the object you intend to put it on.
	2. With the image still active, click on Copy. Then select the vase or object you are going to put it on and press Control/F to open up the fill window. Use the same settings as in Method One (Step 6). Your image should look similiar to the one on the left. Try different pictures (a picture using the sinedot filter, especially with a lot of white in it, works really great. Use your imagination and above all, have fun!
	Here are a couple of other examples that I've done using the above methods. I used the Sinedot filter to create the frosted image on the green one. I hope you enjoyed doing this tutorial as much as I enjoyed putting it together. If you have any questions or would like to show me your results please feel free to email me.