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Open a 300 x 300 blank canvas. Using the path drawing tool Custom
Shape Heart, with a colour of your own choosing; 3D mode; Border
6 and Depth 30, draw a heart shape to amost fill your canvas. |
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Go to Effects/Two Moon Filter/Roto Blades and use these settings:
Bade Reduction 35; Red Addition 128; Blue Addition 128; Green
Addition 128.
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Your heart should now look like the one on the left here.
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Then using the Path Drawing Tool again with a much lighter colour
of your own choosing; 3D mode; Border 30 and Depth 15, draw another
heart shape, making this one a little smaller and placing in the
center of the original one.
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Go to Object/Convert Object Type/From Path to Image and go over
your center heart a few times using the blur tool; round shape
100; level 5; soft edge 50, to take out the shininess and also
to remove any sharp looking edges, giving it a much softer look.
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stamp tool
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Select the stamp tool. Select the silver_ball.ufo and then with
a scale of 60; spacing of 75; placement as a set and object as grouped,
go to Effect/Paint on Edges. This will produce a lovely row of what
looks like pearls around your inner heart shape. Right click on
your mouse to Select All Objects and then again to Merge as a Single
Object. |
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Unzip and open the flower object you downloaded earlier. Right
click on it and choose to ungroup it, press your spacebar to deselect
and then click on the center of the flower to select just the
roses. Go to Edit/Fill and choose a colour complimentary to your
heart and be sure that the merge field is set on colorize.
Before you click on OK make a note of the Hex, we're going to
need this code a little later.
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Right click on your mouse to Select All Objects and then again
to Merge as a Single Object. Using the Transform Tool resize your
flower to make it smaller and then drag it from it's canvas towards
the top left side of your heart. Select the Text tool with a nice
font of your own choosing; Size 70; Mode 3D; with a Border of 15
and a Depth of 30. |
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Right click on the colour and select Ulead Color Picker and then
type in the Hex code you made a note of earlier, then click on
OK.
Click on the heart image to open the text box and type in a letter,
and then on OK. Position your letter a little lower than central
of the heart. Right click on your mouse to Select all Objects
and then again to Merge as a Single Object.
Add a drop shadow if you like by right clicking on your mouse
and selecting Shadow. Leave the settings as they are and click
on OK.
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I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Your beautiful satin heart
is now finished and should look pretty similar to this one on
the left. I'm sure, left to your imagination, you can find lots
of things to do with it too!
If you're looking for something else to create using the blue
rose or even for a stationery idea for this satin heart, then
you might like to check out Deb's Pearl
Scallop Border tut. Whatever you decide to do next, be sure
to have fun!
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