Using Digistamps and Brushes ...Part Two..Airbrushing digistamps as a background in PSP

In this part we will be using a Digistamp in PSP  and Use the Airbrush tool to colour it in and  make a pretty background paper..

.so open your PSP  this will work in all versions... Im using psp9 here  however some of the newer ones will have the tools in a different place..

           What you'll need:  Background paper:   Digistamp:  Colour Palette

Download the supplies I've used 

To read about digistamps and how to install PS and AI brushes got to the files pages above or click here 

Open PSP and either find in your stash or make yourself a 3600 x 3600 300dpi  white background paper and add some colour by either using blot brushes or using the air brush...I've picked the we used in the last tutorial so they match.

Its a little dark so we will lighten it..  its a flattened image so we need to promote the background to a layer

Add a new Layer  Fill it with white and drag this layer below the background

Now lower the opacity on the backround layer till you have something quite soft and pretty i went down to 42%

Merge Flatten 

Add a new layer

Choose your digistamp and paste it into this layer

Rename this Layer BASE

New Layer  

**Note:   Be sure to remember that every time we use a different colour we will need a new layer

Select the airbrush tool;

And use  these settings  Shape: round   Size: 85   Hardness: 0 Steps: 5 Density: 40 Thickness: 51 Rotation: 0  Opacity : 5  Blend: Normal Rate: 1 

well be working on the top new layer

choosing the colour you have chosen  paint inside the inside of the petals...don't worry about going over the lines we will clean up later and if there's gaps all the better it shouldn't be too neat 

New Layer

 

Change your brush size to 22  your brush opacity to 15 and your foreground colour to the one you have chosen for the flower centres and buds and fill those in  again it wont hurt if its messy

New Layer

Change your brush size to 35  keep your brush opacity to 15 and your foreground colour to the one you have chosen for the leaves and fill those in  

 

looks a bit shabby just now but dont worry

New Layer

Keeping your brush size to 35  and your brush opacity to 15 change your foreground colour to a darker shade that you have chosen for the leaves and fill half the leaves with that,,do all the leaves on the same side to look like the sun is on them

  

Lower the layer opacity to about 68

New Layer

Change your brush size to 84  and keeping your brush opacity to 15 change your foreground colour to a darker shade that you have chosen for the petals and fill half like you did with the  leaves staying more to edge thought on the same side again to look like the sun is on them

Lower the layer opacity to about 68

these are the layers you should have now

Now hide the Base and merged background layers by clicking the eyes next to the layer

select one of the other layers right click and select Merge Visible

rename this layer Colour and drag it down below the Base layer

keep this layer selected  and unhide the other layers

Select your Eraser tool

And use  these settings  Shape: round   Size: 32   Hardness: 100 Steps: 25 Density: 100 Thickness: 48 Rotation: 0  Opacity : 26  

Now with the eraser you can tidy up the outside of the lines...you can make it as neat as you like but i think a few bits showing look quite good and shows its been done by hand

Once your happy you can go ahead and merge all the layers

but try experimenting with the blend modes on the top layer

  Luminance

 Overlay

Hard light

Heres my Finished paper

Keep experimenting and see what you can come up with