Paint Shop Pro Tutorial how to make button orbs PSP tutorial showing how to make graphic buttons for use in webpage images and graphic design.

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PSP TUTORIAL. Making Orbs.

Step 1

Open a new image image in Paint Shop Pro.
File/Open
Settings 150x150 pixels
Any background color
16 million colors

Step 2
Click on the "Flood Fill" tool and then select a "Radial Gradient" fill and apply to your image.

Color Pallette>Styles>Textures>Radial Gradient>
Cyan-Magenta

Step 3

Apply the Twirl Filter
(Effects>Geometric Effects>Twirl) 
Degrees = 453.





Step 4

Apply the Ripple Filter

(Effects>Geometric Effects>Ripple)
Settings:
Amplitude = 9
Wavelength = 43
Horizontal Center = 49
Vertical Center = 50

Step 5

Apply the Warp Filter

(Effects>Geometric Effects>Warp)

Settings:
Horizontal Offset = 0
Vertical Offset = 0
Size = 50
Strength = 100

Step 6

Add a new Raster Layer

Layers/New Raster Layer

Step 7

Click on "Selection Tool" Click on "Toggle Tool Options Window" and select

Circle
Feather = 0
Antialias: Checked

Draw a circle on your image as in image to right.

Step 8

Open up an image or picture from your harddrive and apply a "Flood Fill" pattern to your "Orb image", using the picture as the pattern.

Step 9

Change layer's blend mode properties to Color.
(Layer>Properties>Color). 

Your image should now look like an Orb. See right.

Step 10

Flatten  layers (Layers>Merge>Merge All). 

Press [CTRL+C] to capture the current selection then press [CTRL+V] to paste the captured selection onto a new image.

Save your Orb image. You are finished.

Different background colors will give different effects to Orbs, so play around and use all types of gradient fills and different pictures as backgrounds. Here is another Orb made from a different pic.

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