A Pinwheel in PSP

For this tutorial, you'll need PSP6 or 7, a page curl filter, (I'm using KPT3 Page Curl)
and Blade Pro.

You will also need my pinwheel template and my wood fill. I am also including Graphics Plus page curl filter (.8bf file) for those who don't have KPT3. Unzip to your desktop, then move it to your plugin folder. (You can also try the page curl in PSP7, although there isn't an opacity control, it still would work fine.)

Get my zip here.

This is lots of fun. Ya ready? Ok let's do it!

Begin with a transparent 400 X 400 image with white as your foreground colour. Choose an image or texture to use in your pinwheel.

Unzip the template and copy/paste as new layer into your image.

Using the magic wand, tolerence 0, click in the center of the right triangle to select it. Add a new layer.

Now click on your graphic image. Copy/paste into selection of your new image. Or fill with a colour and texture of your choice.

Leaving the triangle selected, apply KPT pagecurl filter as below: You can adjust the opacity as you like.. *If you're using PSP7 page curl, use these settings: Back color white, Right corner, x and y at 1000, and radius of 40.*

Copy and paste as a new selection, image/ rotate 90 degrees to the left. Place into position over the top triangle, using the mover tool. Line it up carefully so it fits perfectly on top of the template triangle.

Paste as a new selection, and rotate 180 degrees to the right this time, move into position over the left triangle.

Again, paste as a new selection, rotate 90 deg.right this time, move into position over the bottom triangle. It's getting there!

Ok, now you can delete your template layer (layer 2) and on layer 3 which has your new triangle sections, use the magic wand, tolerance at 0, feather 0, and select the white sections, use shift/select to get all four. Now hit delete.

You can also soften the edges of the curl using the retouch/soften, size 3, opacity/density 100. Merge all visible layers. Select all, copy and paste as a new layer into a new image, transparent, 400 X 600. Move your pinwheel up to the top of the image.

Add a new layer. Set foreground and background colours to white. Draw a small circle using the ellipse shapes tool (press shift as you draw to make a circle), in the center of your pinwheel. Select/all and click on the circle with the selection tool. Apply a blade pro preset of your choice. Apply a small drop shadow offsets 1,1, opacity 60, blur 7.1.

Now it's time to make the stick. Go to layer 1, add a new layer. Using the shapes tool, draw a long, thin rounded rectangle antialias on. Select all/click on it using the selection tool, and fill with the wood pattern.

(Open wood.jpg, click on foreground/make pattern active, then choose the wood as your flood fill pattern.)

Apply inner bevel as below:

Select none, turn off layer 1 which will be your background layer, merge all visible. At this point, you can copy/paste as a new image, resize down and make a tube of it if you'd like.

Turn layer 1 back on, and flood fill with a texture or colour of your choice. I used a beige and applied Paint Engine filter.

Add a drop shadow to your pinwheel on your merged layer and it's complete. I used Eye Candy perspective shadow, but PSP drop shadow would be fine too :) You can resize it if you wish. I added a border of 3 and blade pro to mine.

And here is the finished pinwheel...

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Thanks for visiting! Hope you had fun :)

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