Re-written by A.R.Jeffery 23.11.09

This tutorial was written using PSP ver 8.10. I have tested it in Corels Psp X.andX2
Some knowledge of Paintshoppro is assumed, but you are always welcome to email me if you have a problem.

You can download a trial version on Paintshop Pro12 Here

Flaming Pears SuperBladepro-Trial version Here.

My Pearl preset Here

Unzip this into your Bladepro enviroments and textures folder.

When I first began looking at PaintShop pro sites, I was always fascinated by the Pearl tubes and collected quite a few. One occasion whilst playing with SuperBladepro I discovered this preset. The following is a mini tutorial on how to use it.

Open a new image 200x200pixels, 16million colors, transparent.
Set your foreground color to #D0AD90 and your background color to null.



Using the selection tool, draw an ellipse and floodfill with your foreground color. Do not deselect.

Click on Effects-Plugins-Flaming Pear-SuperBladePro. Click on the button with the right pointing arrow and browse to find and open pearl1.q5q. Apply by clicking OK.

This is what you should have now. Keep selected.



Adjust Hue and Saturation-Colourise. Hue-41 Saturation-41. This will give a natural looking Pearl.

You can colourise in any shade you would like.

 

Deselect, Adjust-Sharpeness-Sharpen. Either export as a tube or save.

Your pearl is now ready to use, the beauty of this method is that you can have any shape you wish.

I hope you have found this tutorial usefull. The gold used on this page is Dee's Gold Glass from her wonderful collection of BladePro Presets. Unfortunately I can no longer find the link. I did however have permission to use it and so hope it is in order for me to offer a download from Here

If there is anything you do not understand, please email me.

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