Country Heart Copyrights to these tutorials belong to KathZilStudio unless else noted. If this tutorial looks like an other tutorial, this is a coincidence. You may not copy or spread in any kind of media this/these tutorial(s) without the written permission of KathZil. We do not allow translations of our tutorials. All artwork is protected with DigiMarc. ©KathZilStudio - 1998 - 2007 You'll need Paint Shop Pro, and the font Scruff Let Plain 1.0. Open an new image, 600 x 600, transparent, 16,7 mill colors. Set your foreground color to : #665A5C, and your background color to : #D9C0C4. Go to your Preset Shapes and choose heart 1: Draw a heart in the middle of your canvas. Put your cursor at 150,300 and pull down to 350,500. Go to your Layer Palette and Convert to Raster Layer. Go to Selections, Select all, Selections, Float. Selections, Modify, Contract 10 px. Flood fill the selection with your gingham background. If you want to make your own, click here. (right click .. copy and right click paste in paint shop pro as new image..) Set your foreground color to pattern and your background color to null Set your pattern options to: Flood fill the selection. Add a drop Shadow, with these settings: #665A5C (H + V 1 Op=65 Blur=5) Select, Select none Go to image, resize, and choose these settings: Move your heart to the bottom of the canvas. Go to Layers, New Raster Layer. Set your foreground color to #665A5C Choose your draw tool . Choose these settings: Draw a line like this: Add a drop shadow to the line, same settings as before. Go to Layers, New Raster Layer. Choose your text tool . I used Scruff Let plain 1.0 For the Gingham fill use the same settings as before then apply a drop shadow with previous settings.. Select, Select none. Go to Layers, New Raster Layer. Choose your draw tool same settings as before. Set your background color to null. Draw the top part of the ribbon and connect them to the line. or download this psp file with the ribbon. You can copy it and past it as a new layer. Apply a drop shadow on the ribbon, same settings as before. Place the circles at the bottom of your text and 'hang' them on the letters. Choose your erase tool and erase the line in front of the letter. Zoom in so you can see what you are doing..;-) Go to your heart layer. Selections, Select all, Selections float. Choose your deformation tool. Now move your heart a little downwards to the right. This is what you should have now. Go to Layers, Merge Visible. Add a drop shadow, H + V 2 Opacity 65, Blur 10. Layers, Merge, Merge all Resize the image to your convenience. Your done! Thank you Desiree for testing the tutorials. Created September 2nd 2002