Sine Dots II Angel

you are not seeing the nifty sine dots 2 angel in gold.

Since I've been playing with the SineDots II filter, I started doodling and created several presets. I was distracted by other projects and set the presets aside. I started playing with Prestigious Dames' Ronni's Tree. I decided to try making a topper angel. Found my old preset and created another one as well. This lesson does require the free SineDots II plugin, any other filters are optional. The angel face and wings are not possible without Quist, of Quiescent Graphics, who happily gave her permission for me to offer you those supplies.

You should already be familiar with resizing and merging layers.

Since PSP6 does NOT have a styled line option, PSP6 users are welcome to create their own wings however they choose.

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Sources

Download supplies here. I am providing the angel face, styled line for wings, and gown and sleeve SineDots II presets. You need to have SineDots II filter already installed and place my preset file in the same directory (If you need the filter itself, please check my Filters Link page under "Filters"). Styled line needs to be placed in the Styled Lines folder in the PSP7 directory.

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  1. Open a new 200x350 transparent, 16.7 million color image.
  2. Open SineDots II, and click the Open button. Choose MW Angel tut settings.cfg from the window. Choose the sleeve-MW from the pulldown menu.
  3. Click OK and move sleeve to right side of image. Duplicate layer. Then Image->mirror.
  4. Merge visible and Image->Flip and save your creation for later.
    you are not seeing the completed sleeve
  5. Open a new 300x300 transparent 16.7 million color image.
  6. Add a new layer named Gown.
  7. Open SineDots 2 filter and load my gown preset.
  8. Duplicate your layer. Image->Mirror the copy layer.
    you are not seeing the gown front finished
  9. Merge Visible the two gown layers and rename Gown Front.
  10. Duplicate the gown front and rename Gown Back. This way you'll have a front and back gown to surround your tree top.
  11. Move Gown Back layer down one layer. Have you saved lately?
  12. Now, we need to make room for the head, wings and halo. Image->Canvas Size.
    (But WHY? --We just added 150 pixels to the top and 50 pixels on each side.)
    Jasc PSP7 resize tool icon   you are not seeing the image after resizing
  13. Click on Gown Front layer and Add new layer, Head.
    With your preset shape tool Jasc PSP7 shapes tool, ellipse and line width 3, draw a circle from 200,110 to 280,200.
    (I used Foreground: #FEDADA and Background: #FEECEC.) You will need to position the head over the gown with the mover tool.
    you are not seeing the head added to the image
  14. Add a new layer Face.
  15. Open the angelface file and copy and paste as new selection. You will need to resize this.(I used 70%.)
    you are not seeing the face added to the image
  16. Add new layer, Hair.
  17. Using your paintbrush, draw in some hair. If you wish you can apply filters to it for a different look or add several layers. (I used #987757 and #AF9141 for my hair.)
    you are not seeing the hair I added to the image
  18. Add new layer, Wing.
  19. Choose your freehand line tool Jasc® PSP7 draw icon set to width 9, foreground style white and background null.
    you are not seeing the draw tool settings
  20. Draw a line from 165,190 to 69,143. Or whatever looks good to you. Add more lines if you wish to fill out her wing.
    you are not seeing one wing drawn
  21. Duplicate your wing layer and Image->mirror. Merge your wing layers. Move them below your gown layers.
    you are not seeing the wing layers merged and placed below the gown layers
  22. Last new Layer, Halo.
  23. Click on preset shapes tool you are not seeing the Jasc shapes tool icon and choose RING. Antialias and retain style should be checked. Draw your halo out.
  24. Open the sleeve image you saved earlier. Copy the image and paste it onto your angel image as a new layer. (I had to hide my wings to see what I had done. I also resized the sleeves by 70%.)
    you are not seeing the image after the sleeves are pasted on
  25. Now, you can apply a BladePro preset to the gown, sleeves, wings, etc. Or you can do Effects->Texture->Sculpture and choose the gold, silver, or copper presets. Remember BladePro presets work best on WHITE, but the PSP Sculpture effect works on any color.
    you are not seeing the image after applying Blade Pro or the sculture effect to the gown
  26. Save your image as you wish for tubing, etc.
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Samples

you are not seeing Monica's Sample Angel

Many thanks to Val of Val's Dream for teaching me how to do SineDots II Angel wings. As I was typing in the settings for her wings preset, I stumbled on the perfect sleeve preset for my angel.

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