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Monica's Cookies PSP6-7

Since this is another food lesson, you may want to be sure to eat before trying this one. You'll eliminate that hungry feeling many of you mention. :) This is another experiment I tried that became a lesson when several people asked where the lesson was. I'm giving two different methods to create my cookies. The first version uses selections from a brush with a BladePro preset. The second version uses an icing tube for a different look. I'm fairly sure this lesson can be done in both PSP6 and 7. Version 6 users will have different names and places for several tools.

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Supplies

Click here to get my files. Does include a pattern for non BladePro users.

Download my special preset package offered with Martin's permission here. Martin's presets should be placed in the BladePro or Super BladePro Textures and Environments folder after unzipping them.

Please drop in and visit Martin's Planet Preset & BladePro Cafe for the rest of his amazing food presets. Thank you for creating these Martin.

I'm providing a tube, a brush, a cookie pattern fill, and 2 bonus icing fills. I have included the .psp file as well for the icing tube in case it is not compatible with PSP6. You will also need to view the saveatube.jpg file for the proper save settings during tube export.

If you'd rather make your own icing tubes, I wrote a lesson on doing it yourself.

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Brush Cookies

  1. Open open file my MWcookiefill.jpg file if you do not have BladePro or Super BladePro. Minimize the image.
  2. Open a new new image 300 x 300 16.7 million color transparent image. (You'll want to tube these later.)
  3. Choose my custom brush brush tool MW clipflake1.jbr in the custom brush options.

    Brush options

  4. Create the following new layers named Cookie, Icing, Details.
  5. Set your foreground color to white and apply the brush once on the Details layer. You can also choose a complimentary color at this point. Your choice. Click on the selection tool selection tool. Now select your image. To do this go to Selections -> Select All and then click anywhere on your cookie. It should now be selected.

    Step 5 completed

  6. This is an optional step: on your Icing layer, expand your selection by 6. Flood fill flood fill tool with white or another color. Keep selected.

    Step 6 completed

  7. On your Cookie layer, expand your selection by 10. Flood fill with white and apply BladePro granbar preset (most presets need white to work) or fill with my cookie pattern.

    cookie without extra icing layer  cookie with optional step

  8. Cookie pattern users will need to apply an inner bevel to their cookie layer.

    cookie Bevel settings

  9. I also applied another inner bevel to my Icing and Details layers.

    Icing Bevel settings

  10. Resize--Remember to sharpen your image-- and Layers->Merge Visible. You are ready to tube them.
  11. Other ideas: Diana Todd and Marie Stevens have some wonderful animal and holiday mask images which would work for this purpose. The turkey and easter egg in the title image are both from Marie Stevens. The flower is a JASC preset shape, but you must remove the shadow before expanding your selection. I'm sure you can find Santas, angels, reindeer, trees, candy, pilgrims, shamrocks, bats, and even flags. You can use your preset shapes, ding fonts or whatever else you can think of.
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Icing Tube Cookies

  1. 1. Open a new 300 x 300 16.7 million color transparent image. (You'll want to tube these later.)
  2. Add a new layer, Cookie.
  3. Choose my tube tool MW icingatom.tub in your tube options. (This tube makes icing when you hold down the left mouse button while moving the mouse around.)

    Tube settings

  4. Hold down your left mouse button while moving your mouse in a clockwise or counterclockwise spiral that ends in the center.

    You would normally see the spiral path you move the tube tool in to create the finished tube cookie  completed cookie

  5. You can tint your Cookie layer or just lighten it away from that dingy gray look. You won't need to add a bevel, since the icing tube already had one.
  6. Resize--Remember to sharpen your image-- and Layers->Merge Visible. You are ready to tube them.

    Tinted cookies

    Hey! Who ate the bottom left and top right corner cookies?!!!!
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Samples

My inspiration for this lesson

Background is from Jane Braz's site and snowflake is in a brush set from NIK. Star and heart are preset shapes from JASC. Plate is from Dizz's tutorial.

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