Easy Folk Art Tree

Tutorial written by Arizona Kate, © 2000
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This tutorial was written as a companion to the Easy Leaf Tube tutorial, which is a guide for making your own custom Picture Tube in Paint Shop Pro. We will use the simple leaf created in that tutorial to create some trees. If you prefer, you could use a different leaf tube. This is a quick & easy, beginner level tutorial. The only supplies needed are PSP and a leaf tube. When you're done with this tut, you might like to try the other companion tut, Easy Topiary.

Before we start, let's review the following program notes:

This tutorial can be followed using any version of Paint Shop Pro that includes the Picture Tube tool, however, it was written for Paint Shop Pro version 7. Users of older versions should be able to follow along, however some menus choices or tool names may be different.

In this tutorial I will ask you to right click (RC) to select most of the menu choices or will call out the standard menu choices. You can do many of these same actions using keyboard shortcuts or buttons on the Tool Options Palette. In fact, quite often there will be at least 3 different ways you can do the same action in Paint Shop Pro. For example, clicking the Node Edit button has the same effect as right clicking to select 'Node Edit'. Most of the time I'll use RC and the pop up dialog boxes to describe tool options in a tutorial. After a while, you may decide you prefer one of the other methods and you'll settle in to your own way of doing things.

In accordance with the new terminology used in PSP 7, the foreground and background color swatch boxes will be referred to as Stroke for the outline/foreground color and Fill for the background color.

No textures will be used in this tutorial, so you can set both texture Styles boxes to Null Ø.

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