Hey Guys,
I am making a few custom templates for photographers to use for Christmas cards and I am stuck on this one. I need to make or find some Christmas garland to go on the top of the fireplace. I have searched the net today for a Photoshop brush to use to make it since making it from scratch seems terribly tedious!
Do you Paint Shop Pro people know if there is a brush that makes evergreen in that prog? If so maybe someone could make me a garland to go on top of the mantle with it in a high resolution file?

Also, I need any ideas on making the stockings furry using Photoshop.

Thanks Bunches,
Loverly

I've got a variety of foliage and ivy brushes I downloaded from DeviantArt - I'm afraid I don't have the original links, but I can look through them and see if there are any that look appropriate.

If you have Paint Shop Pro why not download the many many tubes you can get, just google, if you do not have psp,. Then find the tube you like from websites and i shall do my best to help.

http://www.deviantart.com/

http://www.deviantart.com/
I meant I didn't have a link to the specific brushes - unless they have fixed it recently, you can't search for brushes on the site.

Legacy~artT and Caitlin,

Thanks for helping!
I only have Photoshop CS and Corel paint. I have been searching for hours now for an evergreen brush that would work either one of those. I usually am pretty good about finding things but this time I'm stumped!

Loverly

Is this brush any use?

Cailtin,
You have the right idea and if I can't come up with evergreen branches then I may have to use one of those smaller ones!
Loverly

Also, I need any ideas on making the stockings furry using Photoshop.Hi Loverly.

I experimented a little and came up with this.
Select the boots to their own layer (I used select>color range); filter>artistic>film grain: 8,0,10; filter>blur>motion blur: -20 degrees, 5 pixels.

Pierre

Have you tried creating your own brush? I found this neat garland photo through a google search. Open image, go under Edit>define brush preset, and viola you made your own brush! I had to do a light green layer and then a dark green layer to make it look more 3-D.

~Amber~

Dreampix,
I just tried the brush preset thing and it doesn't seem big enough to make enough details to print :cry:

Pan Pan I worked a it on the fur on the stockings too. So far so good! .

Loverly

Hi Loverly !

Such an interesting project, I love Xms motifs ! Was browsing for likely material for evergreen brushes and came up with some promissing photos. How soon do you need the things for the garland or banner, what resolution would you need the images to have for the mantelpiece. (sorry for so many questions :) ) I would love to try doing something, furry boots, evergreen garland etc.

Regards - Martha :wavey:

Thx Martha,
Here is the card so far. I need some garland in 300dpi and it is an 8x10 (2400x3000) and ASAP. The photog is going to put these on display when they are finished to sell them as custom Christmas photo cards for families and kids along with a few others I have made already so now is the time to get them finished!

I don't think I mentioned that the lil family members will be in the stockings and maybe tomorrow I'll put pics of my kids in them for a trial run.

Loverly

OK, Loverly,

Will start some of the brushes thing tonight (it is past midnight here and have to get up at 5 am tomorrow !) and hope that could have something to show by tomorrow Tuesday 4th evening when I get from work.
Hope it will still be on time for you to use, if you like them of course ! :)

Regards - Martha :wavey:

Hi Loverly !

Rather in a hurry but hope you can use them, below a sample of the brushes I created for your garland, they were made with a high resolution image and the preset size is 1057 px and the other one slightly larger, can't quite remember now.
I am PM'ing you the link to dwld the zip with the brushes, I included also one I made from a photo of mink fur though it did not came out too good.

Hope you can use some of them.

Best regards - Martha :wavey:

like martha, it's a bit late and i need to be heading to bed, but thought i'd throw this together real quickly to give you an idea of some of the tubes available to Paint Shop Pro (these have been collected by me since version 7).

no time to try a garland brush right now, but tubes has some new features and it might be possible to make a 'continuous tube' from one of these.

Craig

ok, i was right. the tubes can be set to continuous of varying steps and sizes giving some very nice renditions of garlands :) very easy to do if you have good base images to work with.

Craig

Hey Craig and Marath,
Here is what the template looks like with some photos of my kids and cats.

Thanks for trying so hard Martha!

I think I like the holly garland Craig. Anyway could you just send it in resolution 300 already made up so I don't have to download the whole Paint Shop Pro prog just to get it? 300 res 10x8 Loverly642@aol.com

Hugs,
Loverly

loverly,

ok, i took the image you posted that had the black and white garland. i pumped it up to 3600 x 2400 at 300 dpi (yours was 200 dpi). i then made a new raster layer and used your black and white garland as a guide of where to put mine. but, i'm still missing info here. you want it tight, closely spaced holly, or a larger or smaller size than your black and white and what file type would you like it in? i can save it many different ways, including .tif, .jpg, or .psd, and then zip it up. but, the file size is LARGE, over 10 megs and i dont think my email will allow over 10 megs. IF that's the case, i can post it on my (borrowed) server and you could ftp it. i'd have to let you know the addy, but that's easy enough.

i made one up and it looks fairly nice, but i'd just like to get you what you really want. my examples image has some fairly tight, loose, and medium in varying sizes. so, let me know.

Craig

Sorry again Lisa,

This seems to be a no solution problem, a file at 300dpi in the dimensions you need will not be possible to post here as I thought, since to reduce a 20+MB file to the allowed 100kb would be a waste of time.

I could of course zip it and post it like I did with the brushes, perhaps using another storage site, but then you will have the same problem downloading it. So regretfully I have to give up :(

Maybe Craig could find a solution for you ?

Regards and good luck with your project :wavey:

Hey Craig and Martha,
Sorry I was out tonight and I am just now getting home and tomorrow I'll let you know what size etc.

Hugs,
Loverly