Realistic Clay Flower Pot

Tutorial written by Arizona Kate, © 2000
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With this tutorial we'll be making a clay flower pot that has the front and back on separate layers so you can 'plant' some flowers inside! We'll also create a custom gradient. There is also a companion tutorial which converts this 'new' pot into an old, cracked & weathered pot...see tut index.

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

This tutorial was written for Paint Shop Pro version 7. Version 6 also has vector tools, so users of PSP6 should be able to follow along. If you've never used the vector tools, this should be an easy introduction!

For users of older versions of PSP without the vector tools.....you could try drawing the pot using preset shapes or the line/draw tool.

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'. Today we'll use RC and the pop up dialog boxes. 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.

Permission is herein granted for individuals to save or print this tutorial for personal use only...please do not distribute by email or otherwise. Too many free tutorials have been taken offline because of copyright abuse! We don't want to see them all disappear, do we?

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