This Tutorial was created on August 31, 2003
and is ŠDreamers Design 2003. You are free to tube the results of using this tutorial but the idea
by which this tutorial was created is mine. Please do not sell or use for monetary gain.
Thanks ŠDreamers Design!

You will need PSP 7 but I am sure you can do this in PSP 8 also
YOu can download your trial version here
You will need my butterfly selections Here(Unzip to your selections folder)
These Gradients Here(Unzip to your gradient folder)
Dee's Brushed Gold preset for SuperBlade ProHere
(Unzip in your Texture and Enviroment Folder)
Flaming Pear's Super Blade Pro get a trial version here

Well now you have everything so now it is time to get create your butterfly.

1. Open a new Image 300 X 300 Black background. Layer->New Raster Layer and name this
Leftwing. Selections->Load From Disk and select the leftwingb.sel.

With your foreground set to White and your background set to Null. Flood Fill your selection with white. Effects->Flaming Pear->Superblade Pro and apply the Brushed Gold preset.
Deselect.
2. Layers->Duplicate your leftwing layer and rename it rightwing. Image->Mirror and you will have this so far:

Wings

3. Layers->New Raster Layer and name it body. Selections->Load from Disk and open the bodyb.sel. Flood Fill with white and apply Effects->Flaming Pear->Superblade Pro. Apply the same Brushed Gold Preset as in Step 1. Deselect.
You now have this:

body

4. Now for the antenna's. Layers->New Raster Layer and name it left antenna.
Selections->Load From Disk and open the leftbantenna.sel. Flood Fill the selected area with white and Effects->Flaming Pear->Superblade Pro apply the Brushed Gold Preset. Deselect.
5. Layers->New Raster Layer and name it right antenna. Selections->Load From Disk and open
the rightbantenna.sel. Flood fill selected area with white and then Effects->Flaming Pear->
Superblade Pro and apply the Brushed Gold preset again. Deselect and you should have your butterfly
Looking like this so far:

Antenna's

6. Now to add color to your Butterfly. On your Layer Pallet highlight your left
wing layer. Add a new layer. Layer->New Raster Layer. Go back and highlight your left wing layer again.
Now take your magic wand tool select the inner wing area like so:

Selections->Modify->Expand by 1. Change your foreground to the gradient and find the Cyan-Magenta gradient
and click on it. Your foreground will now show the Cyan-Magenta gradient.at these settings:
Angle: 182
Repeats: 0 and select the first style. Now highlight on your layer pallet the layer
you made just above your leftwing layer. Flood Fill selected area with gradient. Now Lower the opacity on that layer to 55. YOu can slide the slider on your layer pallet to do this. But make sure you are on the layer you made and not the left wing Layer. Deselect and it will look like this:

7. Now we want to do the outer wing. On your layer pallet again highlight your left wing layer and add a new layer
Highlight your leftwing layer again and use your magic wand tool and select the outside wing area like you did with the inner wing area.
Selections->Modify->Expand by 1 With your outer wing still selected highlight your layer above the leftwing layer Now click on your foreground color which should still be
on your gradient styles. Locate my lavenderwhitedd.gradient at these settings:
Angle: 182
Repeats: 0 and select the first style. Flood fill with my lavenderwhitedd gradient.
Deselect.

Lower the opacity like before to 55. Your butterfly will look like this now.

Now X out the other layers on your layer pallet except for leftwing layer and the two layers above it.
Layers->Merge Visible.
For the right inner wing and outer wing area. Just repeat Steps 6 and Steps 7: Your butterfly will look like this now.

Now your Butterfly is done. Now you can turn off the background layer and then Layers->Merge Visible. Now I added sparkles and this is how your butterfly will look.

You can File->Export->Picture tube and you can use it to decorate your pages or make a back ground like I did. I hope you enjoyed doing this tutorial.

ŠDreamers Design. If you have questions or would like to send me your results you can Email Me