Love Picket Fence Tutorial

This tutorial is written for PSPX but can tried on the earlier or later versions.

 

 
Open a canvas 400 x 500, transparent. Foreground/ fill color or pattern of your choice. Preset shape/ rectangle. Draw 2 rectangles on the canvas. Convert to raster layer and apply inner bevel. Settings above. Change the angle to 325.  
 
Preset shape, round rectangle. Draw a round rectangle on the canvas. Add a node on top. Change the node to symmetric. Pull the node slightly up and then pull it slightly to the right to give it a round shape.  
   

 Convert to raster layer. Effect/ 3D effects/ inner bevel. Settings below.

   
Copy and paste it 5x on the canvas. Assemble the it as shown on the screen shot.  
   
Preset shape/ same foreground and fill color. Draw another post on the center, taller than the rest. Add a node on top and edit the node to give it a rounded shape. Convert to raster layer and apply inner bevel. Copy and paste it on the opposite side.  
   
Make a selection to delete the 2 horizontal post on the center.  
   
Preset shape/ round rectangle/ same foreground and fill color. Draw a rectangle for a gate. Convert to raster layer.

Change the foreground and fill color to any color. Preset shape and choose the country heart that goes with this tutorial. Place the heart on the center of the gate. Convert to raster layer.
 
   
Make the heart selected. Click the gate layer and hit Delete. Delete the heart. The gate should have a heart hole. DESELECT .  
   
Preset shape/ Heart 1/ same foreground and fill color. Place a little hearts above the big heart. Convert to raster layer. Copy and paste 4X. Assemble them as shows on the screen shot. Make it selected  
   
Click on the gate and hit DELETE. This should put little heart holes on the gate. DESELECT. Apply inner bevel. Change the Smoothness and Depth to 5. OK  
   
Preset shape/ ellipse/ foreground and fill color to #c0c0c0. Place a small ellipse on the canvas. Convert to raster layer. Apply inner bevel. Copy and paste 2X. Assemble the ellipse as shown on the screen shot.  
   
Merge the layers down and apply drop shadow. Vertical 1/ Horizontal1/ Opacity 100/ Blur 2. OK. Copy and paste 3X, and place them as shown on the screen shot.  
   
Preset shape/ Heart 1/ same foreground and fill. Draw a heart above the gate. Convert to raster layer. Apply inner bevel.

You may colorize this heart if you desire or leave it as it is.

 
   
Merge the layers visible. Add a text and decorations to your fence.  End of Tutorial

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