Spoon Handle Cross Tutorial

You may want to use BladePro as a fill.  Super BladePro is available for purchase or a trial download here.
There are hundreds of places to find presets:
4352 Blade Pro presets at GreenWay Towers in the Blading Basket
108 Super BladePro presets at Pixelating.com
*BladePro presets can be used in Super BladePro but Super BladePro presets can not be used with BaldePro.
First find a spoon handle you like the shape of, scan from a catalog, make it, search for silverware - however you prefer.

  Clean the handle of any background using the 'cleaning' tutorial
 

Step 1
After cleaning the handle, if necessary, flip or rotate the handle so that the design is at the bottom, then copy to clipboard.

Step 2
Open a new image and give yourself room to work - depending on the size of the spoon handle, I uses 600x600.

Step 3
Paste to the new layer and move it half way down.

Step 4
Add a new layer .

Step 5
In the layer palette, move the new layer below layer 1 by clicking on it and dragging it down.

Step 6
Paste the image to the new layer.

Step 7
While still selected, flip the image.

Step 8
Drag the image until it is lined up with the image in front, lining up the edges.

Step 9
change to the touch-up tool which I call the smudge tool and in the tool options box make sure the tool is set to 'smudge' and about size 7 to 13.

Step 10
When it's lined up and overlapped at the ends,  merge visible.

Step 11
With the smudge brush, make a short downward stroke on each side of the spoon them to smooth the pattern.

Step 12
With the rectangle selection tool, anti alias unchecked, make a selection just past the end of the decorative part and hold down the CTRL key while hitting the 'C' key to copy the selection to the clipboard.

Step 13
Add a new layer.

Step 14
In the layer palette, drag the new layer below the merged layer and hold down the CTRL key while hitting the 'V' key to paste the image.

Step 15
Using the Image/Rotate menu, rotate the image 90 degrees to the right.

Step 16
Slide the pasted image under the other image until the beginning of the decorative beading meets (if there's no decorative beading on you handle, position it where you like it the best but well above the halfway mark of the other image.

Step 17
If the image sticks out past the right side, make a selection down the middle of the top image and past the end of the new image then hit the 'delete' key.  Then, select the other part of the image and use CTRL while hitting the 'C' key to copy image.

Step 18
Add a new layer.

Step 19
It will already be in the right order, above the last image and below the merged image.

Step 20
Use CTRL key while hitting the 'V' to paste a new image.

Step 21
Use the Image/mirror menu to reverse the image.

Step 22
Slide the handle in to complete the uniformity of the pattern and line it up horizontally.

Step 23
Merge visible.

Step 24
Use the selection menu to select all.

Step 25
Click on the cross once to set the selection.

 

Step 26
At this point you can flood fill the cross with and decorate however you want or you can use Blade Pro any presets you prefer to color the cross and use tubes or images, gems or pearls to set in the center to complete the decoration.

These are examples of Blade Pro presets;  the first two are without flood filling with white and the last one is over white.  To get the perfect preset as viewed somewhere, you will probably want to flood fill the pattern with white before Blading.
      

Step 27
Flood fill with white and save in psp format for a template to blade over and over with different presets.
    

Close Window when Finished.

Tutorial by CSGreen.

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* I do not generally compress my graphics but for the sake of loading time - the tutorial graphics are compressed!