PhotoImpact v.X3
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Tools: Cloud Pen

Description: learn how to paint grass patch object with the cloud pen.

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First let's open a new canvas 600x400 pixels. We could always resize it down later on when we are done with our finish grass object.

Open your easy palette and under the Image Enhancement/ brush/ Cloud pen, choose the Cyclone, double click on it to make it active.

Now, we need to set our brush.

The color I did use is: #698D41

Once your setting for your brush is done, you may as well add it to your easy palette.

Click on the mode paint as object.

Now we are ready to start.

Make an oval shape design like an egg laying on the side, make small stroke, in different directions to achieve your oval.

This is what it may look like. Now we are going to continue to had paint the same way same kind of stroke until we fill the inside of it.

This is what the inside could look like, make sure you cover all the inside with the paint so that you don't see any white underneat. Once that you are done click out of mode.

You now have a Grass Patch Object. You could reside down and if you do apply a focus on your object, it will get rid of the blur when it is resize down. Hide the base image and save as a ufo or a png format to keep the transparencies.

Here is what I did with my Grass Patch object.

If you have any question or need some help don't hesitated to contact me. I'd like very much to hear some feedback if it was at all helpful to you and would love to see your result, I invite you to post it in the painting forum at The PhotoImpact International Board.

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