Are you always looking for a rope or string in the size and shape you want but can't find anything ready-made that matches your project? That is when you can REALLY take advantage of these rope tubes for Paintshop Pro.
These are picture tubes, and you can "draw" with them as you would with a brush tool. Make them long, make them short. Make them straight, make them curved, make them twisted. Create "rope doodles" if you want, draw freehand or shape them neatly with a free script (link in the description).
You get 12 different natural rope tubes that you can use to make frames, tie tags, write words, etc.
Grab this set of rope tubes in the store now: Natural Ropes.
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To show you how versatile these rope tubes can be, i created a doodle frame. First, i drew it with the Pen tool so i could get a vector path. That required some work and tweaking to get the smooth curves. Then, i just ran the VectorTube script to place the rope along the vector path. That was the easy part.
The biggest challenge was to add the shadow ON the rope where the pieces overlap. Since everything was on a single layer, i had to use a few steps:
- added a shadow on a separate layer
- selected the area where the shadow should be on top of a rope.
- promoted that selection and moved it above the rope
- deleted that duplicated section from the initial shadow layer
- with the eraser tool, i removed the shadow that appeared on top of the top rope but should NOT be there
- then, i had to feather the remaining shadow so it would look natural
It was not hard, but it was a bit time consuming. But what do you think of the result? This free download includes a shadowed version and an unshadowed one (in case you need to add your own).
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Will you show me your end result with a photo in the frame? You can also post it on the pinboard HERE. Everyone would LOVE to see your project.
