Making your own quill - feather.
Using Paint Shop Pro 7.
In PSP click on File, New. Settings are 300 x 300,
Background
Black, 16 million colors.
Have the foreground color white. Click on you Flood Fill Icon.
Flood fill your graphic with the settings shown above.
Click on you Selection Toll. Ellipse, Feather 0,
Antialias
unchecked.
Make an Ellipse starting in the center,
and 1/4 of the way down to the center.
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1. Edit, Copy. Edit, Paste, As New Image.
2. Have white as your background color.
Image, Add Border.
If you get a warning about single layer click Yes.
Symmetric checked, settings 10.
Click on your Draw Tool
Make a single line through the middle, and a little longer at the bottom.
Hint: When making your line press Shift on your keyboard.
Click on Image, Rotate, Right, 33*, all layers. OK.
Click on Colors, Colorize.
Have the Saturation at 255 for the darkest color.
Slide the Hue from 0 to 255 and find a color that is pleasing to you.
Congratulations, you now have your very own custom quill.
The below Updated 16 Sept 2001
I got a note from Nancy & Tom.
Open you new quill graphic
in PSP.
Click on the magic wand.
Click on the Tool Options Icon.
Have a very low number, such as 1 in the Tolerance box.
Feather 0.
Click on the white area in your first graphic.
Click on your Invert Selection Icon.
Now Click on File, Save As. Type in a name in the Fine Name Box.
Save As Type = PSP Image.
Now you can always open your new file and it will have the
Marching Ants around it. Never work from the original. Press
Shift+D to make a copy. Close the original.
To mirror the feather in the other direction press Crtl+M
Are we having fun yet?
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Dan Harlan
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