This tutorial can be done with any version of Paint Shop Pro

. 1 º Open a new image, transparent 12/12 px. In the Materials palette, choose two colors that we like and contrast, I use the # CC3300 and # FFDBD0. Go to View / Zoom:

And zoom in until you can work comfortably. If your mouse has rudecita, giving this forward, the image will increase and decrease back

As you can see, I increase dramatically

2 ° With the Brush tool, set well;

The other two options unchecked.

Draw approximately squares with each color, so that they are as follows:

It is also interesting to activate the rules, if you have not active, just go to View / Rulers

and as we see in the screenshot below, and we are guided by them: With the magic wand set up this way:

click on the inside of one box, and fill the same color.

3 ° No clear it, let the tool: Lighten / Darken: The configure like this:

and holding the left mouse button, we repeated the selection to see to be clear:

4 th repeat the same steps for the other little picture. And we are thus:

Duplicate the layer with the pictures. Go to Image / Flip, Image / Mirror and we have to look like:

Minimize or leave it aside for later use as a standard.

5 th Open an image 432/168 px. And fill it with color # FFEBE4

* Note: This pattern just made, and the tutorial is designed for these specific measures.

If you want to make a tag, bigger or smaller, you will have to take into account that the measures we use have to be multiples of 6. Add a new layer. In the Materials palette, seek the pattern you just made and fill the new image you just created.

Go to Selections / Select All. Selections / Modify / Contract:

6 px

Remove / Delete

7 th We added a new layer. Selections / Select All. Selections / Modify / Contract: 30 px. Fill with Pattern Selections / Modify / Contract:

6 px. Remove / Delete Deselect we can see the result will be as follows:

8 ° In the Layers palette, merge the last two layers, leaving the bottom hidden. As always, I will rename and so I do not miss We now have a background layer and another with the merger of the squares:

Effects / 3D/Sombra:

and again apply shadow with portrait and landscape values ​​in the negative (-1)

9 th Duplicate the layer of the squares. Go to Image / Mirror To verify that we have done well, we will fix in the first square of the frames: One layer will have a color in the first little picture, and the other must have the other:

and the other

Duplicate the background layer and place them so that we have a base coat, a plaid, a copy of background and a checkered:

hide copies and merged the two visible. Hide the merger we have just done, turn the other two layers and merge them. Our work once led the Animation, will look like this:

But before taking it to Animation, decorate it?

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