Tutorial made with Paint Shop Pro 9.0.1, you can make any other version

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See tip 1, created on how to create brushes with selections Here

2 º Once created our brush, as indicated in the tip, open a transparent image 400/400px. In the Materials palette select two colors:

And fill it with color # c4c5fc. So we can distinguish perfectly the brush.

3 No new raster layer and activate the Brush tool: and load our brush:

We will put these values ​​in the palette settings:

Located on the image centering, we apply the Brush:

And minizamos for later use.

4 ° We will open a transparent image of 600/200 px. Fill with color # C4C5FB. Go to Effects / Texture Effects 3D/Efectos:

and these values:

5 th New layer with Select the Rectangle tool selected, look for this icon: click on it and in the window that opens put the following values:

So we stay:

6 In the picture where we apply the Brush, Copy and Paste in the selection where you just created:

remove the selection.

7 ° In the Layers palette, duplicate the latter:

Go to Image / Mirror:

We stay like this:

Add a new layer and sign work.

Background

To create a fund and to use the forum, just as with the Rectangle tool, setting the custom selection with the following settings, conceal the two layers of brushes located on the bottom we create a box 150/150 px as shown in following screen:

Copy, Paste as new image and save in jpg format, adjusting the value of understanding between 10/20%

Firm

For the signature, just cut out a picture detail and proceeded the same way. Just change the format to save it. It was a gif, transparent merging with the background color:

You change the color you will have to merge the semi opaque pixels, the color that you may be using. Thus, no difference was noticed between the edges of the signature image and background.

If you use a background with different colors to try it ... which is better, although it is recommended ... better a smooth But not to be noticed!

I hope that you enjoy this tutorial and surprised us with your creativity, because the brushes can unleash and create beautiful work