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PAGE3 22) Repeat steps 12 - 21 for all areas of your pattern. Always select and colour on the background layer before promoting the selection to a layer, and vary the gradient fills slightly. Both pears do not have to be precisely the same colour. The order of layers between background and lead is not important, but background must always be at the bottom and lead at the top. 23) If you wish to use the same colour blend on several areas, apply the colour to each area separately. If you select them all and then fill each one, the gradient fill will operate over the whole selection, so instead of getting two shades on each leaf, for instance, you would get dark coloured leaves on the left and light on the right. When you have filled them all, they can be selected together with the magic wand by holding down the shift key, and promoted to a layer all together. The magic wand tolerance must be set to a figure that will select all the shades in your graded fill, without selecting the surrounding black lines. I used 30 for the leaves. Magnify the pattern before selecting coloured areas, so that you are sure that nothing is left out of the selection. Use shift/click with the magic wand to bring in any small areas that have been missed. 24) Save the final pattern as a .psp file with all its layers, in case you want to make changes. Make a second copy, merge all layers, and save the picture as a transparent gif, with the transparency set as the white of the unfilled parts of the background.
If you wish to colour in the background and apply Blade Pro to that as well, the finished picture will need no transparent areas and may be saved as a .jpg. Quilted silk pictures display better as .jpg than .gif because the reduction to 256 colours in a .gif removes some of the subtle reflections. Below is another quilted silk picture. Another version of this picture is on my graphics page 5, where I was using stained glass techniques, and stumbled on the quilted silk method while doing the skirt of the dress, so much of the rest of that copy of the picture uses textured glass.
© Carol Brooksbank 2003
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