How do I make these little purple flowers?

[Suzy]

Hi, Carole,

I bought the custom confetti script because of these little purple flowers in the preview. (Thinking that of course I can make them, it’s just a symmetrical shape with a 3D bevel) but I’ll be darned if I can figure it out.  Can you help, please? It’s for the next Build-a-kit.???

https://creationcassel.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_9&products_id=144&zenid=qn0kktf941dlie5bun6ieer010

Sorry I can’t put in the image. I think my screen shot is too big and the “insert photo from URL” isn’t working.

 

thanks,

suzy

 

 

 

 

[Cassel]

The script will use any element and turn them into confetti. So you can probably use a preset shape (I think there is one with 5 petals), make it in the color you want (you can even add a little yellow dot in the center if you want, and then, run the script. That will give you a confetti picture tube. Then, using the new tube, you can scatter them however you want (in a line, around the edges of a page, in a spiral, etc.) and save that as a png and it will be a scattered element for your kit.

[Suzy]

The script looks great, works great. I want to know how to make one of those little purple flowers because I am not having any luck. I figured you made them when you did the script and could tell us how it’s done. (Am I assuming too much?) They are 3D and shiny. And have a little dark purple or black between the petals. All-in-all they are cute as the dickens!

[Cassel]

@Suzy Here is a tutorial for it: https://www.loom.com/share/b5054578e9b34fb188a1567760001ca2

You will see that it is super simple and you can create flowers with more petals or with different shapes too.

[Suzy]

Oh, boy, that really *is* simple, isn’t it? LOL!  Thank you so much for posting it! I was missing that one step and got all kinds of very nice shapes, just not the one I wanted!

[Marie-Claire]

I was curious and also looked at your explanation. Thank you, I love those videos.

[Suzy]

Carole,

Thanks again for the video!  I am trying to commit it to memory, but senior mompmemts aside, I have to do it about 1000 times before I can say I know how to do it. 

Question: well, lots of questions. About what I can do with my little flower after it’s made and absolutely perfect. 

once I make this flower, and merge the center with the tepals, but do NOT convert to raster, is it still a vector and can be a psp shape? Can I export it as a .pspshape file and have access to it again? And if I do that will the script read a .pspshape, or does the script need a regular raster?  And likewise, can I save my little flower as a psp brush? By exporting it as a brush? And if I needed that center to show in the brush file, would I make the center with a white line around it (I forget the word - not the fill, but the other word for an outline in the materials palette).  Would that work?  
 

[Cassel]

1 minute ago, Suzy said:

once I make this flower, and merge the center with the tepals, but do NOT convert to raster, is it still a vector and can be a psp shape? Can I export it as a .pspshape file and have access to it again? And if I do that will the script read a .pspshape, or does the script need a regular raster?  And likewise, can I save my little flower as a psp brush? By exporting it as a brush? And if I needed that center to show in the brush file, would I make the center with a white line around it (I forget the word - not the fill, but the other word for an outline in the materials palette).  Would that work?

You can keep it and export it as a preset shape, for future use.

For the script, from memory, I think it will rasterize it because picture tubes can't be vectors.

And yes, you can save that flower as a brush. Remember that a brush will be a single color, so it will ignore the fact that you might have added a yellow center to a purple flower. If you keep the center white, it will be a hole in the imprint and yes, you can always fill it manually after, but depending on how many flowers you have, it could be tedious!

 

[Suzy]

Okay, that answers that question….I didn’t know if the brush treated white as another color or a void.

thanks for answering. I know I could do this myself and test to see how it works, but when I do that it messes up my files and I never seem to get the bad ones deleted without a lot of problems, e.g., accidentally deleting the one I wanted to keep!

Just now, Cassel said:

You can keep it and export it as a preset shape, for future use.

For the script, from memory, I think it will rasterize it because picture tubes can't be vectors.

And yes, you can save that flower as a brush. Remember that a brush will be a single color, so it will ignore the fact that you might have added a yellow center to a purple flower. If you keep the center white, it will be a hole in the imprint and yes, you can always fill it manually after, but depending on how many flowers you have, it could be tedious!

 

raster?  And likewise, can I save my little flower as a psp brush? By exporting it as a brush? And if I needed that center to show in the brush file, would I make the center with a white line around it (I forget the word - not the fill, but the other word for a line in the materials palette).  Would that work?  

[Suzy]

Here is my little brush.  One is the image (square) and one is a big version of one from the scatter -- where I scattered it with F11 and put an inner bevel and drop shadow on it.  (So this is not a tube, just the first brush)

What I want to show, tho, is that my brush had a different color center with a tiny 2 px white ring around it.  When I go to use it as a brush, it is using the color I have as the fill as the flower center color, and the white ring is letting the background show thru. (but as soon as I put the bevel on it, it disappeared) and the flower tepals are just the color as-is in my materials palette. I never knew that brushes could come through as two colors!!!!!?????

[Cassel]

The center which seems like a different color is just a different "saturation" of the same color. What do you get if if you use the brush at a much larger scale? What colors does it show?

[Suzy]

Oh, I'm so disappointed! You are 100% correct. Booo!

[Cassel]

But it looks interesting nevertheless!

[Suzy]

Ok. Here is the finished version...a brush, not a Tube, which I wasn't expecting.

 

[Suzy]

On 4/9/2023 at 11:35 PM, Suzy said:

Ok. Here is the finished version...a brush, not a Tube, which I wasn't expecting.

I LOVE these!! ??Hahaha, they’re mine, but I still love them!