Leafy Villa – Page 2 of 3

This page of the tutorial goes into adding the leafy vines.

5 – Adding a path for a vine

Go to the Paths window (Window > Paths, if you can't see it), and click to create a new Path. You can go back here to find your paths if they disappear.

Use the Freeform Pen Tool to add points, to make a path, as shown. You can select the points or move them, by holding Ctrl while you click or drag them.

To help connect the parts of your image, make the vine slightly overlap the header text.

6 – Stroking the path

Create a new layer. This button is at the bottom of the Layers window.

Choose the Brush Tool. In the Brushes window (Window > Brushes, if you can't see it), change the settings for the brush.

Set your foreground colour to the same dark green as was used for the green menu area (162B02).

With any Pen tool selected, right-click on your path, and click Stroke Path. Choose 'Brush" in the window that pops up. This should give you a tapering green vine, as shown.

7 – Adding leaves

Create a new layer.

Choose the Brush Tool, and change its settings again.

Set your foreground colour to a darkish green (I used 305314.)

Look in the Paths window to retrieve your path, if it's gone away.

With any Pen tool selected, right-click on your path, and click Stroke Path. You should get a nice assortment of leaves, as shown.

In the Layers window, drag your vine layer above your leaves layer.

8 – More leaves and vines

Repeat the previous steps another three times, to create more leafy vines, all originating from the top left. Remember not to make the vine curve too much (like round a corner), because you can't make the leaves turn with it.

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