Christmas Bag

You will need a tube or tubes of your choice or you can use mine

Gold fill-mine is in the zip file with the tube here

Open a new transparent canvas 500x 500

In your foreground of the colour palette have black and null the background box

With preset shape tool-line width 5 on rectangle draw a rectangle on the canvas 12 small squares by 12 small squares

Layer -duplicate-arrange one square down and one square to the left of the other square-see screen shot

Add a new layer.

Still using the black colour and paintbrush tool on default setting but change the size to 5- draw lines to join up the corners of your bag. To make a straight line, click once with paintbrush tool at the start of where you want the line and then hold down the shift key and click where you want the line to end

There is no need to do the bottom left hand corner as you will see in a minute.


Go to the first vector layer and convert to raster then with eraser tool carefully erase the lines as I have done in the screenshot-this will give you the bag shape


Add a new layer

With preset shape tool on eclipse-colour black and line width 3, draw an eclipse to fit the top of the front of the bag

Duplicate this layer and arrange to fit the top of the back of the box.

Layers -merge visible-carefully erase the lines that aren't needed as in the screenshot. If you erase a small part of the black that you need paint it with the paint brush

Now comes the fun part.

With magic wand -select all the parts of the bag by holding the shift key as you select. There may be some stray selections where you have erased. Selections modify expand by 1 and flood fill with a colour to match your tube. Select none.

Select the front of the bag with magic wand and click on tube you are going to use-edit copy-click on bag canvas-edit paste into selection. Select none.

Add a new layer.

With selection tool on circle draw a very small circle at the left top front of the bag-flood fill with a dark colour. Repeat this at the top right front and again on the back of the bag at the right. You don't need to do the left of the bag as it isn't showing where the hole would be placed.

Now add a gold fill to the foreground pattern box of the material palette-if you use mine have scale 100 angle 0-or use any pattern you like to make the ties.

Have the paintbrush on size 6 and paint the strings as I have done. Add a bit extra onto the end of the ties to look like a knot

Add any other decoration you like-layers merge visible

Edit copy-edit paste as a new image.

Save as a PSP image to use as a tube for tags etc.

That's the tutorial finished I hope that you enjoyed doing it.

Thank you Vivi for testing the tut and allowing me to use your bag

Written by chrissie 2005