Nan's Jeweled Shield
tutorial by Whisper

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Now that you have the Pinball tutorial completed we will continue.

Image > Canvas Size > these settings:
Width & Height 1000 pixels
Placement top center

In the layer palette right click on the merged layer and rename to top.

Right click again and duplicate then rename to bottom.

Image > Flip.

Activate the top layer and duplicate.

Rename the copy layer to left.

Image > Rotate > Free rotate > 90 left, rotate single layer around canvas center checked, all layers UNchecked.

Right click on the left layer and duplicate.

Rename the copy layer to right.

Image > Mirror.

In the layer palette be sure that the right and left layers are above the top and bottom layers.

Activate the lasso/freehand selection tool and set at:
Point to point
Feather 0
Smoothing 5
Anti-alias checked.

Place your cursor at 0,0 and click once.
Move to 500,500 and click once.
Move to 1000,0 and click once.
Move back to 0,0 and double click.

You should now have a triangular selection at the top of your image.

Making sure your left layer is active hit your delete key.

Activate the right layer and delete.

Place your cursor at 0,1000 and click once.
Move to 500,500 and click once.
Move to 1000,1000 and click once.
Move back to 0,1000 and double click.

You should now have a triangular selection at the bottom of your image.

Activate the left layer and delete.

Activate the right layer and delete.

Selections > Select none.

Right click on any of the layers and Merge > Merge visible.

Duplicate the merged layer.

Image > Rotate > Free rotate > 45 left, rotate single layer around canvas center checked, all layers UNchecked.

Right click on any of the layers and Merge > Merge visible.

Selection your selection tool to:
Circle
Feather 0
Anti-alias checked.

Place your cursor at 500,500 and draw out a selection almost to the edge of the image, about 984 in diameter.

I am showing where I drew my selection in yellow.

Selections > Invert.

Hit your delete key.

Selections > Invert.

Selections > Modify > Contract > 30 > ok.

Selections > invert.

Selections > Promote selection to layer.

Selections > Select none.

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