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Finally finished my commision for *karliashi who was pleased with the result, wich of colours epeased me! It was as usual made in Photoshop CS with my Wacom Intuos.

TIPS!
A trick for creating a nice bark texture - do a lot of texturing on the bark, with readymade photoshop textures or ones you download, and do some paintwork yourself. Then duplicate your layer, go to Filters - Stylize (?) and choose Emboss (great trick for rocks, mountaints and dirt texture etc as well!) After that you can play with opacity and layer options to get a really nice gnarly texture for your tree trunk! Don't forget to do silouhette editing on the trunk once you a done!

To create the cherrytree blossoms I made a seemless pattern on cherryflowers in photoshop. I then used the pattern clone to draw the flowers with help of my flower pattern. It is better than creating a texture/brush you use with the brushes as they are transperant and loose colordetails you've made!
See how to make a seemless pattern here.

I can upload the pattern if you are interested? If you need a different size, just open the pattern, rescale it to a size you think will be alright, and save it.

Don't know how to add a new pattern? Go to Edit, and then there should be something named Set pattern or something similar. A window will open that allows you to name the pattern and then you are done!

(Anyone feel free to tell me correct photoshop translations! I have Swedish photoshop so I have to wing it! )