This was written for that cotton candy lover many of us know and by request
from a group of prestigious people. I am so honored to be asked to write
this. As a precaution, work through this lesson on a full stomach, please. This
lesson does not use outside filters. You can always choose to do so. If you have
preset shapes in your version of PSP, you should be able to do this lesson. While
you will see the "vector" word in one spot, NO node editing. You just hide a
vector layer and then convert to raster.

The font I used is called Tropicana and can be found on Listemageren's site.

PSP7 tool icons are from MaMaT's icon tubes.

Please note: Anything you create from this tutorial is for your personal use only.
All files, screenshots, and text instructions I provide are mine
under copyright law, excluding other authors' work where noted.

Supplies

Download my Lesson Supplies here.
PSP6 users will need this file, since you are missing the cone preset shape.

You will start following the lesson at Step 5 because v6 also doesn't support
all the vector options that v7 has.

As a special gift, you'll find your 'Prestigious Park participation picture'
(shown below) included in the supplies file. Please feel free to use the image on
your own pages after completing this lesson.

1. Open a new transparent 350 x 350, 16.7 million color image.

2. Click on Preset Shapes tool and choose Cone. Make sure Retain Style and
Create as Vector are checked. Don't panic-it will be gone soon.
Now, start down near 160,320 and hold mouse down while dragging up and over to
around 223,129. This makes that cone point down.

3. Click on Vector layer and open it. Click on Cone layer and open it to
find the Cone layer inside. You want to hide that layer. You just made the
red vanish.

4. Convert Layer2 to Raster layer and rename Cone. Now, that was painless!

5. Add new layer, Cotton.

6. Choose the Jasc Clouds tube in your tube options window. Scale 80.

7. Now, add clouds to hide the top of the cone, until you like the look.
Each of my batches looks different and "eaten on" can be the perfect look....
For a fuller look, duplicate the Cotton layer and merge both Cotton
layers together. Then rename as Cotton.

8. Now, we color the candy. Go up to Colors->Colorize. I've seen blue or pink
around here, but you can try other colors.

my blue: hue=143, saturation=174

my pink: hue=244, saturation=174