These are my own steps that I used, any resemblance to any other tutorial is strictly coincidental. I am hoping that you already have some understanding of PSP.

You will need to download my Wooden Bridge Alpha Selections and save them to a folder of your choice. You can download the Wooden Bridge selections HERE

You can use any color for your Bridge or a Pattern. I am offering one of my Wood Patterns if you choose to use it. Save it to your My Documents/My PSP files/Patterns

Start with a new canvas 450X250. Change your foreground to the Wood Pattern Angle 0 Scale 25 and background color to #805f3c. Remember to SAVE often!! We will be working with a lot of layers for this tutorial.

Step 1      Add a New Raster layer. Go to Selections/Load-Save Selections/Load Selections from Disk. Locate the folder where you saved the Woodenbridge selections and Load wb-Bottrail-pjk. You will see the Marching Ants, now Flood Fill with the BACKGROUND color. Selections/Modify/Contract by 1. Flood Fill with your wood pattern. Select NONE.

Step 2      Add a New Raster layer. Go to Selections/Load-Save Selections/Load Selections from Disk and Load wb-Lcenter1-pjk.

Step 3      Flood Fill with the brown. Go to Selections/Modify/Contract and set it to 1. Flood Fill with your wood pattern changing the Angle to 90. Select None.

Step 4      Add a New Raster layer. Load wb-Lcenter2-pjk.

Step 5      Flood Fill with the brown. Go to Selections/Modify/Contract and set it to 1. Flood Fill with your wood pattern changing the Angle to 45. Select None.

Step 6      Add a New Raster layer. Load wb-Lrail-pjk. Flood Fill with the brown. Go to Selections/Modify/Contract and set it to 1. Flood Fill with your wood pattern changing the Angle to 135. Select None.

Step 7      Add a New Raster layer. Load wb-Rcenter1-pjk. Flood Fill with the brown. Go to Selections/Modify/Contract and set it to 1. Flood Fill with your wood pattern changing the Angle to 90. Select None.

Step 8      Repeat Step 7 for the following selections.... wb-Rcenter2-pjk (change pattern angle to 135), wb-Rrail-pjk (change pattern angle to 45)and wb-toprail-pjk (change pattern angle to 0)

Step 9      If you have been naming your layers, RED X the Bottom Rail layer and Merge Visible. DUPLICATE this layer, Red X it our for now as we will use it shortly.

Make your Bottom Rail layer visible (UNred X it).

Step 10      Add a New Raster layer. Load wb-planks-pjk. Flood Fill with the brown. Go to Selections/Modify/Contract and set it to 1. Flood Fill with your wood pattern changing the Angle to 90. Select None.

Step 11      Make the COPY of your rails visible. Highlight the layer and right click on it. Arrange/Move to Top. Click on the image and position the top rails down slightly and to the left or right. Making sure that your center posts touch the top of the bottom rail (see close-up below).

Now that your Wooden Bridge is complete, Shift D to make a duplicate copy, crop and Export/Picture Tube. This way you will have a tube of it for future use. Close out this image.

Click on your original image to make it active. Now you can add water, grass and plants to make your Bridge scenery.

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