A Trike Tutorial for Paint Shop Pro, I am using Version 9. I am reasonably sure it can be done in other versions as well

By Jane's Haven

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We are using Selections which you can get Here

I am providing a wood pattern, get it Here.

My inner bevel presets Here. Unzip the presets to your Paint Shop Pro Presets Folder.

Unzip them to a folder of your choice or in your PSP Selections folder.

Save Often!!!
1. Open a new transparent image, size;437WX309H.Open the wood pattern and minimize.
2. Add a new layer, name it; right back wheel, load the 1-rightbackwheel selection and flood fill with black. Go to effects/3D effects/inner bevel. When it opens go to the top where it says, presets, down the list to find my, Jasc-Round.preset, and click ok. Deselect. 

 
3. Add a new layer and name it; right back wheel2, load the 2-rightbackwheel2 Selection. In your material palette, click the pattern icon, see below, open the material palette properties window, find my wood pattern in the pattern window, flood fill with the wood pattern With the angle 0, scale; 100, or a pattern of your choice. Open your inner bevel to find the, JH-WoodWheel preset, click ok. Deselect.

         

4. Add a new layer, name it, left front wheel, load the, 3-leftfrontwheel selection, flood fill with black, use the same inner bevel as we did in step 2, which is the Jasc-Round.preset. Deselect.
5. Add a new layer, name it, left front wheel 2, load the 4-leftfront wheel2 selection, flood fill with the wood pattern. Giving it the same inner bevel as in step 3, the JH-WoodWheel.preset, and click ok. Deselect

 
6. Add a new layer, name it, left handle, load the 5-lefthandle sel, flood fill with the wood pattern, angle; 0, scale; 100. Invert and add a drop shadow with these settings.

Vertical; 0, Horizontal; 0

Opacity; 69

Blur; 7.92

Color; Black

Deselect.
7. Add a new layer, name it,  bottom front, load the 6-bottomfront sel, flood fill with color of your choice, I used a red, #c00000. Add the JH-TrikePlasic inner bevel preset. Deselect.
8. Add a new layer, name it, bottom front 2, load the 7-bottomfront2 selection, flood fill with the same color red or your choice. Use the same inner bevel, JH-TrikePlasic. Deselect.
9. Add a new layer, name it cross brace, load from disk, 8-crossbrace. Flood fill with, I used a yellow; #ffff40 or color of your choice. Add the same inner bevel, JH-TrikePlasic. Deselect.
10. Add a new layer, name it side cross brace, load the 9-sidecrossbrace selection. Flood fill with the same yellow, #ffff40 or the color you choose and add the same inner bevel, JH-TrikePlasic. Deselect.
11. Add a new layer, name it, top side, load the 10-topside sel from disk, flood fill with the red #c00000 or your color and add the same inner bevel, JH-TrikePlasic.Deselect.
12. Add a new layer, name it top front, load the 11-topfront selections from disk, flood fill with the red; #c00000 or your color, add the  inner bevel, JH-TrikePlasic. . Deselect.
13. Add a new layer, name it right handle, load the 12-righthandle sel from disk, flood fill with the wood pattern, angle; 10, scale; 100.Invert selection and add the same drop shadow as in step 6. Deselect.
14. Add a new layer, name it, left front wheel, load the 13a-leftfront wheel sel, flood fill with black. Add the  inner bevel, Jasc-Round. Deselect.
15. Add a new layer, name it left front wheel 2, load from disk, 13-leftfrontwheel2 sel. Flood fill with the wood pattern but first change the angle to; 0 again. Add the inner bevel, JH-WoodWheel. Deselect.
16. Add a new layer, name it, left front wheel bolt, load from disk the 14-leftfrontwheelbolt selection. Flood fill with black, add the, Jasc-Round inner bevel. Deselect.
17. Add a new layer, name it, left front wheel bolt 2, load from disk the 15-leftfrontwheelbolt2 sel. Flood fill with the wood pattern, angle; 0, scale; 100. Add the Jasc-Round inner bevel. Deselect.
18. Add a new layer, name it back, load the 16-back selection, flood fill with the red #c00000 or your color, add the JH-TrikePlasic inner bevel . Deselect.
19. Add a new layer and name it, back 2. load from disk the 17a-back2 selection. Flood fill with the red and add the JH-TrikePlasic inner bevel. . Deselect.
20.Add a new layer, name it, back 3, load the 17-back3 selection, flood fill with the red, add the same inner bevel JH-TrikePlasic. Deselect.
21. Add a new layer, name it seat 1. load from disk the 18a-seat1 sel, flood fill with, I used a bright blue; #0000ff, add the same inner bevel, JH-TrikePlasic. Deselect.
22. Add a new layer, name it, seat 2, load from disk the 18-seat2 selection, flood fill with the same blue, add the same inner bevel, JH-TrikePlasic Deselect.
223 Add a new layer, name it, seat back, load the 19-seatback sel, flood fill with, I used the same yellow we have already used, #ffff00 and add an inner bevel JH-SeatBack preset. Deselect.

 
24. Add a new layer, name it, right back wheel 1, load from disk the 20-rightbackwheel1. flood fill with black and add the Jasc-Round inner bevel. Deselect.
25. Add a new layer, name it, right back wheel 2, load the 21-rightbackwheel2 sel. Flood fil with the wood pattern. Add the JH-WoodWheel inner bevel. Deselect.
26. Add a new layer, name it, right back wheel bolt 1, load the 22-rightbackwheelbolt1,  flood fill with black and the Jasc-Round . Deselect.
27. Add a new layer, name it, right back wheel bolt 2, load from disk the, 23- rightbackwheelbolt2, flood fill with the wood pattern and use the same inner bevel as in the last step, the Jasc-Round. Deselct.
28. Add a new layer, name it, seat bolts, load from disk, 24-seatbolts sel, flood fill with white, add the same inner bevel as the last step. Deselect.
29. Add a new layer, name it, seat shading, load the 25-seatshading selection, flood fill with white. Deselect. Go to adjust, blur, average, set to; 3.
30. Add a bit of shading, hi-light layer, side cross brace, go to adjust, brightness/contrast, set the brightness to; minus 48 and contrast; 0.

In the layer palette hi-light layer, top side, use the brightness and contrast again, with the same settings.

 Hi-light the seat 1 layer and give it the same brightness and contrast settings.

Hi-light the bottom front 2 layer, use the same settings for the brightness and contrast.

Hi-light the back layer, use the brightness and contrast with the same settings.

If you want to save it as a tube, fight click in the layer palette on one of the layers, merge visible. If you used a colored background layer, delete it first, before you merge. You can also save as a psd file  and use it in many graphics programs..

Your trike is ready to play with you.

Many Many thanks to my Friend Cellar. She used her own colors, I like it.