15. On this same layer using white again, click on your Draw tool, Antialias and Vector checked, line width 2. Draw a single line above the rectangle and extending past the edges of the egg. When you have it where you want it go to the layer palette and convert to raster layer. Rename Top White Lines. Again don't worry about the overhang.

16. Right click on the Top White lines layer and duplicate. Go to Image>Flip. With your Mover tool move the lines into place at the bottom of the squares.

17. Add a layer and name it blue dots. Set foreground color to blue #4040FF. Click on your Paintbrush tool, go to tool options and use the same settings as before. Shape-Round, Size 10, Hardness 50, Opacity 100, Step 25, Density 100 Click to place a row of dots across the egg in the white rectangle box. Space them evenly as you can. Do this for the bottom box too.

18. Add a new layer and name Yellow dots. Set foreground to the yellow we used before #FFFF40. Click on your Paintbrush tool and change the Size in Tool Options to 7, keep other settings the same. Place a row of dots between the white rectangle and white line. I placed mine to fall between the blue dots. Do this for both top and bottom. This is how your egg should look so far.

19. Add a new layer and name it Yellow line. Click on your Draw tool, in Tool Options choose Straight Line, width of 2. Antialias checked, Vector Not checked. Draw a line straight down between two of the middle squares. About 56 in length. Use the Mover tool to place it if necessary . Turn this layer off.

20. Add a new Raster Layer and name it Yellow scrolls. Keep the same Yellow for stroke and Null for fill. Click on your Preset Shapes. Choose Ellipse, Antialias checked, line width 2. Holding down on the shift key, make a very small circle about 12 x 12. Go to Edit>Copy. Go to Edit>Paste as a New Selection. Place the second circle right beside the first one just barely touching.

21. For this next step Zoom in so you can select a small area of the two circles to delete. Click on your Selection tool. Select a small area of each circle as shown below and press delete.

Turn the yellow line layer back on. With your Mover tool move the scroll into place at the end of the yellow line. If you need to trim the yellow line switch to that layer and trim. Now, back to the yellow scroll layer. Go to Edit>Copy, then Edit>Paste as a New Selection. Place it at the opposite end of the yellow line. While still selected Go to Image>Flip. While still selected move it into place. Deselect.

22. Turn off all layers except the Yellow line layer and the Yellow scroll Layer. Right click on one of the layers and Merge>Merge Visible. Rename Yellow Scroll. Right click on the Yellow Scroll layer and Duplicate. Turn all the layers back on. Using the Mover tool move the new Yellow Scroll into place between the other two squares.

23. In the layer palette, turn off the egg layer and background layer if you have one. We want to merge our egg decorations. Right click on one of the layers and Merge>Merge Visible. Rename it Deco. Turn the egg layer back on. Click on your Magic Wand and click the background of the egg layer. Go to your Layer Palette and click on the Deco layer. Press delete to remove all that overhang. Deselect.

What are you looking for egg-xactly?

24. Now, go back to your egg layer and click on the background again with the Magic Wand tool. Go to Selection>Invert. Now add a new layer and name Shadow. Go to Effects>3D>Cutout. Apply the same cutout as before.Horizontal and Vertical = 0, Opacity = 50, Blur = 75, Shadow black. Deselect. Now go to your Layer Palette, move the Deco layer below the shadow layer. Now Merge>Merge All Visible. If you would like to tube it now is a good time before the drop shadow is applied.

25. I added a Drop Shadow with these settings: Vertical and Horizontal=0, Opacity =75, and Blur= 4.9. You're all done.

 

Here is another egg I created.

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