As i have promised, i will write an tutorial for the leaf design i have presented in an earlier post.
This is my first ever tutorial, so please excuse me if not all the comets are great.
I hope you will find this tutorial useful.

- Start by creating a new document, i have used an 800 x 600 pixels, background color white
- Grab the Pen Tool (P), and start creating the superior part of the leaf like this:
- Grab now “Path Selection Tool”, and choose the option “Make selection”. With the half leaf selected, create a new layer (CTR + Shift + N). Now fill the selection with white. You should have something like this:

- Again select the Pen Tool (P), and start creating the inferior part of the leaf like this:

- Grab now “Path Selection Tool”, and choose the option “Make selection”. With the half leaf selected, create a new layer (CTR + Shift + N). Now fill the selection with white. You should have something like this:

- For each of the half leaf layers aply an green gradient. For example you can use this one:

- I have the following result:

- Leaf is almost completed, a little more details: with the Pen Tool (P), create the following shape.

- Grab again the “Path Selection Tool”, and choose the option “Make selection”, create a new layer (CTR + Shift + N). Now fill the selection with white. Aply again an green gradient, and i got something like this:

- I have used an different gradient and i got some other leaf






Great tutorial admin.
Really helps.
Thanks
Thanks for the tutorial. The hardest thing for me has always been laying out the initial curves. I can never seem to get them just right so everything I try to draw looks like Picaso did it.
Picasso,… it is good.
I think you just need some exercise in order to succeed to get more curved shapes.