Painting Trees is the first of our step by step tutorials for Jungle DVD and Paint Shop Pro. It provides an illustrated walkthrough of the tools and techniques necessary to paint tree textures for application in 3D.

This birch tree is actually a 512 pixel texture mapped with transparency and rendered in a 3D scene. It took about 10 minutes to paint. The precision mask necessary for transparency mapping is created while painting the tree.

The step by step tutorial is available as a PDF file. The Tubes & Stuff contain everything you'll need including a leaf, branch and shadow tube, a tree trunk layer and a shadow brush. The tutorial takes about 20 minutes to complete.

To learn how the shadow was done, get the Painting Tree Shadows tutorial too.