Draw an Art Nouveau Dahlia Tattoo Flash Sheet

Choose File → New, pick Pixels, and make a 1200 × 1600 document.

Click the top ruler at x 600, x 80 and x 1120 to drop three vertical guides (a click on a ruler makes a guide, no dragging needed). Click the left ruler at y 575 for a horizontal guide. That's the centre line of the sheet and the centre of the dahlia medallion.

Download Dahlia pinnata - 001x.jpg from Wikimedia Commons first. Then open the Reference drawer from the right-hand toolbar and load it. Look at how the petals are pointed and how the leaves meet the stem. Close the drawer when you're done; the image stays loaded for later.

Click the Background row, set the foreground colour to paper #EEE3C9 in the Color panel, and choose Edit → Fill. With nothing selected, Fill covers the whole layer.

Click Layer 1 and rename it Paper Texture (double-click the name). Run Filter → Clouds... with Scale 40. Open the layer's effects drawer (the ✦ button on the row), set the blend mode to Soft Light, close the drawer, and drop the row's opacity to 14%. You get a faint, uneven mottle, like old card stock.

A frame rule is just a filled rectangle with its middle cut out.

1. With Paper Texture selected, click Add Layer and name the new layer Frame.
2. Take the Rectangular Marquee (M) and click once on the canvas without dragging. A dialog asks for exact corners: enter From 34, 34 and To 1166, 1566.
3. Set the foreground to ink #2A1D1A and choose Edit → Fill.
4. Choose Select → Shrink…, enter 5 and apply. The marquee moves 5 px inwards, as in the screenshot.
5. Press Delete. You're left with a 5 px frame line.

The click-once dialog only opens when nothing is selected, so press Cmd+D first, then do the same twice more:

• From 42, 42 to 1158, 1558 in gold #D49B36, Shrink 3, Delete: a gold rule just inside the heavy one.
• From 56, 56 to 1144, 1544 in ink, Shrink 2, Delete: a thin third rule.

Press Cmd+D, pick the Brush (B) and switch on both Symmetry Horizontal and Symmetry Vertical in the options bar. Each stroke is now repeated in all four corners, mirrored around the centre of the page.

In the Brushes panel (click the brush tip in the options bar) set Hardness 100, Opacity 100 and Spacing 4%. Then, still on the Frame layer:

• At Size 3 in ink, drag a quarter circle centred on the inner rule's corner (57, 57): from (91, 57) through about (81, 81) to (57, 91).
• At Size 14, click once at (74, 74) for a dot inside the arc.
• At Size 7, click at (104, 66) and (66, 104).
• Switch to gold #D49B36 at Size 6 and click (74, 74) again to put a gold eye in the big dot.

Turn both symmetry buttons off again before you move on.

Click the Frame row first. New text goes above the selected layer, and the Text options would restyle a selected text layer.

Pick the Text tool (T), set the font to Federo, Size 104, colour ink, and in the Text panel set Letter spacing 2. Click in an empty part of the page, type Dahlia Reliquary, and press Tab to commit it. Rename the layer Title.

Click the Frame row again, then set Marcellus SC, Size 24, colour crimson #8A2A40 and Letter spacing 8. Click in another empty part of the page and type TATTOO FLASH · PLATE VII with two spaces either side of the dot (on a Mac, type the middle dot with Alt+Shift+9). Commit with Tab and rename the layer Subtitle.

Switch to the Move tool (V), drag each line roughly into place, and finish with the arrow keys (Shift moves 10 px) to centre both lines on the x 600 guide. Put the subtitle's capitals at about y 72–88 and the title's capitals from about y 120, which leaves roughly 30 px between them.

Click Frame, add a layer called Rule, and pick the Pencil (N) at Size 3 in ink.

Click at (336, 246), then hold Shift and click at (570, 246). The Pencil joins the two clicks with a perfectly straight line. Do the same from (630, 246) to (864, 246).

For the end dots, click once with the Elliptical Marquee and enter From 321, 241 To 331, 251, then Edit → Fill. Press Cmd+D and repeat at From 869, 241 To 879, 251.

For the diamond, press Cmd+D and make a small square: Rectangular Marquee click, From 589, 235 To 611, 257, and Fill. Switch to the Move tool, hover just outside the top-right corner of the marquee until the cursor turns into a rotate arrow, and drag around 45° so the square stands on its point. Press Cmd+D to commit the rotation.

Mucha's halos are rings inside rings. Here every ring comes from one circle and Shrink.

With Rule selected, add a layer called Halo. Click once with the Elliptical Marquee and enter From 336, 311 To 864, 839: a 528 px circle centred on the guides' crossing (600, 575). Then work inwards:

1. Fill with ink. Shrink 3, fill with gold #D49B36. Shrink 6, press Delete. That leaves a thin ink edge and a gold band round the outside.
2. Press Cmd+D (the click-once dialog only opens when nothing is selected; you'll do this before every typed-in shape from now on), click once for a new circle, From 350, 325 To 850, 825, and fill with ink.
3. Shrink 4, fill with teal #2E6A66.
4. Shrink 16, fill with ink.
5. Shrink 3, fill with pale gold #F3DA9E: this is the plate the flower sits on.
6. Shrink 9, fill with gold #D49B36. Shrink 3, fill with pale gold again. That leaves a thin gold ring just inside the plate's edge.

Press Cmd+D.

Add a layer called Halo Beads and pick the Brush. Click Radial Symmetry in the options bar (the snowflake). A Segments box appears next to it.

Radial Symmetry repeats each dab round a centre point. Cmd-click the centre of the halo, at (600, 575), to move the symmetry centre there. It stays there until you move it, so you'll reuse it for the whole dahlia.

• Set Segments 32, Size 9, colour cream #F8F0DC, and click once in the middle of the teal band at the top (600, 337). Thirty-two beads appear round the ring.
• Set Segments 64 and Size 4.5 and click once on the outer gold band at (600, 318).
• Set Segments 48, Size 4, colour gold #D49B36, and click once just inside the plate edge at (600, 354).
• Set Segments 28, Size 3.5, colour dark gold #A06B1E, and drag one short line slowly and straight up from (600, 455) to (600, 363). You get 28 spokes. The flower will cover their inner ends.

The dahlia has three rings of petals, and each ring gets two layers: an ink layer for the outlines and a colour layer underneath. Start with the outer ring.

Add a layer called Ring A Ink. Brush Size 7, Hardness 100, ink, Radial Symmetry on with Segments 14 (the centre is still at 600, 575).

Draw a single petal pointing straight up, in one stroke: start just left of centre at about (585, 519), sweep out to a sharp tip at (600, 363) just inside the gold plate, and come back down the other side to (615, 519). Make it widest about two-thirds of the way out, roughly 74 px across, so each petal overlaps the next. Fourteen petals appear at once.

Now set Size 2.6 and drag one short crease up the middle of the top petal, from about (600, 491) to (600, 407). That's repeated too.

Click the Halo Beads row and add a layer called Ring A Colour. Because new layers go above the selected one, it lands under Ring A Ink.

Click the Ring A Ink row. Take the Magic Wand (W) with Contiguous on and click an empty spot outside the petals but inside the halo, such as (600, 339). The wand only reads the selected layer, so it selects everything outside the outlines.

Choose Select → Inverse. Now just the flower is selected. Click the Ring A Colour row, set the foreground to rose #C9586C, and Edit → Fill. The colour sits neatly under the ink lines.

Keep the selection. With Ring A Colour selected, add a layer called Ring A Shade. It sits between the colour and the ink.

Brush Size 56, Hardness 100, Opacity 100, crimson #8A2A40, Radial Symmetry still on at 14. Click once at (600, 421), on the top petal's crease, about 154 px above the centre. The selection keeps all fourteen dabs inside the petals. Each dab's round, hard edge leaves a crimson base and a rose tip, the way flash is shaded. Press Cmd+D.

Click Ring A Ink. With the Brush at Size 3 in cream #F8F0DC, draw one short line just right of the top petal's crease, from about (614, 433) to (608, 394). That's the shine on every petal.

Repeat the last three steps one layer higher for Ring B:

1. Click Ring A Ink, add Ring B Ink. Brush Size 7 in ink, Segments 14. Draw one petal pointing slightly right of straight up, half a petal's turn (about 13°) clockwise, so the new petals sit between the old ones. Its base is about 46 px from the centre, its tip at about (633, 429), and it's about 58 px wide. Add the crease at Size 2.6.
2. Click Ring A Ink, add Ring B Colour. Click Ring B Ink, wand outside the new petals at (600, 395), Select → Inverse, click Ring B Colour and fill with blush #E58E8E. This layer covers the Ring A ink lines that run behind the new petals.
3. Add Ring B Shade and, with the selection still live, click a Size 44 dab in rose #C9586C on the tilted petal's crease, about 102 px from the centre. Press Cmd+D.
4. Add a Size 3 cream flick on Ring B Ink.

Do it once more for Ring C, the small inner ring, with Segments 10:

• Outline at Size 5 in ink, petals pointing straight up, base about 36 px out, tip about 98 px out, about 44 px wide.
• Colour pale petal #F7CDBF (wand outside at (601, 447)).
• Shade with a Size 33 blush #E58E8E dab about 50 px above the centre, then press Cmd+D. No flick on this ring.

Turn Radial Symmetry off for a moment. Click Ring C Ink, add a layer called Centre, and make a circle with the click-once dialog: From 558, 533 To 642, 617.

Pick the Gradient tool (it's in the toolbox; it has no shortcut), choose Radial, and click Advanced… in the options bar. Click each stop under the gradient bar and type its colour in the Hex field: pale gold #F3DA9E on the left, gold #D49B36 on the right. Drag from just above-left of the centre, at (590, 563), to (630, 607). Deselect.

Add a Stroke of 5 to Centre.

Add a layer called Seeds. Pick the Brush again: Size 7, dark gold #A06B1E, Radial Symmetry on. With Segments 12, click once 28 px above the centre. With Segments 6, click once at (607, 563). Turn symmetry off and click the centre itself.

The ribbon is three Pen shapes. Pen shapes become selections with Path to Selection in the Paths panel (open it from the right-hand toolbar), which you then fill. After each Path to Selection, click Delete Path so old paths don't get in the way of new ones.

Click Seeds and add a layer called Ribbon Tails. Pick the Pen (P). Turn Radial Symmetry off if it's still on. Click five corner points for the left tail, starting with its lower outer point: (230, 818), then (318, 806) and (318, 752), which will be hidden under the band, then out to the upper point at (232, 764) and in to the notch at (254, 791). Click the first point again to close the path. Start each closed shape at its left-most point, because the Pen's ✓ and ✗ buttons appear just left of the first anchor.

In the Paths panel click Path to Selection, fill with tan #D7C397, and click Delete Path. Draw the right tail as its mirror image. Then add two small triangles for the folds, where the band turns under, in dark brown #5E4630. Deselect and add a Stroke effect, Width 4.

Add a layer called Ribbon. With the Pen, draw a curved band, 50 px deep, that follows the bottom of the halo:

1. Click (292, 776), the band's lower-left corner.
2. Click (309, 729), its upper-left corner.
3. At (600, 780), press and drag a little to the right to make a smooth dip.
4. Click (891, 729), then (909, 776).
5. At (600, 830), press and drag a little to the left.
6. Click the first point to close the shape. Path to Selection, fill with cream #F8F0DC, deselect, and add a Stroke of 5.

With Ribbon selected, make the text first so you know its width: Marcellus SC, Size 30, ink, Letter spacing 6. Click in an empty area, type MEMENTO · FLORIS and press Tab. Rename the layer Ribbon Text. It is about 360 px wide.

Now draw the curve the letters will sit on. With the Pen, click-and-drag five points along a shallow arc through the lower half of the ribbon band, starting at about (420, 797) on the left, running through (600, 815) in the middle, and ending at about (780, 797). That's the same width as the text. Drag each handle along the curve so the arc stays smooth. Commit the path with the ✓ button in the options bar. Don't press Enter, which would stroke the path onto the layer.

Click the Ribbon Text row, pick the Text tool, and choose the arc from the Path dropdown in the Text options bar. Each letter moves onto the curve and turns to follow it.

The text starts at the path's first point, so an arc the same width as the text centres it automatically. Check that the capitals sit with even space above and below inside the band. Then click the path's row in the Paths panel to deselect it and hide its line. Keep the path: deleting it would unbind the text.

The leaves go behind the halo, so click the Rule row before adding a layer called Hero Leaves.

For each leaf, draw a closed almond shape with the Pen: click the base and the tip as corners, and drag handles at the points along each side. Fill it with leaf green #8DA683. Then draw just the leaf's left half, from base to tip along the midrib, and fill it with leaf shadow #4A6A53. Two hard tones read as flash; a gradient wouldn't.

Make two leaves on each side, tucked under the ribbon ends: one from a base at (530, 806) to a tip at (384, 906), about 60 px wide, and a slimmer one from (470, 790) to (322, 826). Mirror both on the right (base (670, 806) to tip (816, 906), and (730, 790) to (878, 826)). Deselect and add a Stroke of 5.

On a new layer, Leaf Veins, keep leaf shadow #4A6A53 as the foreground and Pen-stroke a midrib down each leaf at 3. Delete each path after stroking it, so the next click doesn't edit it.

On a layer called Tendrils, set the foreground to ink and Pen-stroke two curls at 6. Start the left one under the ribbon at (588, 820), swing it down and out, and finish in a tightening spiral round about (532, 908). Mirror it on the right.

Add a layer called Chain. Pick the Brush and, in the Brushes panel, set Size 11 and Spacing 140%. Spacing over 100% leaves gaps between dabs, so a straight stroke becomes a row of beads.

In gold #D49B36, click just under the ribbon at (600, 842), then Shift-click at (600, 1186). Add a Stroke of 2 so every bead gets its own outline.

Set Spacing back to 4% before you paint anything else, or every later brush line comes out dotted.

Click Hero Leaves, then Shift-click Ribbon Text to select everything from the leaves to the ribbon text. Choose Layer → Group Layers and name the group Medallion. Collapse it with its arrow.

Try it out: select the group, switch to Move, press Shift+Right four times, and the whole medallion slides 40 px. Press Cmd+Z four times to put it back. Nothing else on the page moves.

Each of the other flash pieces gets its own group. Start every piece by clicking Rule, so its layers go in below the Medallion group.

The dagger stands on the x 250 line, with its pommel at the top and its point at the bottom. Add a layer called Blade. With the Pen, draw a long blade pointing down. It is 48 px wide at the top (y 1176), narrows gradually, and ends in a sharp point at (250, 1518). Path to Selection and fill with steel #E1E6E3. Then draw just the right half, from the centre line to the right edge, and fill it with steel shadow #8B9A9C. Deselect and add a Stroke of 5.

For a brushed look, Cmd-click the Blade thumbnail to select its shape. Add a layer called Blade Grain, fill it with grey #808080, run Filter → Add Noise... at Amount 60 with Mono, then Filter → Motion Blur... at Angle 90, Distance 40. Deselect, set the layer to Overlay and drop it to 60%.

On a layer called Dagger Lines, set the foreground to ink. Pen-stroke a ridge down the middle of the blade at 4, from (250, 1184) to (250, 1498). Then Pen-stroke two small curls at 5, hanging down from the guard tips at (146, 1154) and (354, 1154).

Guard: add a layer called Guard. Pen a slim bow shape across the top of the blade, from x 146 to x 354 and y 1142 to y 1178. Make it pointed at both ends, with the top edge nearly flat and the bottom edge bowing down. Fill it with gold #D49B36. Then hold Alt and drag a rectangle with the Rectangular Marquee over its top half. Alt-drag subtracts from the selection, leaving only the bottom band. Fill that with dark gold #A06B1E, deselect, and add a Stroke of 4.

Grip: add a layer called Grip. Pen a rectangle 30 px wide from y 1033 down to the guard at y 1146, pinched in to 24 px wide at the middle (y 1090). Fill it with crimson #8A2A40. Keep it selected. With the Pencil at Size 2 in pale gold #F3DA9E, make the wire: click on the grip's left edge, then Shift-click on its right edge 14 px lower. Start the next wire 12 px further down, and repeat to the bottom. The selection keeps the wire inside the grip. Deselect and add a Stroke of 4.

Pommel: add a layer called Pommel. Make a circle From 223, 979 To 277, 1033 and fill it with a radial gradient, pale gold to gold. Press Cmd+D, make a 22 px circle in the middle (From 239, 995 To 261, 1017), and fill it with teal #2E6A66. Deselect. Click once with a Size 5 cream brush on the gem's upper left for a glint, and add a Stroke of 4.

The bud sits about a third of the way down the blade, centred at (250, 1278). Add a layer called Dagger Sepals. Pen three small pointed leaves round where its base will be (around y 1325), one curling up on each side and one pointing down, and fill them with leaf green. Add a Stroke of 4.

Add a layer called Dagger Bud. Pen a teardrop, 80 px wide and 108 px tall, centred on (250, 1278), with a corner at its pointed top, and fill it with rose #C9586C. Keep it selected. With the Elliptical Marquee, hold Alt and drag an ellipse a little smaller than the bud, shifted up and left. What's left selected is a crescent down the bud's right side, as in the screenshot. Fill it with crimson #8A2A40, deselect, and add a Stroke of 5.

Add a layer called Dagger Bud Lines, set the foreground to ink, and Pen-stroke two curved petal edges at 3, each from the bud's base up towards its tip. Add a short cream flick on the bud's upper left with a Size 4 brush.

Finish with three loose petals on a new layer called Loose Petals: small teardrops about 20 px wide, filled with rose and tilted at different angles, falling beside the blade at about (320, 1418), (188, 1458) and (302, 1498). Add a Stroke of 3.

Click Blade, Shift-click Loose Petals, choose Layer → Group Layers, and name it Dagger.

With the group selected and no marquee active (press Cmd+D to be sure), switch to Move. Hover just outside the top-right corner of the group's box until you see the rotate cursor, and drag anticlockwise about 9°. Press Esc to drop the handles; the rotation stays. A slight tilt makes the sheet feel hand-placed.

Click Rule. On a layer called Locket Flourish, set the foreground to ink and Pen-stroke two whiplash curls at 5. Each starts at the side of where the heart will be, at about (492, 1232) and (708, 1232), arcs outwards, and spirals into a curl at about (430, 1314) and (770, 1314).

Add a layer called Heart. Draw a heart with the Pen, 230 px wide, centred at (600, 1262): a corner at the top dip, a corner at the bottom point, and smooth points round the two lobes. Fill it with gold #D49B36.

For the hard shadow, take the Elliptical Marquee and Alt-drag an ellipse that covers almost the whole heart but sits a little up and to the left, from about (450, 1132) to (710, 1374). Only a crescent on the right edge and bottom point stays selected. Fill it with dark gold #A06B1E, deselect, and add a Stroke of 5.

Cmd-click the Heart thumbnail to select its shape, then Select → Shrink… by 15. Add a layer called Heart Line, fill the selection with ink, then Shrink 3 more and press Delete. What's left is a 3 px line that follows the heart's edge 15 px in.

For the keyhole, still on Heart Line: press Cmd+D, make a circle From 586, 1238 To 614, 1266 and fill it with ink. Then Pen a small trapezoid below it, 14 px wide at the top (y 1264) and 28 px wide at the bottom (y 1302), and fill that too. Press Cmd+D. With a Size 6 cream brush, drag a short flick on the upper-left lobe.

Add a layer called Bail. Press Cmd+D and make a circle From 585, 1190 To 615, 1220 in the heart's top dip, fill it with gold, Shrink 6, and press Delete to leave a ring. Deselect and add a Stroke of 3. The chain now runs straight into the ring.

Group Locket Flourish through Bail as Locket.

Click Rule and draw the left-hand sprig on its own layers:

• Sprig Stem: with ink as the foreground, Pen-stroke an S-shaped stem at 6, from (196, 862) up to (196, 456) under where the bud will be, swinging out to the left on the way. Add a little curl at the bottom.
• Sprig Leaves: two leaves off the stem, two-tone like the medallion leaves: one from (136, 700) up and left to a tip at (84, 580), one from (176, 552) down and right to (262, 630). Add a Stroke of 5.
• Sprig Veins: midribs Pen-stroked at 2.5 in ink.
• A bud at the top, made exactly like the dagger's bud: Sprig Sepals, Sprig Bud with its crescent, and Sprig Bud Lines.

Group these layers as Sprig Left.

The right-hand sprig is a mirror image, so copy the finished one instead of drawing it again.

Copy Merged copies everything visible inside the selection, flattened. Hide Background, Paper Texture and the Medallion group with their eye buttons first, or the paper comes along too. Then drag a rectangular marquee round the sprig, with a little room on every side but keeping its left edge right of the frame rules (x 60 or more), and choose Edit → Copy Merged.

Show the three layers again and press Cmd+D.

Collapse Sprig Left with its arrow, click its row, and choose Edit → Paste. The copy lands exactly on top of the original as a new layer; rename it Sprig Right.

Choose Image → Flip Horizontal. The layer mirrors in place. Then drag it with the Move tool to the right of the halo, and finish with the arrow keys until it's exactly as far from the right edge as the original is from the left: its stem should sit at x 1004.

Click Rule and add a layer called Moon. Make a circle From 780, 1026 To 1080, 1326. Set up a Linear gradient from pale gold #F3DA9E through gold #D49B36 to dark gold #A06B1E: in Advanced…, click an empty spot on the bar to add the middle stop and type its colour. Drag the gradient from the circle's upper left to its lower right.

Press Cmd+D, make a second circle, From 862, 994 To 1110, 1242, overlapping the first towards the upper right, and press Delete. (If the dialog didn't open, nothing is selected and Delete would remove the whole layer, so check for marching ants first.) A crescent is left. Deselect and add a Stroke of 5.

Flash moons get a hard band of shadow along the inside curve. Add a layer called Moon Shade, press Cmd+D, and fill a circle a little bigger than the hole you just cut, From 842, 974 To 1130, 1262, with dark gold #A06B1E.

Now trim it to the moon. Cmd-click the Moon thumbnail, choose Select → Inverse so everything except the moon is selected, click the Moon Shade row and press Delete. Only a band along the moon's inner edge is left. Deselect, set the layer to Multiply at 70%.

Cmd-click the Moon thumbnail again, Shrink 12, and on a new layer called Moon Line fill with ink, Shrink 3 and Delete. That leaves an engraved line inside the crescent.

With a Size 5 cream brush, drag two short curved flicks along the outer edge of the moon on its left, following the curve.

The moon cradles a small copy of the dahlia. Expand the Medallion group and hide Background, Paper Texture, Halo, Halo Beads, Ribbon, Ribbon Tails and Ribbon Text.

Select a circle round the flower, From 382, 357 To 818, 793, choose Edit → Copy Merged, then show those layers again, collapse the group and deselect.

Click Moon Line and Edit → Paste. Rename the new layer Mini Dahlia. It lands exactly on top of the big dahlia, so the page looks unchanged until you scale it.

Drag a rectangular marquee just round the pasted flower. With the Move tool, hold Cmd and drag the bottom-right corner handle inwards until the flower is a bit under half size, about 200 px across. Cmd keeps the proportions. Press Cmd+D to commit the scale.

Drag the small flower into the moon's hollow, centred at about (940, 1158), so its lower-left petals overlap the inner horn. Add a Stroke of 4 so its outline is as bold as everything else.

Add a layer called Dangles. Brush Size 9, Spacing 140%, gold. Click on the moon's lower edge and Shift-click straight down to make three bead strands: the outer two about 56 px long, the middle one about 96 px. Put a teal #2E6A66 circle 20 px across at the end of each strand with the click-once dialog and Fill, pressing Cmd+D before each one. Deselect and add a Stroke of 2.

Group Moon through Dangles as Crescent.

Click Rule. On a layer called Cartouche Curls, set the foreground to ink and Pen-stroke two small whiplash curls at 5, one off each end of where the tablet will go (x 476 and x 724, y 1476), curling outwards.

Add a layer called Cartouche. Rectangular Marquee click, From 476, 1446 To 724, 1506. To round its corners, Shrink 14 and then Grow 14. Grow rounds corners as it expands, so shrinking first and growing back by the same amount gives the same rectangle with rounded corners. Fill with cream.

Then Shrink 7 and fill with ink, Shrink 2 and fill with cream: an inner rule. Deselect and add a Stroke of 5.

With Cartouche selected, add the text Nº VII in Marcellus SC, Size 28, crimson, Letter spacing 4 (on a Mac, type º with Alt+0). Rename the layer Plate Number and nudge it to the middle of the tablet.

Click Rule and add a layer called Sparkles. With the Pen, click eight corner points for a four-point star: the four tips 24 px from the centre, and four inner points between them, about 7 px from the centre. Fill it with pale gold. Draw three of these: at (440, 1030), (760, 1030) and (1086, 1446).

For the smaller ones, copy instead of drawing. Marquee round the first star and choose Edit → Copy once. For each small star: choose Edit → Paste, draw a marquee round the pasted star, switch to Move (V), Cmd-drag a corner handle to scale it to half or less, press Cmd+D, and drag it into place. Switch back to the marquee for the next one. Place them in mirrored pairs: (492, 1102) with (708, 1102), (374, 1508) with (826, 1508), and one at (1094, 1010).

Select the topmost pasted star and choose Layer → Merge Down until they're all on Sparkles, then add a Stroke of 3.

Click the collapsed Medallion group (just under the Title and Subtitle rows) and add a layer called Vignette. Because the group is collapsed, the new layer goes above it rather than into it.

• Vignette: set a Radial gradient of white, white again at 66% along the bar, and warm tan #DECBA6 at the end. Drag from the centre of the page (600, 800) to the top-left corner (0, 0). That's a 1000 px radius, so the tan just reaches the corners. Set the layer to Multiply. The edges warm up; the art doesn't change.
• Foxing: on a layer called Foxing, click six or so times in the margins and empty corners with a soft brush (Size 46, Hardness 0, Opacity 40%) in #A9824F. Set it to Multiply at 35% for faint age spots.
• Grain: on a layer called Grain, fill with grey #808080, run Add Noise at 30 with Mono, and set it to Overlay at 40%.

Save the project with File → Save Project, and export with File → Quick Export PNG.