You will need this wood pattern to complete this tut. Right click and save to your hard drive. You may of course use one of your favorites in place of this.
1. Open a new image 500x500, transparent background. Open the wood008 pattern file.
2. Add a new layer called arch.
3. In your tool options select your rectangle, atialias checked. Place your cursor at your 100x150 mark (your co-ordinates can be viewed in bottom left of your screen as shown in the diagram).
4. While holding down your mouse draw out to 200x450.
5. In your styles foreground option, select pattern and choose your woodfill.
Find your woodgrain and select it. Floodfill your selection with it. Keep selected and got to Effects,texture effects, Weave, and use the settings shown below.Deselect.
6. Using your magic wand, tolerance=0, select a white square and then go to Selections-->modify-->Select similar.This will select all the white squares. (big thanks to Patti for putting me onto this shortcut) After you have all of them selected..hit delete. Deselect.
7. Add a new layer called lattice edge.Choose your presets shape tool. Make sure your background in your styles palette is set to Null. Select your rectangle tool with these settings.
Set your style palette from your woodgrain back to a solid fill and choose a color such as purple that will stand out. Draw a rectangle around your lattice, starting at 90,140 and drawing out to 210,458.This should make it a little bigger that the lattice.
8. Click on your deformation tool in your toolbar.You will now have nodes around your graphic.Drag your nodes in on the sides and top to pull them into place against your lattice as shown. You might need to zoom in a little to see better to get it just right.
When you have it lined up like you want it..double click on your image and it will be applied.
9. Select your magic wand, tolerance =0, feather=0, and select the purple area so that you have marching ants around it. Go to selections, modify, expand and enter 2. In your styles palette select your woodgrain fill again and with your floodfill tool Floodfill this selection with your woodgrain pattern. While still selected go to innerbevel and appy these settings. Deselect.
10. Turn off layer 1 in your layer palette and with your lattice edge highlighted merge visible. Rename the merged layer lattice.
11. Add a new layer called arches. Change your styles palette back to a solid color like purple as we did before. Select your preset shapes tool set to ellipse with these settings.
Starting at 150x200 draw an ellipse out to 370x340. Now use your mover tool to drag and move it over so that the center left side of the ellipse is lined up with the top left edge of the lattice underneath.
12. Once it is in position go to edit copy, image paste as new selection. You should now have 2 ellipses.
13. Line the second one up with the first one as shown in the diagram. Deselect. With your selection tool set to rectangle, feather= 0.start at the left hand corner where your first ellispe meets the lattice and select all the way across the 2nd ellipse and down so that we have the lower half of the ellipses selected.
14. Hit delete. Your image should now look like this. Deselect.
15. Select your draw tool with these settings.
16. Draw a line across the bottom of each arch as shown. Note that to do this you single click where you wish your line to begin...then move your cursor to where you want it to finish and double click. Your line will show once you have double clicked.
Start 
finish
This is what they should look like after both lines have been made. 
17. Next using your magic wand, tolerance=0, feather=0,hold down your shift key and select the open area's inside the arches . Go to selections, modify, expand. by 2 .Set your styles back to pattern and floodfill with your wood pattern. Keep selected...go to Effects, texture, Weave And use the same settings as before.( it should still be set to them). Deselect.
18. With your magic wand tolerance=0, feather=0 hold down your shift key and select all the little white squares.
When you have all them selected...hit Delete to delete them. Deselect.
19. With your Magic Wand select the outline of the arch.
( In this picture it is the purple part) Yours will depend on what you set your foreground color to when you drew your ellipse's.
20. Use your flood fill to fill it with the wood pattern again.
Go to 3d effects, Inner Bevel and use the same settings as before and apply. Now you should have this. Deselect.
21. Next go to your layer palette. Highlight your lattice layer, then right click on it. Select duplicate layer. Next go up to image, mirror. Now you will have two lattice sides. Using your mover tool Move your new lattice over to the right hand side.
Tada!!! A lovely arch and not so hard to do either was it? :) OK you can now merge all of your layers if you like and save this as a tube for later. Decorate it with flowers or whatever you like to finish it off.
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