Easter Basket

Now grab your Magicwand and click inside the bottom part of your basket

Fill with #BE7954

Selections - Float

Apply Cutout of:

Vertical: 2

Horizontal: 2

Opacity: 100

Blur: 20

Shadowcolor #5F361F

Deselect

Magicwand again - this time click inside the rim

Fill with #BE7954

Selections - Float

Apply Cutout of

Vertical: 1

Horizontal: -1

Opacity: 85

Blur: 5

Shadowcolor #5F361F

Deselect

Magicwand one more time - click inside the top and fill with #BE7954

Selections - Float

Apply Cutout of:

Vertical: 2

Horizontal: -1

Opacity: 100

Blur: 7.5

Deselect

Now add a new raster layer

and pixel in some lines as shown

I used #D2A084 and the color of the outline

First go vertical like this:

Then go horizontal like this

Open new transparent Image of

60 x 60

Set Foreground to #5F361F

Grab that Paintbrush

and pixel Outline as shown:

I did mine on separate layers so I could show you the lines

This is what you should have:

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Now when you have your lines apply a Gaussian Blur of anywhere from 0.50 to 0.75

then merge your layers

Now zoom in - you will see that some of the edge of the rim disappeared

pixel it back in with the color of your Outline

Add some handles

(I pixeled mine on a new layer and lowered the opacity on my basket so I could show you how the handles are drawn)

And that's it....you're done

Now go on and decorate it