Welcome to my "Pool Tutorial". *smile* This tutorial is quite complex and
involves a lot of layers. It also makes use of many of the tools in
psp...preset shapes tool, draw tool, background textures, and deformations, to
name, but a few.
Below you will find a copy of the water texture I used, and some zip files of psp images to use in your rendition...more specifically, an example of the transparent file used for the fish on the pool liner, and a copy of the various "struts" used on the frame of the pool...presized and already deformed. *smile* 
Just click on the above picture to download the psp files for the water and
grass patterns I have used and a transparent psp file for the liner pattern.
To use these files, simply bring the file into psp...and then set your
foreground styles and background textures to the "pattern" selection". Click
on your control bar...and then review your upper level samples to find the
pattern you want to use. Set the % factor to the one you like, and then use
your flood fill tool.
If you want to keep these images as permanent files in your patterns file, simply save them as ".bmp" or bitmap files...and then add them to your "patterns" psp program file. Your choice. 
Click on the image above...and you can download some tubes of the "struts" that
I used around the frame of the pool. The "large, metallic one" is the original
graphic, using a gradient bar pattern fill that I made in psp 5.0, before Jasc
incorporated a gradient file into the program.
The other bars have been altered with the "deformation tool". You can colourize to compliment the colour of your pool liner. Just be sure to keep the "saturation" value to around "150+". The first tube is my example of a ladder for the pool. For those that have problems "drawing" with a "mouse",...use this tube for your rendition, and colourize it the way you like. *smile*
The tube for the lady has been altered, in as much as I erased the "regular
ladder" she was initialling climbing, so I could place her properly in the
pool. The tube belongs to
"Virginia"
.
Now, on to the tutorial! *grin* 
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