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A Gazing Globe in PSP7
This tutorial uses PSP7, KPT
5 for the globe, and Eye Candy, if you choose to use a perspective shadow.
You'll find my gazingglobeblue and goldenegg presets, (put these in your plugin/kpt5/presets/shapeshifter
folder), and all the pieces you'll need to make this project in this zip.
Also I have included the cool kitchen environment for those who may not have
it. It goes in your plugin/kpt5/preset/environment map folder.
I'm also including the finished shiny globe for those who don't have KPT5.
Download my zip here.
I love vectors and I'm learning just how
amazing and powerful they are :) I'm beginning to think I'm an
iron-working apprentice!
OK, remember to save as you go along.
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Let's make the globe first. Open new file
200 X 200 transparent
background. Set your foreground and background colour to white.
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Using your preset shape tool, draw a circle, antialias checked,
(hold down shift and draw). Make it about 100X100 size - (watch the
numbers, 3rd bracket, in the lower left corner of psp window.)
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Go to Selections/select all/float to get the
circle selected. Selections/modify/expand by 1.
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Apply KPT5 Shapeshifter, use my gazing
ball preset which you have placed in your KPT5 shapeshifter folder.
You'll find it when you click on the lower round button in KPT.
These are the settings for my gazingglobeblue
preset: Note: You can change the colour of the globe by clicking
on the color button in environment, right under the "plastic"
button.....just hold it down and drag to your colour.
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You can also use my golden egg preset that I
offered with my Golden Egg tutorial. One of the greatest ways to learn
KPT, is truly by experimenting. Push those buttons! Feel free to
try out different environments - cool kitchen works well, and there are also
some other nice shiny ones in shapeshifter. Just click on the
environment window and browse to plugins/kpt5/presets/environment
maps.
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If the
edges appear a bit jaggie, use the magnify tool, go to the globe layer, and soften them
using the retouch tool, set to soften, with a brush
of 2 or 3, opacity and density at around 40%.
Save this as a .psp so you can colorize it
later to make more gazing globes.
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Ok now lets make the stand :) Open a
new image 300 X 500, transparent. Set your
foreground colour to black and turn off your background colour.
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On a new layer, using the draw tool,
draw a black straight line, width of 4, as a vector and antialias
checked, about 4 inches long.
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Now, let's node edit that rascal....click on
the object selector tool, and choose node edit in the tool option box.
Right click on the bottom of the line, and choose node type - "curve before",
now move the node arrow to make it curve outwards. Then add another
node (ctrl, click on the line), as below:
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Now, right click on the top of the line and
add another node as above. Move these 2 nodes to make them curve outwards as
well. Keep it fairly straight, just slightly outwards at the
bottom. It should look something like this:
When you're happy with the curl, right click and choose,
end node edit.
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Apply inner bevel, wrought iron setting, as
below. You can save these and name it "wrought iron", or if
you've done any other of my wrought iron tutorials, you'll already have it
in PSP :)
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Copy and paste the leg as a new layer, image/mirror.
Now use your mover tool to position the 2 legs so they are even on both
sides of the globe.
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Now for the last leg. We need to give it some
perspective so it will be shorter than the other 2 and the curl will be a
little different at the bottom. Add a new layer. Draw a line as
we did in step 6. (single, black, width 4, vector), as below:
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Node edit by adding another node up a bit from the end of
the line. Right click on this node and choose "symetric".
Now gently curve it inwards. Move the end node upwards to form a
curl. Right click on that layer in the layer palette and convert to
raster. Apply the wrought iron inner bevel.
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We'll add a base for the globe to rest on here. Add a
new layer. Using the shape tool, black foreground, background colours,
draw a small rounded rectangle to fit between the 2 bars and apply the
wrought iron inner bevel, only use a width of 2 this time.
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Ok almost done! Now to add the ring support at the
bottom..... Turn of your background style. On a new layer, draw
an elipse using the shape tool, width of 4, black and antialias checked.
Move it into position. Apply the wrought iron inner bevel
setting. Zoom in and use the eraser brush (size 2)
to erase the back 3 parts where the circle meets the legs, as below:
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When you've got the base all set, merge
visible layers, copy and paste as a new image, so you can save as a tube or
.psp. Close this copy image.
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Now, copy/paste your globe as a new layer
onto your stand image.
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If you'd
like to add a bit of mirroring onto the bottom of the globe, copy the top
section of the stand, paste as a new layer on top of the globe layer, flip,
use the deformation tool to make it fit (shift and click on the bottom
corners), set it to overlay, and adjust the opacity of the layer to around
50 or where it looks right. Merge the globe and mirror layer.
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Add a small drop shadow separately to the globe and stand in PSP, offsets
at 3, 1, opacity 75, blur 4.1.
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Merge visible layers. Copy and save as a .psp file, if
you wish to tube your gazing globe and stand. Flood fill your layer 1
with the colour or background of your choice. I used Paint Engine and
added a border of 3, blade pro and cutouts at 2,2, 60% opacity, blur 7.1,
and then at -2,-2.
Here are more finished Gazing
Globes:
You did it! You've made an Amazing, Gazing Globe!
lol
I hope you put it in a special place in your PSP garden :)
If you have any questions or comments, please
feel free to email me :)
All my tutorials are original works
created by me.
All rights reserved.
©Angie's Arts 2000,
May 2001
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