(Yes, another
wrought iron tutorial ........these darn ideas keep popping into my head!)
lol
For this tutorial,
you will need PSP7, *KPT5 Shapeshifter, my preset, (to be placed in your
KPT5/presets/shapeshifter folder), and my curled sections, if you'd rather not
make them. I am including the cool kitchen and another environment map for
KPT5 shapeshifter. Place them in your KPT5/presets/environmentmaps
folder. Download my zip here.
~~Remember to save
as you go along.~~
I started of by
making a clay pot, using Arizona Kate's wonderful tutorial you can find here. If you want to
make the pots for your holder, give her tutorial a
try........you'll love it!
* If you don't have
KPT, you of course can use the clay pot instead and skip the next step.*
GLAZING THE CLAY POT:
I resized my finished pot to
200X200. Save it as a .psp file. Make a copy of your pot by
using shift/d. Close your original copy. Be sure to use your
retouch soften brush on the edges, if they happen to be jaggy.......magnify
and use brush size 3, opacity/density around 50.
Merge all visible layers.
Select all/float to get your pot selected.
Apply my glazed pot preset as
below. You can change the mask if you like using the top mask window,
and trying any .jpg or .bmp file you wish. I used a tube on a 200X200
trans. image. You can play with the settings and see what you prefer
as far as lighting, environment tint colour, and embossing on the pot goes
(in the top mask window).
If you use "Driving by at
57 mph" environment map, it makes a cool finish too.
Just keep
sliding those sliders and pushing those buttons! That's the best way
to learn KPT :)
4. Once you've got the look
you like, save it as "glazedpot.psp". Set it aside for now.
MAKING THE PLANT HOLDER
Open a new image, 400X400
transparent.
Using your draw tool, black
foreground, null background colours, width of 4, draw a straight line about
4 inches long in the center of your canvas. On a new layer, draw a
small circle using the shapes tool, elipse/hold shift, width of 4, antialias
checked, black. Move it to the top of your black line.
Draw a black elipse/as a
vector, width of 4, and node edit and shape into a heart as below: Use
the object selector tool, node edit, right click on a node and choose
"cusp". Move the top middle node down and the side nodes
outward. Once it's the shape you like, right click/quit node
edit. Move it into position at the bottom of your line. Right
click on that vector layer, convert to raster.
Once they are in position,
merge all visible and apply my inner bevel, wrought iron preset as below:
Ok, now on to the curls....You
can draw each section as a freehand line using the draw tool, width 4, and
node edit each into shape if you like, or just copy my curl1 , curl2 and
curl3 images, and paste them each as a new layer. Apply the wrought iron
inner bevel preset to each piece separately. Move them into
position. Turn off your post layer and merge all visible.
Copy and paste
as a new layer, mirror and move onto the opposite side of the post.
Merge all
visible layers. Whew........toughest part is done! Now let's add
those pots!
Open your glazed pot
image. Copy, paste as a new layer onto your plant holder. Move
into position on the left side. Now on a new layer, draw a short line,
using the draw tool, freehand, black, 4 width, across the neck of your pot.
You may have to erase to get it to fit properly. Apply the wrought
iron inner bevel again, add a small drop shadow. Turn off the holder
layer, and merge the pot and short bar layer. Add a small drop shadow,
if you wish.
Copy and paste this 3 times and
move them into position on the holder. Merge all visible, add a drop shadow,
or perspective shadow. You can now tube it or save as a .psp
file.
Add a new layer and move it to
the bottom. Here you can create your background using any colour/texture
you wish. Try Fantastic Machine's Paint Engine or a type of wallpaper
look if you wish :)
And here is the finished image:
I hope you had fun
creating! Thanks so much for trying it out :)
I promise to try
and get ironworks off my mind! (.......it's just that it's so
cool!)
NOTE: If you like my background,
my friend Sandie has a wonderful tutorial called "Creating Marbled
backgrounds". Find it **here**.
If you
have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me :)
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