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Remember
making coils out of clay?
Rolling them out one by one like a snake then
carefully stacking them up to form pots?
Now's
your chance to make handmade coil pots digitally using Paint
Shop Pro
(they offer a free 30-day trial version if you don't have it already)
This
Coil Pottery is simple and quick to make......................
I'll walk you through the basic steps and the rest is up to your imagination!
Materials
needed:
· A good working knowledge of PSP
· The coil textured tile I made for accomplishing this effect
-
right click
the image and save it to your Hard Drive.
·Begin
by opening a new image in PSP 300 wide x 400 high, 16 million colors,
transparent background.
·Open the Coil Pottery Texture tile supplied above and minimize
it.
(I chose to make this tile a light color so it may be
colorized to suit your needs when your pot is finished)
·Select
your Preset Shapes tool - Ellipse, foreground set to Null and your
background set to Pattern, browse to select the Coil Pottery Textured
tile. Vector checked (so you can easily move it around, or node edit
to give your pot an authentic handmade look) Draw a good size elongated
ellipse in the center of your canvas as shown here:
·Once
you have it centered on your canvas and node editing complete if
you chose to do so, convert this layer to a Raster and rename the
layer Front.
·
Click on your Selections Tool, set to ellipse, anti-alias is UNchecked,
feather-0, and place it on the center of your pot near the top, we
need to cut off some to make the opening in your pot, as I've done
here:
It's
up to you how narrow or how wide your pots opening will be, remember
were shooting for a handmade look *s*.
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With the selection active grab your eraser and totally erase everything
from inside the selection area, then invert the selection and erase
everything that was above the selected area, invert the selection
again so the ants are just marching in an ellipse shape not around
the whole canvas, do not deselect!
·Next
you may find it helpful to use a GUIDE for this next step
to be sure your alignment stays uniform for the bottom of your pot.
So
using your mouse grab the ruler on the left side of your canvas and
drag it across to activate a guide and continue to drag it to the
right to meet up with the left side of your selection. (If your not
seeing a ruler, turn them on! Go to View and Click on Rulers. Not
seeing Guides either? Go to View and Click on Guides) You should be
seeing something like this now on the zoomed view below:
·Assuming
you have your Guide in place, click on your Mover tool and
RIGHT click on the marching ant line of your selection and drag it
down to near the bottom of your pot.
(Cool huh?! The empty selection can be used again in a
different location on your canvas without having to re-draw it *s*
)
Line it up with your Guide! Now Invert your Selection and Erase everything
BELOW the Selection line, then Invert the Selection again and click
COPY.
Now let's
Delete your Guide so it's out of the way, to do this simply right
click on the little bump on your top ruler that marks the Guide and
the Guide Properties box will pop up........ tick Delete guide and
say OK.
Notice the Guide Position box here..... this is useful when exact
measurements are desired. It becomes grayed out when you tick Delete
guide.
·
With the Guide out of the way, right click on the title bar of your
working canvas and select Paste As A New Layer, this should paste
the piece you Copied from the bottom of your pot. Go to Image/Flip
and with your Mover move this new layer up to use as the inside back
of your pot. Once you have it near the right position move this layer
behind your Front layer and rename this layer Back.
·
Save Your Work, your halfway finished *g*!
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