Supplies you will need:
Coffee Gradient
If you do not have the cylinder shape download
all the 3d shapes
here. (unzip and place in your shapes
folder. You may have to restart Paint Shop
Pro)
Optional Alien Skin Nature:
Alien Skin Downloads (Demo
only)
Optional:
Walt Disney Font
You will need to put the
Nature Plugin into your plug-ins folder
(see tutorial on plug-ins/filters for more
help). If you downloaded the Walt Disney Font place in your fonts folder.
Coffee gradient needs to be placed in your
gradient file in PSP
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Create a new transparent image 500 x 600
Click on preset shapes and choose the cylinder
using the setting below
On your transparent image draw one out
starting at points 60, 98 and going out to 422,
596 (you can view these numbers in the bottom
corner of PSP 7) so that your image looks like
this:
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Go to your layer palette and click on the +
(plus sign) next to the cylinder, do this twice.
Double click on the front and choose a new
color. I used: #004040. Repeat the
process for the back layer. Now your
cylinder is green (or whatever color you choose)
Move your cup over to the right edge of your
image leaving one row of squares between it and
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On your layer palette click on layer one.
Now click on preset shapes and choose ring.
Using the settings below:
Start at 40, 222 and go to 150, 502.
So your image looks like this:
On your layer palette drag the ring
below the cylinder. Now repeat the color
change by double clicking on the circle and
changing the color to what you used for the
cylinder color.
This is what you should
have at this point:
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On your layer palette add a new raster layer.
Click on preset shapes and choose ellipse using
the settings below and using your coffee
gradient as your foreground and background
colors.
Draw a circle of coffee in your cup starting
at 134, 136 going to 464, 228. You can
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Go to your layer palette and right click
choosing convert to raster layer. Go up to
effects, blur, Gaussian Blur and use the
settings below:
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This part is optional. Using Alien Skin
Nature choose smoke and use the settings below
on the coffee layer:
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Your cup should now look like this:
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We can now add our character and our name.
Open up a tube of your choice. I'm using
Eeyore since he's my favorite character. Copy
and paste it as a new layer on your cup. Size it
to fit on your cup with room for your name.
Now go up to effects, geometrical, cylinder
vertical and use these settings:
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Do a drop shadow with these settings:
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I used Walt Disney Script for the font and at 48
size with #FFFFC0.
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Right click on the layer and choose convert to
raster layer. Now repeat the geometric
effect we did above.
Do a drop shadow but
at these settings:
Repeat the drop shadow 2 to 3 times.
Merge visible layers. I resized mine
to 400 x 480
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Now to get rid of that hard line at the top here
is what you do:
Go under image canvas
size and resize to 600 x 600
add a new
layer and drag it down below your coffee cup.
Flood fill it with any dark color. This is
so you can see the steam easier.
Take
your selection tool, on rectangle and feather at
50draw a rectangle just above the hard line (so
that the bottom line of the rectangle is on the
top line of steam).
Click cut repeatedly
until you get the soft edge you want.
Click selection none. Click copy and paste
as new image. Now all the excess
transparent area is gone.
Save in PNG
format.
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Remember to have fun :) |
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