Elegant Bottle 
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For this tutorial you will need to have basic knowledge of Paint Shop Pro. (My illustrations and instructions are written using version 7, but you should be able to comprehend with any version).
SAVE YOUR WORK OFTEN!
Information you'll need to know before starting:
1. Animation Shop has a "fit" when a picture with a transparent background has any drop shadows, blurs and/or lower opacities in colors. It will become more dense when you save it and will not have the same effect, so with this tutorial, it is a must to save your image(s) with a colored background.
2. We will NOT be using Selections, Float in this tutorial.
3. In Cutouts, "Fill interior with color" box will ALWAYS remain UNChecked!
4. Outline and fill color will be the same: #C1E0FF
5. In 'Cutouts', Shadow color will always be #C1E0FF.
6. We will be creating this image in many layers. You will need to have your Layer Palette showing. If that screen is not showing on your PSP, you will need to click on this icon:
If you don't see this icon, it means you don't have all your tool bars showing. For that, click on "View", then click on "Toolbars". Make sure everything is checked like this illustration:
There are a couple of ways to do this tutorial, but I chose to have you fill the inside of your outline, deselect and then reactivate your magic wand to include the outline. Your other option is NOT to fill, activate the outline(s) by using your magic wand and click anywhere outside of outline. Click Select, Invert, THEN go into Cutout and complete the instructions.
OK! I think we're all set now! Let's Begin!
Open up a 200 X 200 canvas with a colored background. Either white or black would be easiest....you can always change the color of the background at the end.
Outlines
outline color: #C1E0FF
Click on Layers, Add New Raster layer. Name it Rim. Pixel in outline below:
Hide this layer by clicking on the little eye glasses on the layer palette.
Click on Layers, Add New Raster layer. Name it bottle. Pixel in outline below:
Hide this layer by clicking on the little eye glasses on the layer palette.
Click on Layers, Add New Raster layer. Name it ball top. Pixel in outline below:
Hide this layer by clicking on the little eye glasses on the layer palette.
Click on Layers, Add New Raster layer. Name it Stopper. Pixel in outline below:
Hide this layer by clicking on the little eye glasses on the layer palette.
Click on Layers, Add New Raster layer. Name it Base Bottom. Pixel in outline below:
Hide this layer by clicking on the little eye glasses on the layer palette.
Click on Layers, Add New Raster layer. Name it Base Top. Pixel in outline below:
Hide this layer by clicking on the little eye glasses on the layer palette.
ARRANGING THE DIFFERENT LAYERS AND MOVING THE OUTLINES INTO PLACE:
Starting with your ball top, Unhide this layer. With your mover tool, move the ball top up to the top of the canvas without going over it and center it a bit.
Next, unhide your stopper layer. With your mover tool, move it to the ball top, overlapping the bottom line of the ball topper to the top line of the stopper. See illustration:
Next, unhide your rim layer. With your mover tool, move it to the stopper, overlapping the bottom line of the second row of outline of the stopper to the top line of the rim. See illustration:
Next, unhide your bottle layer. With your mover tool, move it to the rim, overlapping the bottom line of the rim to the top line of the bottle. See illustration:
Next, unhide your top base layer. With your mover tool, move it to the bottom of the bottle, overlapping the bottom line of the bottle to the center line of the top base layer. See illustration:
Next, unhide your bottom base layer. With your mover tool, move it to the bottom of the top base layer, overlapping the bottom line of the top base layer to the center line of the bottom base layer. See illustration:
It should look like this when you have completed all the overlapping:
Now, to arrange the layers on your layer palette:
With your mouse, activate the rim layer and 'drag' it to the top of your layer palette layers. Next, activate your bottle layer and drag it just below the rim layer. Next, activate your ball top layer and drag it just below the bottle layer. Next, activate your stopper layer and drag it just below the ball top layer. Next, activate your bottom base layer and drag it just below the stopper layer and your last layer (top base layer) should be just above your background layer.
Your layer palette should look like this:
Hide ALL your layers EXCEPT your rim layer. (Click on the eye glasses to put a RED X - to hide the layers).
FILL:
Activate your magic wand and click inside of rim. Floodfill with #C1E0FF. Deselect (Ctrl D). Reactivate your magic wand and click inside of rim (to include outline). Click on Effects, 3D Effects, Cutout using these settings:
Vertical -1
Horizontal 0
Opacity 100
Blur 5
Deselect and hide layer.
Unhide and activate your bottle layer.
Activate your magic wand and click inside of bottle. Floodfill with #C1E0FF. Deselect (Ctrl D). Reactivate your magic wand and click inside of bottle (to include outline). Click on Effects, 3D Effects, Cutout using these settings:
Vertical -3
Horizontal 0
Opacity 100
Blur 30
Deselect and hide layer.
Unhide and activate your ball top layer.
Activate your magic wand and click inside of ball top. Floodfill with #C1E0FF. Deselect (Ctrl D). Reactivate your magic wand and click inside of ball top (to include outline). Click on Effects, 3D Effects, Cutout using these settings:
Vertical -3
Horizontal 0
Opacity 100
Blur 30
Deselect and hide layer.
Unhide and activate your stopper layer.
Activate your magic wand and click inside of stopper. Floodfill with #C1E0FF. Deselect (Ctrl D). Reactivate your magic wand and click inside of stopper (to include outline). Click on Effects, 3D Effects, Cutout using these settings:
Vertical -3
Horizontal 0
Opacity 100
Blur 30
Deselect, lower opacity to 40 (on the ride side on your layer palette, you will see 100's. In the area to the left is a slide bar area to lower your opacity). Hide layer.
Unhide and activate your base bottom layer.
Activate your magic wand and click inside of base bottom. Floodfill with #C1E0FF. Deselect (Ctrl D). Reactivate your magic wand and click inside of base bottom (to include outline). Click on Effects, 3D Effects, Cutout using these settings:
Vertical 1
Horizontal 0
Opacity 100
Blur 6.3
Deselect and hide layer.
Unhide and activate your base top layer.
Activate your magic wand and click inside of base top. Floodfill with #C1E0FF. (Don't forget the tiny pixel to the right) Deselect (Ctrl D). Reactivate your magic wand and click inside of base top (to include outline). Click on Effects, 3D Effects, Cutout using these settings:
Vertical 1
Horizontal 0
Opacity 100
Blur 6.3
Deselect and hide layer.
HIGHLIGHTS:
Unhide and Activate your bottle layer. With your magic wand, click OUTSIDE of bottle. Click Selections, Invert. Click Layers, Add New Raster Layer and name it bottle highlight. Use the color white (#FFFFFF) to color inside of bottle for highlights. See illustration for example:
Keep selected. Click on 'Effects', 'Blur', 'Gaussian Blur', Radius 5.00
If you're planning on adding anything inside the bottle (doll, butterfly, etc), you might want to lower the opacity on this highlight to 60. Deselect and hide layer.
Unhide and Activate your ball top layer. With your magic wand, click OUTSIDE of ball top. Click Selections, Invert. Click Layers, Add New Raster Layer and name it ball top highlights. Use the color white (#FFFFFF) to color inside of ball top for highlights. See illustration for example:
Keep selected. Click on 'Effects', 'Blur', 'Gaussian Blur', Radius 3.00
Deselect and hide layer.
CHAIN (opt.):
Click on Layers, Add New Raster Layer and name it back chain. Pixel in the back chain using illustration below.
If your bottle layer is hiding, unhide bottle layer and arrange this chain to the lower part of bottle neck. See illustration:
On your layer palette, drag this layer to the bottom, just above the background layer. Lower opacity to 50
Click on Layers, Add New Raster Layer and name it front chain. Pixel in the front chain using illustration below.
Arrange this chain to the lower part of bottle neck, overlapping the two end links to the two back chain end links. Fill center of heart with yellow.
Hide your background layer and unhide ALL the other layers. Merge, Merge visible. Unhide background and now you can change your background color to whatever you wish! Light blue does NOT show the bottle very well. Once you have it the way you want, Merge, Merge Visible and save.
That's it!
I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial!
~Tutorial created on 03/19/05~
