Colonial Kitchen Fireplace Tutorial
This tutorial includes the tools and pot. It was made with PSP 8, but can be done in earlier versions.All you will need is the colonial fireplace file.
Optional - the colonial cooker
The terms of use are here
Selections - Load/Save Selections - Load Selection from Alpha Channel
Click on the selection you want and then on Load
1. Open the alpha file you downloaded. Click on the Ovens layer and get the Ovens selection. Flood-fill with #404040. Keep selected and then click on the Oven Shadow layer.
2. Oven Shadow layer. Go to:
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
V & H 15, Opacity 100, Blur 10, Colour black.
We did the shadow this way so that if you wanted to put a pot or food or something in the oven, it would be under the shadow.
3. Hearth - Flood-fill with black.
4. Back - Flood-fill with a brick pattern--I used Brick 01-Scale 40. Keep selected and click on the Back Soot layer.
5. Back Soot layer - click on the Airbrush Tool
, set your Foreground Colour to black, and use these settings:
Thickness 100, Opacity 50, Blend Mode - Normal
Click around until you like the effect, then go to
Adjust - Blur - Blur
6. Left Side layer - Flood-fill with your brick pattern and then click on the Deformation Tool
. You'll get a message about promoting the layer. Click "Yes." Then turn off the original Left Side layer, so you can see what you're doing. [I don't get this at all. :( ]. Then go back to the promoted layer and, pressing the CTRL key, move on of the right corners down to meet the Back:
Get rid of the Deformation thing by clicking on another Tool.
7. Go to
Image - Mirror
Press CTRL-A and then click on the Magic Wand
Click on the bricks to select them
Holding down the SHIFT key, keep pressing the Arrow key pointing left, until this side is in place.
Go to Selections - Defloat. Keep selected!
8. Click on the Right Side Soot layer, (set the Foreground colour to black) use the Airbrush again to make the soot, and then go to Adjust - Blur - Blur.
9. Now Click on the Left Side Soot layer, select by pressing CTRL-A and clicking with the Magic Wand, and add the soot and blur.
10. Bracket and Damper - Flood-fill with Black.
If your soot is too dark to see the Bracket and Damper hooks, go back to the Back Soot layer and lower the opacity of the layer, by using the slider in the Layer Pallette.
11. Outline - Flood-fill with your brick pattern.
12. Frame layer - Flood-fill with one of the colours in your brick pattern. (I used #A27051)
13. Grout layer - Flood-fill with the colour of the grouting in your brick pattern. (If you used the Bricks 01 pattern, the colour is #D6CDB6.
14. Facing layer - Flood-fill with one of your brick colours (#9B6C4E).
15. Wood layer - Just open the layer.
16. Flame layer - Click on the Picture Tube tool
and find the Fire tube in the Tool Ribbon. Set the Scale to 40. Then click over the wood logs a few times.
Some of the flames will go below the logs. To get rid of these bottom flames, click on the Eraser Tool
, with a size at least 25, and erase.
17. Grate layer - Flood-fill with black. Apply the Inner Bevel, Angled preset.
18. If you want the pot, it is on the next layer.
19. Tools layer - Flood-fill with black and apply the Angled preset again.
20. Mantle layer - Flood-fill with one of your wood patterns, and apply the following Drop Shadow:
21. Shadow layer - Flood-fill with black.
22. Cooker - open the cooker.psp file you downloaded, copy (CTRL-C), go back to your fireplace image, and paste (CTRL-E)into place.
All done. Congratulations! I hope you like your fireplace.
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