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It's a season to be joly ... I love the Christmas season
and I love to send out cards and tags with images I made myself,
so here's a pixel Christmas mailbox ! This page is graphic
intense because of the big screenshots, please give it time
to load :)
Fire
up your PSP, this tutorial can be done in all versions of
PSP.
Remember to save often !
Open a new image 89 x 172. Set your paintbrush to : Shape
= square, Size = 1, Hardness-Opacity-Density = 100, Step =25.
Important uncheck your anti-alias !!
Let's start with the base outline set your foreground color
to #573824 (darkbrown) and your background colore to #F6E3A4
(lightbrown).
Save your work !
Select the inside of your base and floodfill it with #F6E3A4.
Invert your selection and apply a drop shadow settings :
#CB5F4C (shadow color)
Offset : Vertical = 4 - Horizontal = 2
Opacity = 65 and Blur = 7 - Deselect.
Now for the mailbox. Set your foreground color to #000000
and your background color to #77343A. I've used this color
for the snow outline : #9E9E9F.
Once you finished the outline of the mailbox.
Select the inside of your mailbox and floodfill it with #F1FBFD.
Invert your selection and apply a dropshadow.
#43505B (shadow color)
Offset : Vertical = -10 - Horizontal = -3
Opacity = 65 and Blur = 15 - Deselect.
Select the sides of the lid and floodfill it
with #F1FBFD, invert your selection and apply a dropshadow.
#43505B (shadow color)
Offset : Vertical = 2 - Horizontal = 2
Opacity = 65 and Blur = 5 - Deselect.
Select the inside of your lid and floodfill
it with #F1FBFD, invert your selection and apply a dropshadow.
#43505B (shadow color)
Offset : Vertical = -1 - Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 65 and Blur = 7 - Deselect.
Select the inner outside of your mailbox and
floodfill it with #F1FBFD, invert your selection and apply
a dropshadow.
#43505B (shadow color)
Offset : Vertical = -1 - Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 65 and Blur = 7 - Deselect.
Select the inside of your handle and floodfill
it with #E66F68, invert your selection and apply a dropshadow.
#6F0705 (shadow color)
Offset : Vertical = -1 - Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 65 and Blur = 5 - Deselect.
Select the inside of your snow and floodfill
it with #FFFFFF, invert your selection and apply a dropshadow.
#9E9E9F (shadow color)
Offset : Vertical = -1 - Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 40 and Blur = 5 - Deselect.
Save your work !
We are going to add the holy now. I would advice
to add a new raster layer here, if you mess up somewhere you
only have to restart on this layer ;)
Colors you'll need : #384B45 (dark green) outside
outline and #98C58F (light green) inside holy leaves.
#4A1A30 (dark red) outside holy berries and #A92733 (bright
red) for the inside of the berries.
Save your work !
Save your work !
Now select the inside of the holy leaves and
floodfill it with #98C58F, invert your selection and apply
a dropshadow.
#384B45 (shadow color)
Offset : Vertical = -1 - Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 40 or 50 and Blur = 4 - Deselect.
Position your holy onto your base and merge
all layers visible.
I hope you enjoyed doing this tutorial :)
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