Dresser Box

Tutorial for Paint Shop Pro 7

This is what the Tutorial will make.
From a tuna can to a dresser box

Scroll to the bottom to see what else can be done with it.

You will need these Tubes to help with this Tutorial. Get them here.
You will find 3 pieces in it, export them into your PSP7 tubes directory

These are the settings that we will use .. Foreground and Background set to WHITE "FFFFFF" If you know the styles pallet then you may begin, if not then please read this so you do not get lost later:)

Click on the first style button ARROW under the color pallet, you will see this .. make sure paint brush is active if not then click it. Then touch the color itself .. in this picture it is white, that is where you will click. It will open a large paint pallet and color wheel. Because I used normal white you can just click the white button on the pallet .. .. if you find a tutorial that uses Webcolors to tell you what color, like white is FFFFFF, you would put those numbers here .. ..to get the color that they want you to use. Go Ahead and set your first styles button to PAINT BRUSH/WHITE. Set the 2nd one the same way .. PAINT BRUSH/WHITE.

Now open the third styles button (click on the arrow) you will see this .. .. (yours may have a different first picture) Click the button on the right (null) it will turn that style off. Now click on the arrow of the fourth button. Choose the button on the left (texture) .. Now click on the texture, just like you clicked on the color of the first and second button. You will see a window that looks like this but bigger, click on the button that I have circled .. .. That will open another little window, we will use the texture called TWIGS2 for this tutorial, so please choose that one now. Please click the LOCKED box under the fourth style button.

1. Open new image 400/400 .. 16 million colors and transparent background

2. Use your Tube tool and find the tube named "sw_bckcan" Leave it at 100%

3. Place this in the middle of your new image window

4. Add new layer .. use the tube named "sw_frntcan" and place this in the middle of the window also. Use your mover tool until your tubes look like this. Your picture will look like this but a little bigger.

5. Make sure the front of your can is the active layer.

6. Add new layer ..

7. Use the Tube tool and choose the tube named "sw_lyrcan" 100%

8. Place this over the top of the front of your can, you will be covering the part where a label would normally be. It will look like this .. not much difference but it counts.

**You should have three layers in your layer pallet .. the Back of the can, the front of the can, and the smaller layer over the front of the can.

9. Make the back of the can the active layer. Use your selection tool, set to rectangle, to select the entire can .. without touching anything else touch the back of the can only, this will put the "marching ants" all around what is the back of the can.

10. Add new layer .. fill the new layer with white (make sure your 3rd styles button is turned off or null/no texture). Deselect put the white layer on the bottom (you won't be able to see it)

11. Make layer 1 (back of can) active again.

12. Go to EFFECTS, Texture, sculpture .. you may use these settings or any that you want to use.

13. Open your layer pallet and highlight your GOLD layer (the back of the can) move the slider on the right until it is a lighter color .. mine is set at 61. Please set yours to where you like it.

14. Turn off layers 2 and 3 and then go to layers, merge, merge visible (make sure either layer 1 or 4 is highlighted)

15. Turn layers 2 and 3 back on.

16, Make layer 2 your active layer (can front, not the layer on top of it)

17. Go to EFFECTS, Textures, sculpture and use the same settings that you used before.

18. Now that you can see your top layer a little better you can line it up so it matches the label area of the can.

19. Make the top layer active (3) .. draw a rectangle around it with your selection tool, then touch the layer so you have marching ants around it.

20. Flood fill with white.

21. Add new layer .. With your second styles button set to paintbrush/white and your fourth button set to texture/TWIGS2 .. right click to fill the new layer. You really won't see anything until the next step.

22. Go to effects/texture/sculpture and use the same settings as before. Now you have this.

23. Deselect.

24. Turn off the layer that says merged (back of your can) Make sure that one of your top layers is active and then merge visible.

25. Turn on your layer that you have turned off. Now you have this.

** If you are going to fill your Dresser box then you can leave the two layers as they are, if you are not going to fill it then merge visible.

Lid

In this tutorial we can't use the preshapes and fill the middle because the color will not be the same as the outside of your box.

26. Add new layer

27. With your selection tool set at Ellipse, feather 0, antialias checked. Draw what will be your lid. Do this on top of the box that you have made so you have the right size, it can be a little bigger or smaller. Flood fill with white PAINT

28. Go to Selections, modify, contract 5 .. OK

29. Hit delete on your keyboard so you take out the center of your lid.

30. Deselect. Now take your magic wand tolerance set to 0 and touch the white outline that is left.

31. Go to Effects, texture, sculpture and use these settings (or what ever you like to match what you did with yours) You want it just a little darker than the bottom of the box.

32. Now use your wand and touch the center of the lid (where you cut it out earlier. Add new layer, go to selections, modify, expand 2 .. OK

33. Now flood fill with your texture (RIGHT click .. with WHITE/PAINTBRUSH as your second style button and TWIGS2 as your texture for the fourth style button)

34. Go to Effects, texture, sculpture and use these settings. It will look a little dark but after move it off the box it will be fine. When done then deselect.

35. Open your layer pallet and turn off the box (You may have two to turn off if you did not merge them together)

36. With one of the lid layers highlighted go to layers, merge, merge visible .. turn your others layers back on.

*now you have this.

37. With the lid highlighted in the layers window choose your deform tool. Lift the lid off the box and use the turn tool (circled in red on the example) Turn the lid so that it looks like it is leaning against the box.