Country Shelf

In this tutorial you can make my country shelf.

You will need JASC's Paint Shop Pro.  Get a trial copy here.

My selections.  Download a zip file here, and unzip it where ever you keep your selections. 

My wood fills.  Download a zip file here, open the tiles and minimize them on your desktop. The striped tile is made by me and the light wood grain is used with the permission of  Absolute Background Texture Archive .  Be sure and check out their site for thousands of backgrounds and textures.

Remember to save often.

 Open a new image 410 X270 transparent.  Add a new raster layer and name it back.  Go to selections, load from disk and click on the selection cm1.  On you color palette, set the foreground to pattern back, scale 100 and angle 0. Flood fill your selection.  Deselect and save.

Add a new raster layer.  Load the selection cm2.  Change the foreground pattern to your  wood fill, scale 75 and angle 90.  Flood fill the selection. Save.

Add a new raster layer. Load the selection cm3.  Flood fill with your wood fill only change the angle to 0 flood fill your selection. Keep selected and add a new raster layer. Apply a drop shadow with the settings of   0 and horizontal 2, opacity 80 and blur 6.  The color is #54473A. The same color is used for all drop shadows. Deselect.  Choose your eraser tool and erase the drop shadow that extends below the striped back fill.   Save.

Add a new raster layer. Load the selection cm4.  Flood fill your selection with the wood, same settings. Keep selected and add a new raster layer.  Apply a drop shadow with the same settings as in the last layer only change the horizontal to -2.  Deselect.  Choose your eraser tool and erase the drop shadow that extends below the striped back fill.   Save.

Add a new raster layer. Load the selection cm5. Flood fill using the same wood only change the scale to 50. Apply a drop shadow with the settings of vertical 0 and horizontal 1, opacity 80 and blur 2.   Deselect and save.

Add a new raster layer. Load the selection cm6. Flood fill using the same wood and settings as before. Apply a drop shadow with the settings of vertical 0 and horizontal -1, opacity 80 and blur 2.   Deselect and save.

Add a new raster layer. Load the selection cm7. Flood fill using the same wood and change the angle back to 90. Float your selection and apply a cutout with the settings of vertical -1 and horizontal 0, opacity 80 and blur 3, and color#54473A .  Deselect and save.

Add a new raster layer. Load the selection cm8. Flood fill with the wood using the same settings. Float the selection.  Apply a cutout with the settings of vertical -1 and horizontal 0, opacity 80, blur 1 and the same color is used for all cutouts.  Deselect and save.

Add a new raster layer. Load the selection cm9. Flood fill using the same wood and settings. Deselect.  Apply a drop shadow with the settings of vertical 1 and horizontal 0, opacity 80 and blur 2.  Deselect and save.

Add a new raster layer. Load the selection cm10. Flood fill using the same wood and settings. Float the selection.  Apply a cutout with the settings of vertical -1 and horizontal 0, opacity 80 and blur 4.  Deselect and save.

Add a new raster layer. Load the selection cm11. Flood fill using the same wood and settings. Float your selection and apply a cutout with the settings of vertical -3, horizontal 0, opacity 50, blur 6.  Deselect and save.

Add a new raster layer.  Load the selection cm12.  Flood fill with the wood fill same settings. Float the selection and apply a cutout with the settings vertical -1, horizontal 0, opacity 50, blur 2,  Deselect.  Save.

Add a new vector layer named knobs,  and select the preset shape sphere with the settings, retain style and vector both checked.

Hold down the shift key and draw a circle for the knob. Click on the plus sign by the knob layer and then click on the plus sign by sphere.

 There are a bunch of layers that drop down.  Double click on the layer named circle and where it says fill, change the fill to pattern and change it to the JASC pine pattern. 

Convert the layer to raster and then copy and paste the knob as a new selection 2 times so you have 3 pegs on your shelf.  Save.

Hide the knob layer by clicking on the glasses on the layer palette.  Merge visible the remaining layers, then click on the glasses to make the knob layer visible again.  If you keep this in 2 layers you are able to save the shelf as a PSP file and hang goodies from the knobs.

If you have any problems or questions feel free to e-mail me and I'll get back to you.  I hope you enjoyed my tutorial :-)

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