| 1. Open new image 300 X 300 transparent. Turn your ruler on. |
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| 2. Add a new vector layer. Your foreground color is null and the background color is white. Select your preset shape rectangle with antialias and vector checked. Draw a rectangle from 50 X 50 to
80 X 260. Click on the object selector, node edit, and add a node at the top of the rectangle by holding down the control button and clicking where the node is to go. Grab the center node and pull it
up to form a picket. Convert to raster layer. |
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| 3. On the layer palette right click on the picket layer and duplicate it 3 times and move them into position. Here's an easy way to get them lined up evenly...Go to view grid and select snap to
grid Double click on the ruler at the side of your graphic to bring up grid and guide properties. Change the vertical and horizontal spacing to 10 and snap to bottom. Then it's so easy to form a
straight line with the pickets. Turn off layer one and merge visible. Apply a drop shadow with the settings vertical 0 horizontal 1, offset 40, blur 3, and color black. Save. |
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| 4. Add a new layer named hearts. With your background color still white, select the heart 1 preset with antialias checked and vector unchecked and draw a heart at the top of one of the pickets.
Using the selection tool draw a rectangle around the heart and click on it to select. Change the background to the color you want the hearts to be. I used pink #F4B8BF. Select the airbrush tool with
the settings size 25, hardness 39, opacity 54, step 22, density 30. Spray your heart so it looks like the paint was sponged on. Deselect. Copy and paste as a new selection to each of the other
pickets. |
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| 5. Add a new layer under the pickets named back. With the foreground null and background white select the rectangle preset with antialias checked and vector unchecked draw a rectangle from 50 X
226 to 190 by 244. Copy and paste as a new selection a little ways below the hearts. |
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| 6. Add a new vector layer at the top and name it shelf. Change the background color to the pink #F4B8BF. Select the rectangle preset with both antialias and vector checked and draw a rectangle
from 50 X 190 to 194 X 211. Hold down control on your keyboard and drag one of the top corner nodes in towards the center, about half way across the end pickets. It will probably need a little
adjusting so grab the top center node and drag it down a little...feel free to play around a little until this looks like a shelf. Convert to raster layer. |
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| 7. Add a new raster layer. Change the background to a darker pink #EF97A3 and with the rectangle preset, antialias checked and vector unchecked draw a thin rectangle in front of the shelf edge to
finish the shelf off. Save |
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| 8. Add a new vector layer and name it knobs. Change the background color back to the light pink #F4B8BF. Select the preset sphere with vector and retain style checked. Hold down the shift key and
draw a know at the bottom middle of one of the pickets over the section where your back piece is. Your knob is a bright red but we'll change it to your shelf color. Click on the + sign by your knob
layer . Click on the + sign by the sphere layer that dropped down. Double click on the circle layer to bring up the vector properties box. Right click on the fill box and change the color to your
pink color. You now have a nice pink knob. Convert the layer to a raster layer. Copy the knob and paste as new selection on the other pickets. |
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