There was an Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe

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For this tutorial you will need - PSP 7
and my selections - available here
and this tile, right click and save as

I've been wanting to try this for some time and the latest Prestigious Tutorial Special gave me the chance to try.

 

Remember to save you work often. I am not in the habit of giving this reminder in my tutorials, this is something you should do automatically :o) Say's she who is always getting caught by a dreaded PSP freeze.

OK, lets crack on.

Open the tile.jpg to use later on as a pattern fill. Not too sure on how to do this? Click here

1. Open a new image, I used 500x640,  with a transparent background.  Create a new raster layer, naming it roof1. Selections/Load from disc, open roof1.sel. Flood fill with a light grey, I used #COCOCO. Selections/Invert. Effects/3D effects/Drop shadow at the settings shown. Ctrl+D (Selections/Select none).

 

Drop Shadow Setting
Vertical - -10
Horizontal - 2
Opacity - 73
Blur - 13.6
Colour - Black

2. Create a new raster layer naming it shoe. Selections/Load from disc, open shoe.sel. Flood fill with brown, I used #623812. 

3. Create a new layer naming it door back. Selections/Load from disc, open door back.sel. Fllod fill with black.

4. Create a new raster layer naming it door. Selections/Load from disc, open door.sel. Flood fill #800000 or a colour of your choice, (the colour of the drop shadow needs to be a darker shade of the one used to fill the door). Selections/Invert. Apply the same drop shadow changing the vertical to 20 and the horizontal to -20. Ctrl+D.

5. Create a new raster layer naming it doorframe. Selections/Load from disc, open door frame.sel. Flood fill with grey, I used #COCOCO. Ctrl+D. Effects/3D effects/Inner bevel at the following settings.

 
6. Create a new raster layer naming it front panel. Selections/Load from disc, open front panel.sel. Flood fill with white. Effects/Texture effects/Blinds at the settings shown. Selections/Invert. Effects/3D Effects/Drop shadow at the settings shown. Ctrl+D.

 

 

Drop Shadow Setting
Vertical - 5
Horizontal - 5
Opacity - 88
Blur - 35.8
Colour - black
7. Create a new raster layer naming it side panel. Selections/Load from disc, open side panel.sel. Flood fill with white. Effects/Texture effects/Blinds, same settings. Selections/Invert. Effects/3D Effects/Drop shadow, change the horizontal to -5, opacity to 69 & blur to 25.9. Ctrl+D.

 

Blinds Setting
Width - 15
Opacity - 10
Colour - Black
Uncheck Horizontal
Check light from left top
8. Create a new layer naming it window3. Selections/Load from disc, open window3.sel. Flood fill with black. Ctrl+D. 

Create a new layer naming it window1. Selections/Load from disc, open window1.sel. Flood fill with white. Ctrl+D. Apply the same inner bevel as for step 4. 

Create a new layer naming it window2. Selections/Load from disc, open window2.sel. Flood fill with white, Ctrl+D and repeat the inner bevel.

 
9. Make window3 layer active. Change the foreground colour to grey, I used #514B4B. With the paintbrush tool , at the settings shown, dab a touch of paint in each corner of the window panes. 

Paintbrush Setting
Shape - Round
Size - 16
Hardness - 13
Opacity - 100
Step - 25
Density - 100
10. Create a new layer naming it roof2. Selections/Load from disc, open roof2.sel. Flood fill with the tile.jpg, angle 0, scale 50. Selections/Invert. Effects/3D effects/Drop shadow at the setting given. Ctrl+D.

11. Create a new layer naming it roof edge. Selections/Load from disc, open roof edge.sel. Flood fill with #623812. Ctrl+D. Apply the same inner bevel but change the angle to 0.

 

Drop Shadow Settings
Vertical - -5
Horizontal - -4
Opacity - 100
Blur - 34.6
Colour - Black

12. Create a new layer naming it shoe edge. Selections/Load from disc, open shoe edge.sel. Flood fill with #704620. Ctrl+D.

 
13. Create a new layer naming it eyelet. Selections/Load from disc, open eyelets.sel. Flood fill with #COCOCO. Ctrl+D. Apply the same inner bevel. Effects/3D Effects/Drop shadow at the settings shown. Repeat the drop shadow changing the horizontal & vertical to -1 and the colour to #AD7F57.

 

Drop Shadow Settings
Vertical - 1
Horizontal - 1
Opacity - 100
Blur - 2.5
Colour - Black

We are now going to give our shoe house some shading by using the paint tool and then applying a gaussian blur.

 
14. Make the shoe layer active. Create a new layer naming it shading1. With the paintbrush tool, change the hardness to 50, foreground #543010, if you have used a different colour for your shoe this will be 8 less than the number in the light column in your colour palette , paint some shape to the shoe as shown. Bring the lightness of your colour down by 5, #4B2B0F, and paint over as shown, staying on the same layer. Bring the colour down by another 5, #42260E. Using this same shade paint some detail on the tongue of the boot and around the eyelets. I have intentionally gone well over the edge of the boot to make sure when the blur is applied it covers all the boot. Effects/Blur/Gaussian blur with a radius of 8.  Selections/Load from disc, open shoe.sel. Selections/Invert, delete. This will do away with the edges. Ctrl+D.

 


15. Make a new layer naming it shading2. Change the foreground colour to #703F14, this is an increase of 12 to the light in the colour palette. Paint a highlight on the top of the toe. Change the colour to #834B19, this is an increase of 12, add more to the highlight. Effects/Blur/Gaussian blur with a radius of 8.  Selections/Load from disc, open shoe.sel. Selections/Invert, delete. Ctrl+D.

 

16. By clicking the glasses in the layer palette make it so that the shoe, shading1 & shading2 layers are the only one's visible. Marge layers visible. On the merged layer lock the transparency. Effects/3D effects/Cut out at the shown setting. Unlock the transparency. Effects/Noise/Add 5% uniform. Bring all layers in to view.

 

Cut Out Setting
Vertical - -15
Horizontal - 10
Opacity - 100
Blur - 100
Colour - Black
17. Make the door back layer active. Selections/Load from disc, open the door back.sel. Change the foreground colour to #1F1F1F, paint in some highlight to the doorway. While still selected apply the same gaussian blur. Add noise at the same setting, repeat the noise on the door layer. Ctrl+D.

There you have your shoe, now we'll go on to do the old lady

 

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