Di's Delights Prestigious Members Pixel Boot House Tutorial

PSP8 Boot House Pixel Tut

This tutorial has been written using PSP8 but should work in PSP7. Please take the time to read my terms.

Rather than me giving screen shots showing how many pixels please drag this image to your work area to use as a template.

I am no means an expert when it comes to pixels, but I wanted to give them a go and have a play.
I will try to explain exactly how I shaded the image but we all have our own method
so my instructions are only a guidance. You may prefer to stay on the one layer, I prefer layers.

1. Image, increase colour depth to 16 million colours. Layers - Promote background to layer and rename base. With the magic wand , tolerance 0, feather 0, add, select the white areas of the image and delete so you only have the outlines. Ctrl+D. At this point you can carry on with the tut or you can go round the image with the paint brush , size 1, to give the image your own colours. For the tutorial I will give the colours I used, if you have changed yours you will need to use a lighter shade of those you have chosen for the base image.
2. With the magic wand, click inside area 1 in the screen shot. Create a new layer. Flood fill with #ADC5D7. Ctrl+D. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout at the setting given.				Cutout Setting Vertical & Horizontal 0 Opacity 100 Blur 4 Shadow colour #6B8DB5 Fill interior with #ADC5D7
3. Go back to the base layer. With the magic wand click inside area 2. Create a new layer. Flood fill with the same colour. Ctrl+D. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout, apply the same cutout increasing the blur to 10. 4. Go back to the base layer. With the magic wand click inside area 3. Create a new layer. Flood fill with the same colour. Ctrl+D. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout, apply the same cutout changing the blur to 4.
5. Go back to the base layer. With the magic wand, mode add, click inside areas 4. Create a new layer. Flood fill with #F6F1EA. Ctrl+D. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout at the setting given.				Cutout Setting Vertical & Horizontal 1 Opacity 100 Blur 2 Shadow colour #D5C0A0 Fill interior with #F6F1EA
6. Go back to the base layer. With the magic wand, mode add, click inside areas 5. Create a new layer. Flood fill with #F6F1EA. Ctrl+D. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout, apply the same cutout changing the horizontal to -1. 7. Go back to the base layer. With the magic wand, click inside areas 6. Create a new layer. Flood fill with #F6F1EA. Ctrl+D. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout, change the vertical to 3, horizontal to 1 and the blur to 20. Repeat for area 7.
8. Go back to the base layer. With the magic wand click inside the main boot area. Create a new layer. Flood fill with #956541. Ctrl+D. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout at the setting give				Cutout Setting Vertical & Horizontal 0 Opacity 100 Blur 60 Shadow colour #694629 Fill interior with #956541
9. Go back to the base layer. With the magic wand click inside the tongue of the boot. Create a new layer. Flood fill with the same colour. Ctrl+D. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout at the setting given.				Cutout Setting Vertical -4 Horizontal 3 Opacity 100 Blur 15 Shadow colour #4A311E Fill interior with #956541
10. Go back to the base layer. With the magic wand click inside one of the soles. Create a new layer. Flood fill with black. Repeat for the other sole.
11. Go back to the base layer. With the magic wand click inside the door frame. Create a new layer. Flood fill with #A67C4E. Ctrl+D. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout at the settings given. Repeat for the window frames and the cross of the window panes.				Cutout Setting Vertical & Horizontal 1 Opacity 100 Blur 3 Shadow colour #835F39 Fill interior with #A67C4E
12. Go back to the base layer. With the magic wand, mode add, click inside the door panels. Create a new layer. Flood fill with #A67C4E. Ctrl+D. Set the foreground colour to #A0774C. With the paint brush, size one, paint some lines down the panels. I zoomed in to 400% to see better. If you're like me and can't paint in a straight line, click to dab the first spot of paint then hold shift, move the curser to where you want to finish and click. Change the foreground colour to #9B7349, paint some more lines, some overlapping, some next to the lighter line. Change the colour to #956F47 and paint some more lines. In the layer palette, lock the transparency of the layer. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout. Vertical 2, Horizontal 3, Opacity 100, blur 20, same shadow colour, uncheck fill interior.
13. Create a new layer. Change the foreground to black. With the paintbrush, size 6, hardness 60, paint in a door knob. Change the foreground to #C0C0C0. With the paintbrush, size 3, hardness 0, dab a highlight on to the door knob.
14. Go back to the base layer. With the magic wand, mode add. click inside each of the window panes, working on one window. Create a new layer. Set the foreground to #979EDF, the background to #E9E9F1, Set the fill to foreground/background gradient, sunburst , repeats 0, vertical 23, horizontal 31. Fill the window panes. Selections - Invert. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow at the setting given. Ctrl+D.				Drop Shadow Setting Vertical & Horizontal 1 Opacity 100 Blur 6 Colour #1E3244
15. In the layer pallet click on the very top layer to make active. Create a new layer. Use the preset shape tool , ellipse, antialias checked, line width 2, foreground black, background nulled. Hold Shft and draw a small circle for an eyelet. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel at the given setting.
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow at the setting given. Duplicate the layer 3 times and move the eyelets as shown.				Drop Shadow Vertical 0 Horizontal 0 Opacity 100 Blur 5 Colour 0 Shadow on new layer unchecked
Merge layers visible and save in PSP format or as a tube.

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