Real World Example - Rainbow Facade Creation
The question is "Can we create the image found on
Real World Example - Rainbow Facade Creation" in
Paint Shop Pro 5. The answer is yes.
Duplicate the rwe_palet.gif to the left by right clicking on
the image and selecting "save as" from the drop down
menu.
Open the image in PSP 5 and change it to 16M colors.
Select Colors | Negative Image from the
Menu Bar.
With the
Magic Wand,
select the white area. (example images
were reduced in size to save loading time).
Now open your
Layers
Control Box and add a layer.
Name this layer Rainbow, the previous layer is the background.
Your selection from the background should still be showing, so
go to
Mask
| New Mask | Show Selection on the Menu
Bar. To see your mask select Mask | View Mask on the
Menu Bar. (example 2)
On the
Color Palette,
change the foreground color to white and the
background color to black.
Select the
Gradient Fill
tool. In the Control Box change the
settings for the Gradient Fill to:
- Fill Style: Linear Gradient
- Options: 40 degrees
- Blend Mode: Normal
- Tolerance: 20
- Opacity: 100
Working on the Rainbow layer, pour the gradient into the selected area.
On the menu bar select Colors | Posterize setting the
Bits Per Channel to 4. This will give you the lined
effect you see in example 2.
It's time to start adding the rainbow colors.
On the Color Palette change the foreground color to
red and the background color to pink.
Deselect the image selection by pressing Ctrl + D on your
keyboard. Select the Magic Wand Tool, Tolerance set to 15
and click on the light grey area. If the bottom 3 grey 'lines'
aren't selected, press your Shift key and continue selecting
until the 3 lightest grey areas are selected. Now select
the Fill Tool, (which should still have the correct settings
from when you added the grey gradient fill), and pour the
red/pink combination into the area.
Continue this process alternating colors, always keeping
the last color from the combination before and adding one
color for the next combination. For example, the first
area was red/pink so the second area will be pink/blue, the
third blue/turquoise etc. finishing with yellow/red.
Deselect the selection by pressing Ctrl + D on your keyboard,
and immediately re-select by clicking outside the rainbow
pattern with the magic wand. Invert the selection and add
a Gaussian Blur of 8. Gaussian Blur is found under
Images | Blur | Gaussian Blur on the Menu Bar.
To add the highlight and shadows, we'll need to add
another layer. In the Layers Control dialog box click
on the New Layer button. Name this layer Highlight.
First we'll add the white cutout by going to
Image | Effect | Cutout on the Menu Bar. Settings
are important in this step. Make sure the Fill interior
with color box is unchecked and the shadow color
is set to white. Opacity is set to 100 while Blur is set
to 7. The Vertical and Horizontal should both be set to -3,
(minus 3).
The black shadow is added the same way. Start with yet
another layer, naming this one Shadow.
In the Cutout dialog box the only settings that change are
the Shadow color, which gets changed to black and the
Vertical and Horizontal should be changed to 3, (plus 3).
Now, just a little touch up and we're done. Invert your
selection by pressing Ctrl + Shift + I on your keyboard
or by selecting Selections | Invert from the Menu Bar.
On the Color Palette change the foreground color
to black. Select the Paintbrush Tool and with a fairly
large brush size, say 23, run the black paint along the upper
edges of your rainbow image. This removes a small residue
left over from the shadowing process.
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