Creative Discovery in PaintShop Pro Lesson 48

Creative Discovery in PaintShop Pro
Lesson 48

First - Wait for the Video player to load
Then - You need to watch the video before doing lesson below - it has a lot more important information and explanations for you
You may do the lesson as you watch the video though
Also - Click the full screen button on the player to watch it full screen or you may not see all of the settings properly

You will need this zip file of Bump Maps Lesson 48 Bump Maps Zip File
You will also need this zip file of Environment Maps Lesson 48 Environment Maps Zip File

Unzip the supplies and place them into the appropriate folders.
If you haven't already created folders called Bump Maps & Environment Maps, do so now and place the unzipped files into the correct folders.
Bump maps are black/grey/white and Environment maps are coloured or images.
You can place anything into these folders that you wish, but do make sure that you have PSP directed to find them - Check Lesson 9 if you need a refresher on this.

1. PREPARATION

Open a New Raster Image - 400 x 400 Pixels and transparent
In the Background box of the Materials palette, place the colour #5473b4 - a blue
Go to Effects > Artistic Effects > Balls & Bubbles.

Make sure there is a Tick in Preview on Image box - Top Right corner
Also click on Preview to Open both the before and After Preview Windows
Click on the Reset to Default and you should have a Transparent ball with a bright light in the After Window, also a Bounding box in the Before Window.

There are 4 tabs - Shape, Surface, Maps, Illumination - and we will cover each of these idividually.

2. SHAPE

In the Shape Tab you can choose
~ Automatic multiple balls or bubble
~ Single ball or bubble - default setting

When you have a Single ball or bubble, you have the bounding box in the Before Window and you can shift this or drag it out to any size.
If you Tick the Maximum possible size box, then the ball/bubble will fill the entire window.

In the Automatic multiple balls or bubbles section, you can select how much coverage for your image, how large they are and how much variation in size.
You can also select whether the balls intersect each other or not or whether they just overlap each other.

3. SURFACE

In this Tab, you can choose the Material you use, whether it a plain colour or a gradient or pattern.
By default, it selects what is in your background box of the materials palette.
You can also select the Opacity, Shininess and Gloss of your ball/bubble.

4. MAPS

Maps is where you can add texture and images to your ball.
The Bump Map will add texture and this is a black/grey/white image.
The Environment Map will add an image and this will be coloured.

In the Bump map section, you can change the smoothness, depth and size of the texture.
The Depth can be a negative number which will reverse the contours so will be like mountains or valleys.
Positive numbers give a "mountain" effect and negative numbers will give a "valley" effect.

The Size is only available to you if you have the Fit bump map box UNTICKED.
In the Environment map section, you can select the Opacity level you wish.

Then you have 3 radio buttons to pick from
~ Environment map, which you can select the coloured image to place on your ball
~ Current Image, which uses what we placed into the material box in the Surface Tab
~ Diffraction map, which gives out a rainbow light effect - you can change the size using the Fringe Spacing and Type Selections.

5. ILLUMINATION

In this tab, you set the lights.
You can add or remove lights in this area and select the colour and size of these also.
Removing all lights will give you a flat 2D circle of colour.
If you want a lot of light, then have both the maximum and minimum set at higher numbers.
The Back light box will give the effect of the light coming from behind the ball.

6. EXERCISE 1

Single ball or bubble selected

Material = Blue from Background Box
Opacity = 100
Shininess = 17
Gloss = 0

Bump Map = ads_texture_wood_boards
Smoothness = 0
Depth = 86
Size = 39
Untick Environment map

Maximum = 80
Minimum = 0
Have only 1 light
Position = Centre
Back light = Unticked
Colour = White
Highlight size = 13

Click OK

Vertical = 20
Horizontal = 20
Opacity = 20
Blur = 20
Colour = Black
Shadow on New Layer = Unticked

Click OK

Crop your image to just select the ball and drop shadow
Merge all
Save as - YourName-Lesson48a

7. EXERCISE 2

Open a New Raster Image - 400 x 400 Pixels and transparent
Go to Effects > Artistic Effects > Balls & Bubbles.

Single ball or bubble selected

Material = #d58d21 - a golden yellow
Opacity = 85
Shininess = 50
Gloss = 15

Bump Map = Gold Filigree
Smoothness = 25
Depth = -100/li>
Size = 174
Untick Environment map

Leave all setting as for Exercise 1

Click OK

Apply the same Drop shadow as you did in exercise 1
Crop your image to just select the ball and drop shadow
Merge all
Save as - YourName-Lesson48b