Description:  Page II of learning how to create a Kewl pumpkin coach for Halloween.

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DOOR

1. Select your coach doorway oval and Duplicate it. Flip it 90 degrees to the left or right.
Rclick, Convert, Reset Text Path Object.
Object, Wrap, Bend, Set the Amount to 40, and Apply.

2. Flip this piece 90 to the left and Resize to 157 x 395 px.
Rclick, Center, Vertically.
Move it over so the edge of the door is over the edge of the doorway and the two 3D pieces you created like so.

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3. Color your door a little darker orange. I used #FF9650. Change the Border to a redish #FF4000.

4. Magic wand, Click the + sign and Select the inside of the door. Rclick, Border, 12 px, Inward, Circle, Apply.
Edit, Trace Edges, Selection Marquee, change the Horizontal Deform to 2D Object.
Resize this piece to 149 x 392 px and center it on the door a bit to the right. See below. Color this piece inside with #FF5E28.
Add a Shadow, centered, 50-97-10. Split the Shadow.

5. Rectangular Selection tool, make a selection right here on your door like this.

6. Make sure the 2d darker ring is selected and click Copy, Paste as Object.
Rclick, Select None.
Edit, Trace, you know the drill.
Resize this piece 34 x 359 px or there abouts. Delete the one you used as a pattern.
Move the new one inward a bit (toward the coach), and Edit this piece so the two ends come to a point, it's a little narrower, and it fits right along the curve of the orange 2D jam around the door.
Resize the length a pixel or two so that the points are like this

 

7. Add a shadow, centered, 50-100-10. Split it, and move it down below the 2D oval that goes around the door like so.

8. Create a 2D Rectangle, Color Orange #FF9650, that reaches from one side of the door to the other inside the dimensions like so. About 105 x 20 approxamately.
Convert from Path to Image.
Burn (40-100-soft edge 20), the top & bottom side lightly using the very edge of the brush to make it look rounded a bit.
Add a Shadow, centered, 50-100-10.

9. Move this piece down below the shadows for both the 2D oval around the door and the 3D side piece's shadow as per the look above. Split Shadow again.

10. Turn off your shadows for the 3 items above. Use the Magic Wand and select the inside of the bottom of the door. Expand by 2 pixels.
Edit, Trace, do that thing and apply. Change the Horizontal Deform to 2D.
Use the Bucket fill, Image tab to fill this selection with the Red or Orange crushed velvet.
Move this piece down under all the parts to right above the door shape and turn on the view for all the shadows. You should have this now.

CURTAINS

1. Turn off the view for the 3 shadows again.
Path tool, Oval Shape, 2D any color, create an oval 40 x 120 px.
Resize, Rotate this a bit to line up with the right side of the door like so.

2. Duplicate this piece, Rotate it a bit more to the right, and move to the left side of the door. Adjust both pieces so they leave no piece of the door beneath showing.

3. Create a small oval for a knot, move it to the right side. Rotate to the left just a bit.
Duplicate it, Flip Horizontally, and move it to the left side. Rotate this one a bit more to the right.

4. Path, Spline or rectangle shape, 2D same color as above. Draw a curtain bottom or make a rectangle 35 x 70 (approxamately - use your judgement on yours) and Destort the left side of it by bringing the left corner toward the right one at the top like so below

5. Line it up with the knot on the right side of the door. It should be on the half mark of the knot and the half mark of the door support bar.

6. Duplicate this piece, Flip Horizontally, Rotate a bit to the right, and move to the left side. You are going to have to do a bit more distoring to bring the left top up to be centered in the knot oval, and the bottom right up so it's straight at the bottom. This is how it needs to look when you are done with creating them.

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7. Select these two pieces of your curtain and Drag and drop under the two knots in your Layer Manager.
Select all 6 pieces of your curtains and move them under the door jam oval like so to hide the edges of your curatins.

8. Standard Selection tool, Rectangle, make one that fits over the bare area the curtain doesn't cover.

Select the door itself, and Convert from path to image.
Hit your Delete key once. Keep the selection.
Edit, Trace, make the new path piece.
In your EP find the Glass samples, and make that piece look like glass using one of the presets. Your color your choice. I used G27 on this one. Make sure there is not a border on this piece. LOL

9. Open the Material box, check the smooth spine, and I lower the depth on the glass on mine to 30 & 10, Apply. Set up your window so you like your glass transparency - your choices.
Move this piece down in your Layer manager next to the door oval.

10. Select your bottom curtain piece, use the bucket fill, Image to add crushed velvet (the same color as your door - or your choice to color them your way) to your 6 curatin pieces. If these pieces have borders take them off now that you are adding the velvet. You no longer need them as size guides.

11. Add shadows to all your curtain pieces. I used center, 30-100-5. for mine.

12. Line & Arrow tool, Spline, 1px line, med to dark brown or what ever color matches the color you used. Make lines down through the curtains to simulate folds and creases like so.
Select all your lines and move them down under your two curtain knots. but on top of the top and bottom panels of your curtains. Move your two knots to the top of the curtains if they are not there already.
(If you have a line on the right top panel that extends to the left top curtain you will have to arrange your layers so that this is under the left panel, but on top of the right one.)
Add shadows to all your lines. I used 50-100-5 on mine.
Turn all your shadows back on.

 

13. Move the shadow for the 3D jam side piece (blue arrow above) to the left a bit. It makes the door seem like it has a bit more depth to this side. Compare pictures above to see what I mean.

14. Select all the parts to your door and group. Save.

15. Select your coach inside oval that your seats are 'sitting' on and add the Crushed velvet from the fill command to this piece also.

16. Duplicate this piece. Click on the Path tool and remove the 2 Pixel Border.
Use the Bucket fill, Color tab to fill this with black. Move it down above of the inside oval.
Turn on the Fade out Effect (Edit, Fade Out) and set it for diagonal.
On the Two Color section below this click on the middle piece between them and flip the colors so black is on the right side.
Change the first color to 30 and the black or right side is 0.

17. Select all parts and Group. Save.

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