Check out my new PI SCRAPBOOK COURSE

Software: Ulead PhotoImpact 10
Author: Claudia Conover A.K.A. Dia (Deeya)
Homepage: Dia's Dimensions
Terms Of Use: Please Read

Title:  PUMPKIN HOUSE & Extras

Skill Level:  Intermediate

Featured Tools:
Path Tool - Transform Tools
Line Tool - Path Edit
Selection Tools - Eraser Tool

Additional Files Needed:
My pumpkin house & extras presets
Ufo extras

Description:  Create a Kewl Pumpkin House for fall or Halloween.

---

Download my pumpkin house presets to your main Presets folder. Install to your Easy Pallet.

Images have been reduced for faster loading pages.

House front

1. New Image, white, set up like below.

2. Create a 3D oval 370x335 px. Open your EP (Easy Pallet) and double click on the "pumpkin house orange" preset to apply.
Center both ways. Duplicate.
Apply the "pumpkin gel orange preset to your top oval. Save As a ufo file.

Pumpkin Sections

1. Change to the Line & Arrow tool straight line.
Draw a 2D straight line starting above your oval to below your oval 1 px wide any color except white.
Center both ways. This as your "center guide" for working by 'eye'. Deselect.

2. Change to the spline line setting and draw a curved line from the top center curving to the left and ending at the center bottom of your pumpkin. Change it to 3D and color #FF8040.
Edit it for a nice smooth curve.
Open the material box above and make these changes shown below.

You should now have this or something nearly so.

3. Duplicate this line and flip it horizontally. Move it to the right side up against your center guide line like so.

4. Create another line on your left about half way over to the edge of your pumpkin in this same manner. Edit it to make it smooth and curved nicely.
Duplicate, and move to the right side up against the center line.
Turn your pumpkin objects off if you need to for good placement.

5. Repeat this process one last time. You should now have something similar to this below.
Turn off the orange object to check out your lines. Make sure they come together smoothly inside the pumpkin area. Turn your pumpkin object view back on to be sure.

Select all your pumpkin seam lines and R-click group. Make sure you don't group the center guide line.

6. Select the top pumpkin object and convert from path to image.

7. Change to the Burn tool, 40-50-100.
With the orange object selected run your Burn brush down one line at a time. Keep the line in the center of the brush as much as possible. If you mess up and go crooked hit the Undo button and try again. It may take a bit of practice to burn them fairly centered all the way down the line.
Burn each line twice!
Now you will have something like this below.

8. Go to Effect, Blur, Gaussian Blur and click on the Options button. Use the default setting of 5 and Apply.

9. Select your grouped lines, Rclick, Merge as Single Object.
Add this shadow setting.

10. R-click, Split the shadow, and hide all objects except for your top orange object.

11. Select the Magic Wand tool, and click on the background layer surrounding your object. Your object should now have a marching ants line around it.
R-click, Expand/Shrink, set it to Expand 1 pixel, and check the circle setting below. Keep original soft edge is selected also.You now have a nice tight selection up against your object.

12. Click on the Object paint Eraser tool, circle, 60-0-1, freehand line.
Select your Shadow object and run your brush over the entire edge of this selection line to remove the shadow from outside the pumpkin object like so.

R-click and choose None from the menu. Bring all objects back into view. Save this as a pumpkin template. You may need this later if you want to do the extras. :)
Resave the pumpkin with your original name you saved it with.

Windows

1. Path tool, Custom shape, Arch 2, 80x140, resize if you need to. Place on the left side of the pumpkin.
Apply my black preset that you imported. Duplicate, center them up with each other both ways if they aren't already.

2. In the Mode choice box above change the top window to Selection.
R-click, Shrink 6 px. Circle is checked.
R-click, Soften by 1 px.

3. In the Layer Manager, R-click on the window that is showing and convert the path to an image. If you happen to left click and selected it R-click and deselect all.

4. Use your Right arrow key to move the selection 2 pixels to the Right and 1 px up like so.

5. Select your black window in the Layer Manager, and hit your delete key once.
Select your lines object and hit your delete key. Do not delete the shadow.
Select your top orange oval and hit your delete key.
R-click, choose Store to save your selection for the other side.
R-click choose None. You should now be able to see the bottom orange oval through your window and the shadow.

6. Change to the Eraser brush and select the shadow. Run the brush over the inside of the selection once to remove the shadow.

7. Duplicate your window, flip sideways, and move it to the right side.

8. Go to Selections from the Menu above and choose Load Selection.
When the window comes up click OK.
Move it over so that it is directly in the middle of your black window on the right side.
Repeat the process above for selecting your objects and deleting them like you did for the first window, and erase the shadow with the eraser brush. You should now have this.

9. Change to the Line tool. In the Panel and change the Border to 1, and the Depth to 30. Create a line that runs just the length of your window top to bottom, 132 px approximately, and another line from side to side, 60 px. R-click group, and Duplicate. Put them in their places over the windows evenly. Select them both (hold down the Control key to select more than one object) and drag them below the two windows. Save.

Continue to page 2.