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Software: Ulead PhotoImpact 10
Author: Claudia Conover A.K.A. Dia (Deeya)
Homepage: Dia's Dimensions
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Title:  PUMPKIN HOUSE EXTRAS

Skill Level:  Beginner to Intermediate

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

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

Description:  Create Kewl Pumpkin House items for your house.

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Download and install my pumpkin house presets to your main Presets folder found here.

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Curtains

1. Path tool, Spline, 3D Round, any color for now. Start at the bottom left half of your left window and weave your line up to the top center and smoothly down the outside of your window frame. Edit so that it covers the full left side and is only on the left half of the window like so.

2. Use my curtain preset, and Convert to an image.
With the Dodge brush make some places lighter than others like below.

3. Click on the Focus icon and click on the top Right selection to sharpen your curtain.

4. Duplicate, flip horizontally and align with the right side of the window.
Select both parts of your curtain, and Group.
Duplicate this pair and slide over to the other window and put in place.
Select both sets of grouped curtains, and drag down under your top orange object (or the front of your house) like so. Your curtains are finished.

Pumpkins

1. Open your pumpkin you saved as a template from page one of this tute.
If you don't have enough room at the top, click Shift + N to expand your canvas accordingly.
If you haven't done the pumpkin house tutorial follow the directions of that tute to make your pumpkin and other parts you lack to do this page of mini-tutes, then come back to this page and continue.

2. Click on your stem, and leaves from your pumpkin house. Hold down your Control key to select these parts. Click on Copy, Click on the title bar to your pumpkin template, and Paste to this image. Move into place at the top. You should now have a completed pumpkin. Save with a new name. Hide the background with the eye in the Layer manage and save as a psd as a tube.

3. Select all, merge as a single object, and Resize (lock locked) to 116x132 px.

Wooden Barrel

1. Path tool, 3D Round, Rectangle, any color, create one 70x235 px.
Click on my zebrawood preset to apply.
Click on the Paint brush, black, 10-0-50 and POE (Effect, paint on edges) this piece.
Duplicate and move over to the edge of the other piece.
Duplicate again (3 pieces total) and move over again.
Click on the center piece, and resize (unlock the lock), make this piece 2 px longer than the others (237px long).

2. Dodge brush, 50-90-100 and run the brush down the center of each board.

2. Click on the Path tool, 3D round, my black preset, and make a small narrow rectangle near the middle of these boards 214x25 px. long

3. Path tool, Circle, 3D round, Material Attribute Gallery - Metallic, Steel 3 preset, make a small circle 12x12 px.
Open the Material box and on the Border/Depth tab change it to Border 6 and Depth 30.

4. Move it over to the center of the first board and the center of the black rectangle band. Get it as close to centered by eye as you can.
Duplicate, and move to the second board. Duplicate it again for the 3rd board. Move them into place and move the band, and the circles, up like so. Save!

5. Select all your parts except the pumpkin, Rclick, Merge as Single object.
Resize, Perspective tool. Take the bottom handle and bring the bottom in a just a little. Try to keep the line straight at the bottom.
Grab the top handle on the side and widen the top, so it looks preportionate to a real barrel.

Pumpkins & Barrels

1. Select your pumpkin and slide it over to your barrel. Duplicate, Resize, Rotate freely, and turn this piece a bit one way or the other and move it over.
Duplicate, flip horizontally, and move it to the other side.
Lower the two outside pumpkins into the barrel more so than the center pumpkin.
leave a bit of space around the barrel so that it looks like there is thickness to the boards.

2. Add a shadow to the center pumpkin, which should be your top object. If not make it so.
No shadow for the other pumpkins in the barrel. Your pumpkin barrel is finished. Save as a tube with a new name.

3. Select all, group, copy and paste to your pumpkin house scene image.
Resize to the size you want for your scene. Duplicate and move over to the right side.
Add a bit more grass to cover the bases of the barrels.

Lamp & Holder

1. New Image set up like so.

2. Shade. Path tool - rectangle, 3D Round, color any. Make one 170x125 px. Use my lamp shade preset. Center both ways.
Transform tool, Perspective, grab on to a top handle either side and close up the top a bit. Grab a bottom handle and spread it out a bit. Deselect.

3. Base. Path tool - oval, 3D Round, Color any you like. Make a long oval 66x174 px.
Transform tool, Perspective, grab the top handle and close the top up like so.

4. Open the Material box and check the Spine check box. Apply.
You should now have something close to this.

5. Open my light bulb supplied with this tutorial and copy/paste it to your lamp image. Resize to 28x55 px. Move it over and center it on top of your lamp base.
Click on the shade object and Rclick, Arrange, Bring to front. Double click on it to get the properties box, and change the merge to If Lighter.

6. Lamp stand. Path tool, 3D Rectangle, color any for now. Make a rectangle 157x16 px. Double click on my lamp stand Ash-h preset to apply.
Select All, Group, Copy/Paste to your pumpkin house scene.
Move it down under the top orange object at the bottom.
Resize to roughly 53x89. There is room to play here so if you like it smaller use your best judgement.

7. Open the light stand fixture that came with this tut and copy/paste it to your pumpkin house scene. Drag it under your top orange object. Turn off the view for the top orange object, and other pieces in the way of your view, and place along the wall on the left. Fit the curve to the edge of the pumpkin. It should show through the window like so.

  

I hope you have enjoyed these tutorials. Feel free to send me your creation. I would love to see it.

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