Tutorial written by Mysticwolf/ AKA: Destiny PSP Magic © copyright 2004 ® All rights reserved to tutorial Making a candle with PSP 8 I have written 2 tutorials on making candles. There are some differences and you may find that you like one or both. What we are making There are no special plugins for this tutorials, we will be working with the selection tools, preset shapes, and bevels. Ok then, let's get started Making a Candle Open a new image size 200 x 200 choose your pre-set shape tool width 2 shape: cylinder foreground black background null Draw your shape with your selection tool select inside the bottom portion of the image, selections expand 3 delete, keep area selected Flood fill with a color of your choice I used a gradient while still selected add an inner bevel: Deselct select the top part of the candle, Selections modify expand by 4 delete, flood fill, inner bevel as before. Selections: Select none Selection: elipse Cut out a small part at the center of the top of your candle afer you have your selection like you want add the fireside bevel (It is a default bevel is psp 8) change the color to match the color of your candle New Raster Layer Picture Tube rope scale 30 add as your wick drag this layer to the bottom layers merge visible again using your selction tool elipase shape draw a few lines down on your candle for the dripping wax selections: promote to layer Add the fireside bevel same settings as you used earlier layers merge visible Layers new raster layer selections elipse draw an elipse at the bottom of your candle for the base flood fill with a color of your choice add inner bevel: Selections select none drag the plate layer under your candle an Center your candle on the plate You may add some decoration around the base of the candle if you would like. merge visible merge visible duplicate image twice resize canvas to 300 x 300 New Layer You may add some decoration around the base of the candle if you would like. merge visible duplicate image twice resize canvas to 300 x 300 close the bottom two layers add new layer, this layer should be on top candle image. (Layer 3) Add the fire tube resized 24 merge visible. Close this layer. open another candle layer and repeat above, until you have 3 merged layers. using your crop tube crop the candle to size save as a psp image and open in animation shop edit select all animation properties: 25 save image I Hope that you enjoyed this tutorial Marie Tutorial registered with TWI ~~~ Home / Tutorials / / Forum ~~~