Champagne Glass Tutorial PSP9 version This tutorial was created 27th December 2002©Copyright Artwork by EssexGirl updated for use with PSP9 28th February 2005 please do not copy it, or put it anywhere else without my written permission. *NOTE* Sometimes the links for filters change, it's difficult (and a lot of work) to keep changing them on individual pages, so I have created a page with links to filters and programs that I have used in my tutorials. That way it is easier for me, because when there are changes I will only have one page to update and hopefully better for you, because I'm less likely to miss a page out when doing the updates :) You will find links to filters/programs used in this tutorial Here the link will open in a new window Filters and programs used in this tutorial :- Paint Shop Pro Fantastic Machines Paint Engine Materials:- There is a text file included in the zip, if you don't know where to place the items. My selection file, gradient and bubbles tube Here some images have been made smaller to shorten file size

This tutorial was originally written for PSP7 and used the Sinedots filter and PSP's Geometric Effect...Perspective...Vertical, to create the top of the glass. Unfortunately the Perspective effect works differently in PSP9 and distorts the sinedots shape too much to use, so I have made a selection file for creating the glass top, which you can downoad in the section above. Step 1. Open a new image 300 x 150 transparent, Raster background. Flood fill with a dark colour then add a new layer naming it 'glass top' Go to Selection...Load/Save Selection...Load Selection From Disk Load the champagne-glass-top.sel Flood fill the selection with a pastel colour, I used #D0B3D0

Step 2. Go to Image...Canvas Size... Change canvas size to 300 x 400 ticking the In the Placement area choose the top centre square. You should have a large transparent area at the bottom of your image. Make the background layer active and flood fill with your dark colour.

Step 3. Use a colour from your sinedots image as the palette background colour and make the foreground a slightly darker shade of the same colour. I used #D0B3D0 for the background and #978197 for the foreground. Change the foreground style to gradient and use gradient=foreground-background, style=linear gradient, angle=90, repeats=1 Make the background style null. Add a new layer naming it 'stem' Activate the Pen Tool and use these settings Mode = Draw Lines and Polylines Conect Segments = unticked Show nodes = unticked Create as Vector = unticked Line style = Solid Width = 15 Antialias = unticked Draw the stem, leaving enough space below it for the base of the glass. If you hold down the shift key as you draw it will keep the line straight

Step 4. We are going to add a highlight, but when we blur this, some of it may spill over the edges of the stem. To make it easy to clean up any overspill we will make a selection in the area outside of stem shape and save it to the alpha channel. Click the blank area outside the stem with the Magic Wand to select. Go to Selections...Load/Save Selection... ave Selection to Alpha Channel calling it stem cleanup. De-select. Add a new layer, naming it 'stem highlight'. Change the foreground colour to white and style to solid fill. On the Pen Tool options change the line width to 3. Draw a line down the length of the stem, a little to the right of the centre. It won't matter if you make it too long as any excess will be deleted when we do the cleanup. Go to Effects...Blur...gaussian blur...radius=1.99 Go to Selections...Load from Alpha Channel... and load the 'stem cleanup' selection. Press the delete key, then de-select. With the 'stem highlight as the active layer, go to Layers...Merge...Merge Down.

Step 5. Change the foreground colour back to the one you used in step3 (you can right click on the colour box to bring up a window of recently used colours). The background colour should still be the same as in step 3 Change the background style to gradient fill using foreground-background gradient, style=linear gradient, angle=320, repeats=0. Make the foreground style null Make the background layer active and add a new layer naming this layer 'base'. Activate the Preset Shapes Tool, it's bottom one shown in this screenshot use these settings Shape=ellipse Retain style=unticked Antialias=ticked Vector unticked Line style=solid Line width=1 Starting at the bottom centre of the stem right click down with the mouse and drag down and to the right to draw an ellipse for the base, keep in mind that it needs to be large enough so that the glass doesn't topple over, we don't want any spills :) Move into position with the Mover Tool if necessary. We are going to make a clean up selection for the base in the same way that we did for the stem. Click the blank area outside the ellipse with the Magic Wand, save it to the alpha chanel naming it 'base cleanup'. De-select.

Step 6. Add a new layer, naming it 'base highlight'. Change foreground colour to white and the style solid fill. Make the background style null. Use the Pen Tool with these settings Contiguous = unticked Simple mode = unticked Create as Vector = unticked Mode = Drawing mode Segment type = Freehand Line style = Solid Width = 5 Antialias = ticked You can zoom in so that it's easier to see what you are doing. We want a couple of curved lines using the pen tool at width 5, then change the width to 2 and draw line along the bottom close to the edge . It doesn't matter if they are a bit uneven, as we are going to blur them and anything that goes over the edge will be deleted. You can use the following screenshot as a guide, but they don't have to be exact. Go to Effects...Blur... Gaussian blur...radius=3.97 load the 'base cleanup' selection from the alpha channel and press the delete key. De-select. With the base highlight as the active layer, go to Layers...Merge...Merge down.

Step 7. Make your stem layer active. We need to soften the bottom edge of the stem where it meets the base. Activate the Soften Brush and use these settings Shape=round Size=5 Hardness=12 Step=30 Density=40 Thickness=100 Rotation=0 Opacity=70 Soften the join between the stem and base The transparency of the base and stem layers can be lowered to give a more glassy look. Open the layers palette and move the tranparency slider down until you are happy with the result. I lowered the transparency on my stem layer to 80 and on my base layer to 60 Turn off the visibility of the background layer by opening the layer palette and clicking the 'eye' next to that layer to hide it. Merge visible, rename the merged layer 'glass' Turn the visibility of the background layer back on by clicking the eye again to remove the X.

Step 8. With glass layer active go to Image...resize... Make sure that the all layers box is unticked, make the resize type bicubic resample and resize to 75% Use the the Mover Tool to place glass in the centre. Next we add some wine to the glass Add a new layer. Change the palette background to white solid fill and the foreground null. Activate preset shapes tool and use these settings. Shape=ellipse Retain style=unticked Antialias ticked Create as vector=unticked Line style=solid line width=1 make an ellipse for the surface area of the drink. If you need to adjust the size of your ellipse, click on the Deformation Tool and use the handles of the deformation box to stretch or contract it. You can reposition it with the centre handle, or with the Mover Tool. Lower the transparency of the layer in the layer palette. I lowered mine to 42. Then move the layer below the 'glass' by opening the layers palette and dragging it down. Hide the background layer, Merge Visible, then turn visibility back on.

Step 9. Go to Effects 3D Effects...Drop Shadow... Add a drop shadow with these settings Vertical Offset=0 Horizontal Offset=5 Opacity=71 Blur=14.8 Colour=black You can decorate the background in any way that you want. This is how I did mine Change the palette foreground to gradient fill Style=linear gradient Angle=45 Repeats=0 I used a gradient of my own called 'sg_hot and dark'. This gradient was created in PSP7, but it will work in PSP8 as well. If you want to use that one you can download it from the link at the top of the page. Make the background layer active and flood fill with the gradient. Go to Effects...Plugin Effects... Fantastic machines...Paint Engine...use the 'borg' preset Use the Selection Tool type=rectangle to select a rectanglular section at the bottom of the image. This is my screenshot Go to Colours...Adjust...Brightness/Contrast... brightness=-23 (minus 23), contrast=14 De-select I finished by adding a new layer on top of the background layer and placing a few tubed bubbles into my glass. I used my own tube of bubbles scale=50. You are welcome to use these if you haven't got any tubed bubbles. They can be downloaded from the link at the top of the page. Add any other tubes that you want (cocktail sticks, cherries etc.) Go to Layers...Merge...Merge All.... Add a frame of your choice.

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