Champagne Glass

PSP9

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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 transparent.

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.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
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