Ice Cream Sundae
Tutorial

This tutorial was created December 12th 2001©Copyright Artwork by EssexGirl
please do not copy it, or put it anywhere else without my written permission.

This version of the tutorial only works in psp7 or 8. I had retired it,
but due to some interest I've reinstated it and rewritten the tutorial
for later versions of psp which can be found HERE

For this tutorial I used:-
JASC's PSP7

Dragonfly's Sinedot II filter you can get Here
(Create a folder in your pluggins folder and unzip Sinedots II into it.)

My Sundae pre-sets are in a zip file Here
(Unzip .cgf file into the folder you have made for Sinedots II)

some images have been made smaller to shorten file size

step 1.
Open a new image 250 X 250 transparent and flood fill
with a dark colour.

Step 2.
Add a new layer, then go to
Effects...Plugins...Sinedots
open the sg_sundae.cfg and choose the setting
called 'laced' if you are new to sinedots and
don't know how to open the .cfg file
click HERE for more information

Some presets use different 'blend' settings and it is
important for this tutorial to make sure that the blend
in the sinedots setting is set to 'screen' like this:-

note* If you are going to use psp's colourizer to colour
the glass and/or ice cream in the later stages, the sinedot
needs to have a colour now for this to work (it won't work
with white) so click on the colour box and select any colour.
Make a note of the colour code you will need to match it later.
If you prefer to use 'Adjust...Hue/Saturation/Lightness' this
isn't neccesary as that will work with the white sinedot.

this is my screenshot

Step 3.
Go to Effects...Geometric effects...Perspective vertical
and change the difference % to 100
This is what you should have

this is the top part of the sundae glass

Step 4.
To make the base of the glass open a new image 250 x 70
and repeat steps 1, 2 and 3, but
changing to minus 100 for the vertical perspective
here is my screenshot

Now to put them together

Step 5.
Open a new image 500 x 500 and flood fill, I used #400000
some of the colour will be visible through the sinedot
so I found it works best to use a dark colour which mixes
with your ice cream like a sauce,

Step 6.
Go back to the image with the base on, go to Edit...Copy
this image is no longer needed.
Now back to your new (500x500)image.
Edit...Paste...Paste an a new layer
Use the Mover tool to position the base at the bottom.

Step 7.
Go to Layers and duplicate this layer
Repeat step 6 with the top part of the sundae glass
Using the mover tool to position it above the base
Duplicate this layer twice so that you have 2 layers
with the bottom and 3 layers with the top on

Step 8.
Go to the layers palette and turn off the visibility
of the background layer and one of the layers containing
the top part of the sundae glass by clicking the glasses.
My screenshot is here

Go to Layers...Merge...Merge visible
re-name the merged layer sundae glass
this doubling of the layers makes the sundae glass
a bit heavier than the ice cream

Step 9.
Turn the visibility of the background and the other top
of glass layer back on and make this one the active layer.
Turn off the visibility of the sundae glass layer
Using the Magic Wand tool click on the background area
to select then go to Selections...Invert

Step 10.
Go to Effects...Geometric Effects...Twirl
and change the setting to -200 then de-select
this gives the ice cream that will be inside the glass a swirl.

Step 11.
For the top of the ice cream
Open a new image 300 x 200 transparent
flood fill with a dark colour and add a new layer
Go to Effects...Plugins...Sinedots
in the sundae.cfg you will find another setting called
ice_cream, this is the one you need this time.

see note* in step 2 (be sure to use the same colour
that you used in step 2)
Change the blend setting to screen
This is the screenshot

Go to Edit...Copy
this image is no longer needed

Step 12.
Go back to your main image and paste as a new layer
use the Mover tool to reposition on top of your ice cream

Step 13.
Now for a swirl in the ice cream top
Turn off the visibility of the bottom part of
your ice cream (the glass is also off)
Using the Magic Wand tool click on the background area
go to Selections...Invert..then
Effects...Geometric Effects...Twirl...
and use the same minus 200 setting as before

Step 14.
Turn the visibility of the bottom part of your ice cream
back on and turn off the visibility of the background layer
Go to Layers...Merge...Merge visible and re-name 'ice cream'

Step 15.
You can now change the colour of your ice cream to whatever
'flavour' you like (I like raspberry or black cherry yum)
by going to Colours...Adjust...Hue/Saturation/Lightness.
You can colour the sundae glass as well if you want to.

note** If you can't get any colour with
Hue/Saturation/Lightness try using the
Red/Green/Blue menu instead.
Since writing this tutorial I have written a couple of
tutorials on colouring.
One using Hue/Sat/Lightness can be found HERE
The other uses the Hue Map and can be found HERE

Step 16.
Turn on the visibility of all layers back on.
To finish off make the background the active layer,
use the Selection tool (rectangle) to select the bottom
third of the picture, and flood filled with a wood pattern fill
De-select. Turn off the visibility of the background and
Merge visible then give the merged
layer a drop shadow with these settings
vertical=0, horizontal=21, opacity=47, blur=14.8
and finished with a frame

If you don't fancy black cherry, here's a mint choc.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
Thankyou to my great testers

To see my other tutorials click Here

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