Candle Tutorial

This tutorial was written in PSP 7. It assumes you have working knowledge of vectors and layers. Please do not link to or remove images and or tutorial in any way and claim it as your own.

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This tutorial is © Country City 2002.

October 29, 2002

You will need:

Super Blade Pro - get it HERE

Eye Candy - get it HERE.

TOR preset shape (unzip in PSP/Shapes folder)

ZIP with selections

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Note: FC = Foreground Color

BC = Background color

CV = "Create as Vector" checked

CVU = "Create as Vector" unchecked

Create new image 50 x 30, transparent. Name it "candle_pattern".

Choose Preset Shape tool and find "tor" shape. FC&BC - #207055, CVU.

Draw shape from 0,0 to 50,30 (you can enlarge the image by 3-4).

Add new layer. Choose Draw tool, FC - white, width = 1.

Draw thin vertical line. Effects - Blur - Gaussian Blur = 3.

Add new layer.

Choose Draw tool, FC - white, width = 4.

Draw the line from 0,0 to 50 x 30.

Choose Magic Wand and click on the white line to select it.

Effects -Super Blade Pro. Click on the button with CD image and find gold basic.q5q preset.

Go to Layer 1. Selections - All - Float. Selections - Invert.

Go to Layer 3 and hit DEL once. Deselect.

*Don`t merge layers, because you will be able to use this pattern for future colorozing

(Go to Layer 1 - Colors - Colorize and play with settings).

Create new image 100 x 330. Click on Selection tool twice and choose the following settings:

In Styles panel choose your "candle_pattern" (it will be at the top of all patterns) and Flood fill the selection.

Now your image will look like this:

Add new layer.

Choose Preset Shape tool, ellipse, FC - #1F5F48, BC - #207055, CVU.

Draw the narrow ellipse in the top part of the candle:

Selections - All - Float.

Selections - Modify - Contract by 2.

Selections - Feather by 2.

Flood fill with #F9C307.

Merge Visible layers. Choose Deformation tool, press Ctrl key and slightly "press" the top part of the candle.

Add new layer.

Choose Picture Tube tool - Rope (scale = 20, step = 15) and draw the wick.

Add one more new layer.

Choose Picture Tube tool - Fire and draw fire.

If you would like to make animated candles, then skip the last operation. We will do it later.

For more reality choose Paint Brush tool (FC = #20705) and draw some lines like melted drops.

Then Effects - Inner Bevel and play with settings. I used "metallic" preset.

Tube your "candle" image.

Now to Candlestick...

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