10. Now, we will do the door. I suck at perspective drawing (as you can see by the loft door!), so I'm going to use a little trick to get it right. On your front layer, add a new layer and draw a vector rectangle with a colour that shows up well on your image. (this will be deleted so it can be any colour you choose):
Hold down your Shift key and bring the left lower corner node down and the right upper corner node up, to line the rectangle up with the bottom of the barn front:
Make sure you have it where you want it, and then convert the layer to raster layer. Selections--->Select All. Selections--->float to select the rectangle, then Selections--->Defloat. Keep selected and delete this raster layer, then go down to your front layer and hit the delete key. Selections--->Load/Save Selection--->Save Selection to Alpha Channel. Give it a name and click ok. Deselect. We now have the hole for our door with the same perspective as the front. If there is any that got missed on the bottom, just erase it with the eraser tool.
11. Add a new raster layer below the front layer, name it "back". On the new layer, Selections--->Load/Save Selection--->Load Selection from Alpha Channel and load the selection you saved in the previous step. Selections--->Modify--->Expand by 2 pixels and flood fill with black. Deselect. With your freehand selection tool, select around the bottom 2 pixels that hangs over the bottom of the front, and delete. The reason we flood fill with black on a layer below the front is so we can put an animal or person or whatever in there easier when we go to finish the scene. Tip: Just in case I didn't like the shape of the door later on or I wanted to change the front for a different scene, I duplicated the front layer before making the door and turned it off. This gave me a copy of the layer to fall back on if I wanted to redo the door or do it differently at a later time. It also makes it easier to change the look of the barn if you want for another scene you may do in the future.
11. Go back up to your front layer and add a new raster layer. Name it "left lower door". With your freehand selection tool, draw a rectangle, as shown:
Flood fill with your wood pattern at a scale of 85. Deselect. Effects--->3D Effects--->Inner Bevel. Apply the Soft Edge preset.
12. Add a new layer and click on your pen tool with the following settings:
Foreground is your wood pattern at a scale of 110, background null. Draw three lines as shown - I have drawn it in white so you can see it better:
Apply the same inner bevel. I wanted mine to show up against the front layer a bit better so I adjusted the brightness by +15.
Turn off all layers except the two left door layers and merge these two visible.
(A quick way to do this with lots of layers is Layers--->View--->None
and then click on the visibility toggle to show each of the two we are merging)
Rename the merged layer Left Lower Door and turn all layers back on.
13. Use the same technique to make a door on the right side.
You could just duplicate and mirror the left door if you wanted, but I didn't like the way that looked, so I did the right door separately.
14. To make the loft door, go to your front layer and with the freehand tool, draw a rectangle keeping in perspective with the front piece. This may take a few tries to get it right - it took me more than just a "few"!
Hit your delete key. Keep selected and add a new layer below this one, expand the selection by 2 pixels and flood fill with black. Deselect.
15. For the loft door, go up to your right roof layer and add a new raster layer "loft door". With your freehand selection tool, draw a rectangle and flood fill it with the pattern at a scale of 75:
Deselect and apply the same inner bevel.
With your pen tool, draw the "Z" on a new layer like you did for the lower doors using a scale of 100 for the wood pattern and size 4 for the pen. Apply the same inner bevel. Merge these two layers visible.
16. Add a new layer below the loft layer and use the hay tube provided to put stacks of hay in the hay loft. I colorized mine using 40 for hue and 101 for saturation and used a scale of 90
You are now done your barn. I found that this roof does not resize well, it gets a bad case of the "jaggies" so I tubed mine without the back layer under the bottom door. It resizes much better as a tube.
Enjoy!
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