PSP 8 - Get it here - would also work in
ver. 6 and 7
My zip - get it here - includes hinge, latch, feed tub and bridle
Metallic gradient from PSP 7 - or a metallic gradient of your choice
Wood Texture of your choice - I got mine here
Horse tube of your choice
Note: Whenever I say to add a new layer, add a raster layer
Before you begin, make sure your Rulers are showing - View--->Rulers (I always have mine showing but many don't, you will need them for this tutorial)
1. Open a new image 500 x 400. Flood fill with your wood pattern. I used a scale of 20 for my pattern. Adjust--->Brightness and Contrast--->Brightness/Contrast. Fill in -15 for Brightness. Name this layer "back".
2. Add a new layer and name it "side". Flood fill with your wood pattern at a higher scale than in step 1. I used 26 for mine. I found it easiest to turn off visibility on my back layer for this step. Click on your deformation tool and hold down the Ctrl key and push up on the bottom right corner to about 260 on the left grid as shown below:
Hint: To better see that bottom right node, pull out on the side of your canvas until it goes over.
Push in on the middle right node to 100 on the top grid as shown:
Click on any other tool to apply the deformation. Adjust the brightness by about
-10. Turn the back layer back on if you turned it off for this step.
3. With your mover tool, move the side piece up so that there is no space at the top. I aligned mine with the back piece. With your colour picker, select a darker shade from your wood and use the pen tool to draw a line, one pixel wide, down the right side of the side piece, for the corner.
4. Add a new layer and name it "top". click on your selection tool and draw a rectangle most of the way across the image, about 50 pixels deep:
Fill the selection with the wood pattern at a scale of 32 and deselect. Adjust the brightness by -20.
Effects---3D Effects--->Inner Bevel. Use the Soft Edge preset but change the Depth to 1.
5. Duplicate this layer twice. Layers--->Duplicate. On the original top layer, move the piece of wood up to the top of the image.
On the next layer, Rotate to the left by 90 degrees (Image--->Rotate--->Free Rotate) making sure "all layers" is UNchecked. Move this piece over to the left edge of the canvas and rename the layer to "left side".
On the last duplicate layer, Rotate to the right by 90 degrees and move over to the right edge of the canvas. Rename the layer to "right side". For the screenshot below, I have turned off the other layers, so you can see better:
Note: On the side pieces, the piece of wood will hang over your canvas - this is what we want, to hide the effects of the bevel on the ends.
6. Go down to the side layer (the one just above the back layer). Add a new layer and name it "front". With your selection tool, draw a rectangle starting at around 210 on the left side, going down to the bottom and over to about 280 on the right side:
Flood fill with the wood pattern at the same scale. Deselect and adjust the brightness by -20 and apply the same inner bevel but change the angle to 138. If you have any gap between it and the left side beam, just move it over a bit.
7. Add a new layer and name it "door". With the selection tool, draw another rectangle filling in the gap between the front and right side beam. Flood fill with the wood pattern, same scale and apply the same brightness and inner bevel.
8. Add a new layer and name it "hinges". Open your hinges_msr.psp image and Edit--->Copy. Go to the stall image and Edit--->Paste--->Paste as New Selection. Place it over the left edge of the door toward the top. Paste as New Selection again and place a second hinge toward the bottom of the door. Deselect.
Go to the right side layer and add a new layer, naming it "latch". Copy and paste the latch_msr.psp onto the layer as a new selection and place it on the upper right side of the door. Deselect.
9. Add a new layer and name it "bars". Set your foreground to null and background to the metallic gradient that came with PSP 7, Angle 90 Repeats 0. (You can set your PSP 8 to use PSP 7 gradients in Preferences--->File Locations. Select Gradients and point it to the gradient folder in ver. 7. PSP 7 must be installed on the computer to do this)
Click on your preset shapes tool. Anti alias checked, retain style and create as vector unchecked. Draw a long narrow rounded rectangle on your image. You want it to be taller than the space between the top of your front and the top of your image.
Adjust the brightness by +10. Selections--->Select All. Selections--->Float. Add a new layer and flood fill with a light gray colour. I used #F3F1F1. Change your layer blend mode to "multiply" and deselect.
10. Turn off all layers except the bars layer and the blended layer. A quick way to do this is Layers--->View--->None and then click on each of the two layers you want to see to turn them back on. Merge visible and rename the merged layer to "bars". Turn the other layers back on - Layers--->View--->All.
With your mover tool, move the bar over to the left side and drag this layer down to below the front layer. (Or, Layers--->Arrange--->Move Down a few times)
11. Edit--->Copy. Edit--->Paste--->Paste as New Selection and place
to the right of the first bar. Keep pasting as new selection until you have
bars across the front to the left edge of the door. Turn on your grid to help
space them evenly.
I ended up moving my back side piece over a bit to the right because the way I had my bars, the corner wasn't showing.
You are now finished your stall. All that's left is to put a horse in and any accessories you choose. I have enclosed a bucket tube and a bridle tube in the zip if you'd like to use it.
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