You can see a tag made with this box at the bottom of the page.
This tutorial was written by Monti on August 27th 2009. You may print out this tutorial for your own personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or rewrite without my permission or worse yet attempt to claim as your own.
This was written for psp 9 but will work in other versions.
For this tutorial you will need
Paint Shop Pro
Some Textures of your choice
There are plenty on Deviant Art that allow usage.
Some Hinges
The ones I am using came from DoziBaers site.
Click on Scrapbooking Embellishments and scroll down to enter, then choose Hinges on the right.
A Gold Fill
Just right click and save to your PSP Patterns folder.
Some Swirl Brushes of your Choice
Step 1:
I am working on a 700 x 700 canvas as I am doing one for a tag, if you want one bigger please increase all sizes to your choice.
Turn on your Rulers by going to View- Rulers so you can see sizes.
Select your Preset Shapes tool set to Rectangle.
Set your Background to a dark colour of your choice and your Foreground to Null. Line Style: Solid.
Starting at 100 x 100 pixels draw a Rectangle down to 600 x 600 pixels.
Go to Objects - Align - Center In Canvas.
Convert to Raster layer and rename Back.
Go to Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat.
Set your Foreground to a medium shade of the same colour and tick the Texture box as shown below.
Set the texture to the one you want to use. I have had mine for ages and can't remember where they came from sorry, but any nice texture will do.
Add a new raster layer and fill the selection with the medium coloured texture.
Deselect.
In the Layer Palette right click on the top layer and choose Merge Down.
Activate your Deform/Pick tool.
While holding down the Ctrl key click on the top left node and pull inwards slightly.
While still holding Ctrl click on the bottom left node and pull out slightly.
Then click on the top center node and move it down slightly until your shape looks like the image below.
Step 2:
We are now going to do the strip at the bottom that gives the box depth.
Set your Foreground to the medium shade we used for the Back layer and your Background to the dark colour we used earlier.
Then set your Foreground to Null and set your Background to Gradient - Foregound/Background - Style: Linear - Angle: 0 - Repeats: 0.
Make sure your dark colour is at the top, if it isn't then check the Invert Gradient box.
Select your Preset Shapes tool set to Rectangle.
Draw out a rectangle about 50 pixels high and not quite as wide as the Back layer.
Go to Objects - Align - Horizontal Center In Canvas.
Convert to raster layer and rename Height.
Activate your Deform/Pick tool again and while holding the Ctrl key click on the bottom left node and move it in slightly.
Please note I have lowered the opacity of the Back layer so you can see this shape properly.
Whether you do the next part is up to you but I wanted to give the top a bit more shadow.
Select the Burn tool from the tool bar - see below:
Use the following settings:
Place your Burn brush over your rectangle so that the brush lines up with the top left corner.
Hold down the Shift key and click on the top right corner. This will darken in a stright line across the top.
Repeat a few times until you are happy with the shading.
Step 3:
Click on the Back layer to activate it.
Duplicate this layer - Layers - Duplicate - and move above the height layer in the layer palette.
Rename Lid.
Go to Selections - Modify - Expand by 2 - Selections - Modify - Smooth and set both boxes to 10.
Fill with the medium colour we used earlier.
Add a new raster layer and change the Foreground to a light shade of the same colour making sure you check the Texture button and choose a texture.
I chose to use the same one I used on the back layer.
Fill the selection with this colour/texture.
Deselect and click on the top layer in the Layer Palette and choose Merge Down.
Select your Move tool and move the lid up a bit so that you can see most of the the height layer at the bottom.
Open up the hinge you wish to use.
We only need one side of the hinge so activate your Selection Tool set to Rectangle and select the right half of the hinge.
Go to Edit - Copy and then paste as a new layer on your box canvas.
Resize to suit your box. I resized at 60% - Smart Size - All Layers Unchecked.
Use your Move tool to move into postion then use your Deform/Pick tool to rotate it slightly so it lines up with your lid.
Use my image as a guide.
Go to Adjust - Sharpen - Sharpen More.
Duplicate the hinge and move the other hinge into position.
Click on the duplicate hinge in the layer palette and choose Merge Down to merge it with the other hinge.
Rename this layer Hinges and add a slight Drop Shadow if you wish.
Step 4:
Before we finish the box we are now going to make a key hole so save your box psp file and minimize for now.
Open a new transparent canvas 150 x 150 pixels.
Set your Foreground to Null and your Background to the Gold Fill Pattern.
Activate your Preset Shapes tool set to Ellipse.
Draw out an Ellipse similar in shape to the one below.
Go to Objects - Align - Center In Canvas and convert to raster layer. Rename Base.
Set your Background to a dark colour (it doesn't matter which one as we will be deleting this layer later).
Still on your Ellipse Preset Shape draw out a small cirlce in the top half of the ellipse for the top of our keyhole.
Go to Objects - Align - Horizontal Center In Canvas and convert to a raster layer.
Select your Preset Shapes again, this time set to Rounded Rectangle.
Draw out a small Rectangle and go to Objects - Align - Horizontal Center In Canvas and convert to a raster layer.
Activate your Deform/Pick tool and while holding down your Ctrl key click on the bottom left node and move it out slightly.
Then click on the top left one and while holding down the Ctrl key move it in slightly.
In the Layer Palette click on the top rectangle layer and choose merge down to merge it with the coloured circle layer.
While still on the coloured shapes layer go to Edit - Cut - Edit - Paste as New Layer. This will center the shape.
In the layer palette delete Raster 2.
Select Raster 3 layer and go to Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat.
In the layer palette activate the Base layer and press Delete on the keyboard.
Deselect and then delete Raster 3.
Activate Base layer and go to Selections - Select All - Float and apply the following Cutout.
Deselect.
Select your Preset Shapes tool again set to Ellipse and draw out a small circle at the bottom of the ellipse to act as a screw.
Go to Objects - Align - Horizontal Center In Canvas and convert to a raster layer.
Go to Selections - Select All - Float and apply the same Cutout.
Add the following Drop Shadow to the screw.
Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 50
Blur = 3
Colour = Black.
In the layer palette right click on the Screw layer and Merge Down to merge it with the Base layer.
Now we are going to do the cover for the lock.
With your Background still on your Gold Fill and your Foreground still Null draw out a circle - see my screen shot below for an idea of the size.
Go to Objects - Align - Horizontal Center In Canvas and convert to a raster layer.
Go to Selections - Select All - Float and apply the same Cutout but change the blur to 10.
With the same Preset Shapes settings draw out an Ellipse and make sure it is big enough to cover the Base Shape layer.
Move this beneath the top circle layer and go to Objects - Align - Horizontal Center In Canvas and convert to a raster layer.
Go to Selections - Select All - Float and apply the same Cutout but change the blur to 15.
Click on the top Circle layer and choose Merge Down to merge it with the lock cover.
Use your Deform/Pick tool on the top layer (the cover) to angle it so it looks like it is open. See below:
On the top layer go to Adjust - Sharpen.
Then go to Edit - Copy Merged and paste onto the box.
Move to the right hand side in the middle and resize to suit.
Go to Adjust - Sharpen - Sharpen More and add a small Drop Shadow.
Rename Lock.
Step 5:
Now we will finish working on the Box.
Activate your Preset Shapes tool set to Rectangle with the following settings:
Line Style: Solid - Line Width: 6 - Foreground: Gold Fill - Background: Null.
Draw out a rectangle - use my tag as a guide to the size.
Go to Objects - Align - Horizontal Center In Canvas and convert to a raster layer.
Use your Deform/Pick tool and while holding down your Ctrl key pull out the bottom nodes until the shape is similar to the main box. See below.
Rename this layer Gold Edge.
With your Magic Wand - Tolerance and Feather: 0 - click inside the gold edge.
Go to selections - Modify - Expand by 4
Click on your Lid layer to activate it and click on Delete on your keyboard.
Deselect.
Sometimes when you do this you will notice that the area you just removed isn't all filled with the Back layer.
If this is the clase click on the Back layer to activate it then select your Deform/Pick tool and just use the nodes to stretch it slightly to fit.
That is the main box done.
I added a new layer under the gold edge and added some swirls using brushes and my gold fill as the colour.
Hide your Back and Height layers and Merge All - Visible.
Rename Lid.
Making sure you are on the back layer, fill with anything you want making sure you erase anything that goes over the edges.
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