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 This tip emerged when I was trying to build a
lot of exterior window shutter picture tubes in a variety of colors. I
wasn't satisfied with colorizing my original shutter for one thing, and I
wanted to be able to choose more than one style shutter.
BonusYou can also do this with door styles. |
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| Download the PSP 7.04 shutter file here. | Download shutter textures here. |
| When you unZIP the styles file, put the six BMP textures into your PSP Program Textures folder. (Mine is located at C:\Program Files\Jasc Software Inc\Paint Shop Pro 7\Textures.) | |
| Open the unZIPped Shutter.PSP file and duplicate it. (SHIFT+D) | |
| You already have the hinges behind the first layer, so highlight the Shutter layer. | |
| Load the Shutter selection (the only one) from the Alpha Channel. | |
| Flood fill the selection with your color of choice. | |
Effects> Texture Effects>Texture. Use one of the
shutter textures.
That's it! |
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| However, there's a left shutter and a right shutter. Duplicate the left shutter and mirror both the Hinges layer and the Shutter layer. The shadows will be different for each. | |
| Select the blank space on the side of the
first shutter on the Shutter layer. Invert (CTRL+I). Apply a drop shadow. I use a new layer with settings of H and V=3, 50% Opacity, Blur=3, color black. |
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| Merge Visible layers. Don't save it again
unless you want to put it into your house parts collection. Create a new document, put the window and the shutters where you want them and merge visible layers. Now you can put the window with shutters wherever you like on the house. |
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