Preparation:
Download and unzip the zip for this tutorial. Save the cfg file to your
dragonfly folder where you installed sinedots. Unzip the cherry tube to
whatever folder you like.
1. Open a
new solid color canvas, 300 x 400, black. This will become our mask.
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2. Go to
effect/ dragonfly/ sinedots II.
Click open and open dishdkd.cfg.
Make sure the blend mode is set on screen. Click the down arrow
beside preset and click dessert dish. Click
ok.
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3. Your dish is on the canvas, but it is
upside down. Use the transform tool and click the rotate and flip
button. Flip vertically.
4. Go to
format/ data type, and click grayscale. Your mask is
created.
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5. Open a new
canvas, again 300 X 400 pixels, but any color canvas you desire.
(Not transparent)
6. Go to
selection/ import selection. Choose "Open gray scale image". Click
ok.
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7. You will
now have selection lines on your canvas. Right click and convert to
object.
8. Go to edit/ fill/ gradient tab. Choose a multiple
color gradient and click ok.
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9. Click the
mask icon  to enter mask mode. This will allow you to
delete parts of the object. Use the selection tool set on ellipse,
fixed size unchecked and new selection selected in the
attribute bar. Starting outside the dish at the top, draw an oval
selection like this. Use the transform tool if necessary to resize
the oval to be thin and just the width of the dish. When you are
satisfied that your selection is right press the delete key on your
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10. Still in
mask mode, use the lasso tool to select the parts of the dish that
are sticking out at the bottom. Click the + in the attribute bar
under mode, and select the other side also. When you have selected
both of your bottom sides, press the delete key
again.
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11. Again,
still in mask mode, switch back to the regular selection tool. Set
the mode on new selection again, and make an oval selection at the
bottom like this.
Change the shape to rectangle and click the +
under mode. We will add to the selection. Starting at the top
outside the dish, click and drag down to the center of the first
oval so that your selection looks like this. Right click and invert.
Press the delete key. Now your dish is shaped up and looks like it
should, and we can leave mask mode. Click the mask icon
again.
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12. Use the
path tool set on ellipse shape to draw an oval to fit the back of
the dish. Fill the oval with a two color gradient using two colors
that you used to fill the dish.
13. Go to effect/ dragonfly/
sinedots II, and apply dish_back preset.
Go to object/ arrange,
send backward, and use the pick tool to move your oval to the right
place at the back of the dish.
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14. Use the
path tool again to make a rim for your dish. Click on the path tool,
and click on the material icon in the attribute bar. In the border/
depth tab, set the border on 3, and the type of border to both. Set
the shading in the shading tab to metallic. Draw and oval to fit the
top of your dish. Use the transform tool as needed to get it just
right.
Duplicate this rim. We'll be needing a front and a
back.
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15. Click the
mask icon to enter mask mode again. Using the ellipse shape, select
the top of the selected rim. Make the selection so that it hits the
rim about half way down like this. Press the delete key and click
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16. Use the
pick tool or the layer manager to select the rim behind the one you
just cut in half. Click the mask icon again, and this time make a
selection of the bottom of the rim like this, again arranging the
selection so that it hits the rim at about the center. Press the
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17. Draw
another rim for the bottom using the settings already set up for the
path tool. Use the method in step 15 to get rid of the back. If you
like, you can create anther tiny decorative rim for the middle of
the dessert dish.
Your dish is all done. Now let's fill it
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18. Click the
stamp tool. Click the down arrow beside the deer in the attribute
bar, and click import picture tube. Browse to the folder in which
you stored your cherry tube. Click open.
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19.
Click on the canvas to stamp one cherry on your canvas. Duplicate
it, and using the transform tool, rotate and flip, rotate 90 degrees
counterclockwise twice. Stamp another cherry, and place it near the
top of the bunch like this.
Stamp another one, and click the
rotate 90 degrees button three times. Place this cherry at the
bottom of the clump and use it to fill in the blank space. Right
click , click select all objects. Right click, click group.
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20.
Duplicate this clump of cherries enough times to fill the bowl.
Don't worry about any parts sticking out for now. We can fix that
later :) Rotate clumps as needed so the fact that you are
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Once your bowl is covered, use the layer manager to select all the
cherry clumps. Right click and merge as a single object. Arrange all
the parts of your bowl in the correct order. The back rim and the
back of the bowl need to be moved below the bowl, and the cherries
need to be moved between the back rim and the bowl.
22.
Leaving your cherries selected, click the mask icon Use the lasso
tool to surround the bowl like this. Leave the top cherries in the
bowl completely inside the selection. Right click and invert. Press
the delete key on your keyboard and click the mask icon again to
leave mask mode.
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Whew! Your cherries are in the bowl and
they look like they are ready to eat. I hope you take a little
longer to eat them than it did to follow this tutorial. :)
There
is a background for you to use in the zip or you can make your own.
Have fun! I hope you enjoyed the
tut!
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