Tena's Teapot

This Teapot is made using Photo Impact 6

Great for beginners of PI



 



 

Open a blank canvas 300 x 300
Go to path drawing tool, elipse. Let's start by making the base.3d border 23 depth 10.Make it approx 140 wide by 46 high. 

If you watch at the bottom of your screen  on the left side,as you draw your shapes you will see the size you are getting.

Select the color for your teapot now.

   Now for the pot portion..again select the elipse and make it 129w x 115h. 3d border 58 depth 10.

Now let's make the lid..elipse again
border 22   depth 10.

Go back to path drawing tool
Select the shape..circle..draw a circle for the top of the lid  34w  x  34h.

Remember..save as you go!
 


 Now let's make the handle...go to the outline drawing tool.
Shape elipse, width 5
 border 5 depth 30

Click on the handle you made to make it active, go to object,convert object type...from path to image

Now choose the eraser tool 
 
 
 
 

erase a little less than half of your handle.

Right click it..send to back..place in position.
 
 
 

 


 

Let's make the spout
Go to path drawing tool, custom shape choose brush tip 1

Border 18 depth 5

Go to edit..rotate and flip...vertically
 

 Now go to edit path tool. Click on your spout to make it active. We need to change the shape on the tip of it.

Click on the toggle button and on the plus button...your image will now look like an outline with red squares..we need to add another point on our shape.
So click at the top of your shape on the right side to add  a point..then drag the new point up..click on the point at the top on the left and drag it down and in a little bit. 

Take the two points that are at the bottom on the left and right and drag them down and out equally.

Put the spout in place and use the transform tool to get it at the angle you like on your teapot.

Your shape should now look like the image shown.
 


 

 


We have our teapot all done..If you haven't saved your shapes yet do so now. Then you can have lots of fun changing colors and textures on it.

Now let's jazz this teapot up.

Click on your pot making it active..go to edit and fill..choose a color or a image.. I have used this one for mine.
You can download it here.

I did the pot, lid and spout with this fill.
Then activating the lid I clicked on the paintbrush..
choose a color on the right side thats a little darker than the color on your lid 
with the size set to 5
 
 
 
 

 

Now go up to effect..paint on edges.
You will now see yours edges of your lid have a nice darker color to them giving your lid a nicer look.

I also took my paintbrush, same settings and color as painted edges and select the mode button then painted a little on the tip of the spout.

I used a pink gradient on the base, handle and circle on the top.

 If you have the sinedot filter adding it can also make a lovely effect for you.

 Dragonfly Sinedot Filter by Phillip Spoeth 

 

     Here is our finished teapot.

 

Created 10/12/01 by Tena

copyright© Tena K Williams