KEEPSAKE PHOTO TANKARD Your Photo on a "china" Tankard.

Paint Shop Pro Tutorials by Karen

My father and I used to have a little home based business, glazing photo`s onto china collectors items. I still have some of the ones we made for our "samples" display, and when looking at them the other day, thought how nice it would be to do something similar in PSP. So I have photographed them and hope to be able to digitally recreate them, then write tutorials so others can make them too!. This is the sixth tutorial in the planned series, I hope you like it!... Before we begin you will need my files... CLICK HERE to download and unzip into your selections folder. You will also need your own photo and my golden fill, right click and save into a folder of your choice. Ready?... let`s create our tankard!

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I hope you enjoyed this tutorial which is written for PSP V 7 but should work in other versions.

Open your photo in psp, use your selections tool set at square, antialias 0, feather 0. Drag the mouse around the main part of the photo to select a square area. (This is important because if you leave the photo oblong, when placing into the selection on the tankard, it will be out of proportion.) Go edit / copy / edit / paste as new image. Minimise (click minus (-) sign at the top.) also open"kkgolden.jpg"... and minimise as well. Start a new image as in fig 1.

Go layers / new raster layer / ok. Now go selections / load from disk... browse to find the folder "kktankardfiles" double click the folder then find "kktankard.sel" highlight it then click "open". Flood fill with white deselect (selections / select none) Add a new layer as before, then go selections / load from disk and open "kktankardpicrim.sel". Flood fill white then go effects / 3D effects / inner bevel and apply as in fig 2.

Now go effects / 3D effects / drop shadow and apply as in fig 3.

Deselect then add a new layer. Go selections / load from disk and open "kktankarddecright.sel". Flood fill with white then go effects / 3D effects / inner bevel and apply as in fig 4.

Next go effects / 3D effects / drop shadow and apply as in fig 5.

Keep selected then click on the layer pallette icon to open the pallette Drag the top layer (highlighted blue- fig 6) down three layers (fig 6a)

(You might not have as many layers as me, I did the sample while making the tut!!!) Close the pallette then deselect. Add a new layer and load "kktankarddectop.sel". flood fill white and repeat the last inner bevel then repeat the last drop shadow. Open the layer pallette as before and drag this layer down one layer. Close layer pallette and deselect. Add a new layer then load "kktankarddecbottom.sel" and flood fill white. Repeat the last inner bevel and repeat the last drop shadow. Open the layer pallette then drag this layer down one layer. Close layer pallette then deselect. Add a new layer and load "kktankardgoldband.sel". Set your background to pattern fill and open the pallette by double clicking the current selected pattern. Change the pattern to "kkgolden" (it should be at the top of the drop down selections) set at 50%, angle 0, OK. Right click in the selection to fill with kkgolden. Now go effects / edge / enhance, repeat the last inner bevel and drop shadow then deselect. Add a new layer then load "kktankardgoldlip.sel", fill with "kkgolden". Repeat inner bevel, repeat drop shadow but change the horizontal and vertical offsets to1. Deselect then add a new layer.  Load "kktankardhandle.sel", flood fill white. Repeat inner bevel then add a new inner bevel as in fig 7.

Add a new layer then load "kkgoldrim.sel" and flood fill with "kkgolden". Go effects / edge / enhance then repeat inner bevel as in fig 8. Repeat the last drop shadow then deselect. Add a new layer, load "kktankardinnercircle" and floodfill with white. Go effects / 3D effects / inner bevel and apply as in fig 9.

Deselect then add a new layer. Load "kktankardphotoedge.sel" Open your minimised photo then go edit / copy, close your photo. Now go edit / paste into selection. Keep selected then add inner bevel as in fig 10.

Now add a drop shadow as in fig 11.

Repeat the drop shadow, but change the vertical and horizontal offsets to 3. Deselect then go layers / merge / merge visible then add inner bevel as in fig 12.

Next go image / mirror and repeat the last inner bevel then image / mirror. Now go image / flip and repeat the last inner bevel then image / flip. That`s it, your own photo on a "china" keepsake tankard. Save it and enjoy!