Mirror and Shelf

We will be making a mirror and shelf, similar to the one that you see here.  This mirror and shelf set are of my own creation, and any resemblance to this tutorial is purely by coincidence, and the skills shown here are common to Paint Shop Pro.

In this tutorial we will be using the selections that I have provided in either PSP 7 or 8.  The tube of the bird is of unknown origin, so I can not offer it for download.  You may use a tube of your choice for the reflection effect on the mirror.

Materials Needed

I will not remind you between each step, but please save your image often, so that you will not lose all of your hard work.  Open your supplies zip, and save the patterns to your Patterns folder, and the metallic gradient to the Gradients folder.  If you have Eye Candy 4000, save the Frame Glaze setting to your Glass Folder.

(Eye Candy is not necessary to complete this tutorial, but it gives the wood a nice shiny finish.)

Choose which version of Paint Shop Pro that you are using, and download those selections, and extract the selections to a folder of your choice.  It is not necessary to save it within PSP.  Just open the zip and save to a folder of your choice, and where you will remember where it is.

Step 1 – Mirror

1. Open a new image, 400 x 400, transparent background and 16 million colors.
   Foreground:  Pattern, and select Finished Wood, angle 90, scale 100.
   Background:  Gradient, and select Metallic3 gradient, angle 45, and invert is checked.
2. New Raster Layer and call it Frame.
3. Selections/Load From Disk/OvalFrame.PspSelection.  Source luminance and Replace Selection checked, and click “Load”.  The marching ants should now be on your canvas.
4. Flood fill with your Finished Wood Pattern.  Keep selected.
5. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel, using the Frame preset.  Keep selected.
6. Effects/Plug ins/Eye Candy 4000/Glass and use the FrameGlaze preset.  Deselect.
7. Using your magic wand, tolerance and feather set at 0, anti-alias checked, click inside of the frame.  Keep selected.
8. New Raster Layer, named Trim.
9. Selections/Modify/Expand by 1.
10. Flood Fill with the D_Goldfold tile, angle 90 and scale 150.
11. Selections/Modify/Contract by 2.  Hit the delete button on your keyboard once.  Deselect.
12. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow – V & H set at 0, Opacity 80, Blur 5.0, and Shadow on New Layer is checked.
13. Highlight the trim layer again.
14. With your magic wand, click outside the trim area.
15. Go back to the shadow layer, and hit delete once on your keyboard, to clean up the outside of your shadow.
16. Highlight the Frame layer.  New Raster Layer and call it Mirror.
17. Selections/Load From Disk/inside_frame.PspSelection.
18. Flood fill with the Metallic3 gradient.
19. Adjust/Add and Remove Noise/Add Noise 3%, Monochrome and Gaussian checked.
20. You are now done with your mirror.  You can Layers/Merge/Visible and tube your image for future use, and go on to create your matching shelf.

Step 2 – Shelf

1. Open a new image, 240 x 70, transparent background and 16 million colors.Foreground:  Pattern, and select Finished Wood, angle 0, scale 100.
2. New Raster Layer and call it Top.
3. Selections/Load From Disk/Shelf_Top.PspSelection.  Source luminance and Replace Selection checked, and click “Load”.  The marching ants should now be on your canvas.
4. Flood fill with your Finished Wood Pattern.  Keep selected.
5. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel, using the Frame preset.  Keep selected.
6. Effects/Plug ins/Eye Candy 4000/Glass and use the FrameGlaze preset, changing the Bevel Width to 15.00, and the Lighting to Direction 90 and Inclination to 29.  Deselect.
7. New Raster Layer, named LeftSide.
8. Selections/Load From Disk/Shelf_Left.PspSelection.
9. Change the angle of your wood pattern to 90, and flood fill the selection.
10. Repeat the Inner Bevel.
11. Effects/Eye Candy 4000/Glass using the FrameGlaze preset, going back to the original settings.
12. Move this layer down below the shelf top.
13. New Raster Layer, named RightSide.
14. Selections/Load From Disk/Shelf_Right.PspSelection.
15. Flood fill the selection with your wood pattern, same settings.
16. Repeat the Inner Bevel.
17. Effects/Eye Candy 4000/Glass using the FrameGlaze preset.
18. Move this layer down below the shelf top.
19. You are now done with your shelf.  You can Layers/Merge/Visible and tube your image for future use, and go on to put your mirror and shelf set together.

Step 3 – Finishing the Image

1. Open a new image, 400 x 655, transparent background and 16 million colors.  This might be really big, but this is what I used for the peacock tube.  You can crop it down later.
2. Make your Mirror image active, make sure that you have merged the layers, and Edit/Copy.
3. Make your new image the active image, and Edit/Paste as a New Layer.
4. Make your shelf image the active image by clicking on it, and Edit/Copy.
5. Make the new image active, and Edit/Paste as a New Layer.
6. With your mover tool, move your mirror and shelf into place.
7. New Raster Layer, and make sure it is on top.  (Layers/Arrange/Move to Top)
8. Select your favorite tube, scale to your preference, and add this to the new layer.
9. Move this onto the shelf with your mover tool.
10. Layers/Duplicate.
11. Move this layer below the original, and move the image slightly down and to the right.
12. Change the opacity for this layer down to 50%.
13. Go back to your mirror layer, and with your magic wand, click outside of the image.  Selections/Invert.
14. Selections/Modify/Contract by 18.
15. Go back to your duplicated tube layer, and Selection/Invert.  Hit delete once on your keyboard.
16. Crop the excess on your image, and resize as needed.
17. You have now completed this tutorial.  I hope that you enjoyed it, and learned a bit.  Thank you!