Candle Bridge

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Making the Candles

Welcome back. It sure feels good to get up and stretch once in awhile doesn't it? Let's continue on with making our candles to add to the bridge.

Step 1:
Open a new image 250x300, 16 million colors, transparent background. We want to have plenty of room to work with and will be resizing your candle before we are finished. Set your foreground styles to Null and your Background color to the color you want your candle to be. I used a deep red #C00000.

Step 2:
Add a new layer (Layers-->New Raster Layer), activate your preset shapes. Use the Round Rectangle preset, antialias checked. Retain Style and Create as vector UNchecked. In the middle of your canvas draw out a rectangle approximately 15w x 125h. Remember where I showed you to look for your coordinates in the first part of this tutorial.

Step 3:
Go to Effects-->3D-->Inner Bevel and apply these settings. Save.

Step 4:
Add a new layer, name it base. Change your background color to White. Using your preset shapes tool, draw out a rectangle on the bottom of your candle about 35w x 20h.

Step 5:
Go to Effects-->Texture Effects-->Sculpture. I used the Gold Preset.

Step 6:
Go to Effects-->Texture Effects-->Blinds and apply the following settings:

Here is how my candle looks so far.

Step 7:
Add a new layer, name it flame. Activate your preset shapes and scroll to the tear drop shape.

Change your foreground color to Yellow (#FFFF00) and your background color to Orange (#F36303). On your Color Styles select Gradient. , and choose foreground background from the dropdown list.

Use the linear style and invert your gradient.

Draw out a flame on top of your candle. Are you saving?? *S*

Step 8:
Go to Effects-->3D-->Drop Shadow and apply the following settings to your flame.

Step 9:
You can now decorate your base. Add a new layer, name it decoration. I used the Holly tube from JASC's Holiday Christmas Shapes. Activate your picture tubes tool, , and scroll to your holly tube, if that is what you are going to use. I set mine at a scale of 30.

The tube is randomly set, so you may have to undo and apply a couple of times to get it aligned to your liking, or you can use the deformation tool to rotate your holly. This is how mine turned out.

Step 10:
Duplicate your decoration layer. Go to Image-->Mirror and use your Mover tool to place it on the opposite side of your base.

Step 11:
We want to cutout the excess transparent background. Activate your crop tool, , and draw a rectangle around your image.

When you are happy with it, either double click on your work area or go to your tool options box and click Crop Image.

Step 12:
Go to Layers-->Merge-->Merge Visible. You can now save your candle and export it as a tube if you like for other projects. Let's put our candles on our bridge. Go to Edit-->Copy (Ctrl+C).

Step 13:
Activate your Bridge image that you made in part 1. Go to Edit-->Paste-->As A New Layer (Ctrl+L) and place your candle on one of the steps on your bridge. Continue to do this until all 6 steps are covered and you are done! You can now decorate your bridge to your tastes. When you are done and are satisfied with your results go to Layers--Merge-->Merge Visible. Crop it, tube, add a background layer and/or frame it. The possibilities are endless.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial as much as I did creating it.

A big thank you to the PSP_Dynasty's Tutorial Testing team for testing this tutorial for me.

If you have any problems, comments or questions please do not hesitate to E-mail me.

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