My Jar Tutorials

My Jar Lamp Shade Tutorial

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Let’s get started

 

You can use any version of Paint Shop Pro. If you don’t have Paintshop Pro and you have GIMP or Photoshop, I can always Write up a Tutorial for those too. 

(Just email me that you would like me to write a tutorials for both of the other program/software.)

Supplies you need

I have zipped up the supplies that you need below.

My Jar Selection

Click Here to get the Supplies for the Jar

Open your Paint Shop

Open new image to 700x700 and make sure the transparent is checked. You should have plenty of room to work in.

 

You will need to create 5 Layers and If I were you, I would make sure to Label them what they are.

Which they are: Line of Jar, Bottom, Glass, Rim, and Top

 

After you got all your Layers all done you are ready to put the Jar together.

Go to your Toolbar and find Selections

Click selections, Drop Down window will appear and find Load/save Selections

Side Drop Window will appear and click on Load Selection to Disk

Find the Folder My Jar and click on it

You should see 5 items in the folder

Let's start with the Body (line) Jar selection, 

which is the line of the jar. Click on it and click load. You will see those Marching Ants that shows you the outline of the Jar. Make sure the Layer you are working on is highlighted in blue. We are going to Color the Lines of the Jar. Click on your Flood Fill Tool and pick any color you want. When you choose a color, you need to fill that color in between the lines. The lines should be whatever color you choose. You can now click on selection and click none. So, the Marching Ants are not there anymore.

Don’t worry about how the jar looks like right now, I will be showing you later on how to move everything to the center.

 

So, your Body Line Jar Layer should look something like this

Lets go to the next Layer Bottom selection 

do the same thing, click on Selection, click on Load/Save Selection, and click on Load Selection to Disk. Find the fold My Jar and click on Bottom and Load. 

(Make sure that the Bottom Piece is Label Bottom and its above the Jar Line, Hide the Jar Line so you only see the one you are working on.)

You should see the marching ants outlining the image, this means you are ready to use your Flood Fill Tool and pick a color and fill the bottom selection whatever color you choose. If you are happy with what you see so far, click on Selection and click none. So, the Marching Ants are not there anymore. 

It should Look like this, when it's done

  Lets go to the next Layer Jar Glass selection 

do the same thing, click on Selection, click on Load/Save Selection, and click on Load Selection to Disk. Find the fold My Jar and click on Jar Glass and Load. You should see the marching ants outlining the image, this means you are ready to use your Flood Fill Tool and pick the color white and fill the Jar Glass selection. 

 

Lets go to the next Layer Jar Rim Selection 

do the same thing, click on Selection, click on Load/Save Selection, and click on Load Selection to Disk. Find the fold My Jar and click on Jar Rim and Load. You should see the marching ants outlining the image, this means you are ready to use your Flood Fill Tool and pick any color you want and fill the Jar Rim selection. 

So Your Jar Rim Layer should look something like this, before you fill the color, make sure you have those Ants Marching  

 Lets go to the next Layer Jar Lid1 Selection 

do the same thing, click on Selection, click on Load/Save Selection, and click on Load Selection to Disk. Find the fold My Jar and click on Jar lid1 and Load. You should see the marching ants outlining the image, this means you are ready to use your Flood Fill Tool and pick any color you want and fill the Jar lid1 selection. 

If you are happy with what you see so far, click on Selection and click none. So, the Marching Ants are not there anymore. We will come back to this one later to do some more work.

Let’s make sure we center the jar; this is how you do it.

 You need to go to your Layer Palette on your right - You see all your Layers you have done

You need to make sure all those layers are highlighted in blue

 Your first Layer should be already Highlighted

Hold your Control Button and Click the next Layer

And you just keep doing that until it looks like this

When you look at your Layers it should be in these orders

Outline Jar

Lid

Rim

Wall Jar

Bottom Jar

 If your Layers look like the above image then you are ready to go on to the next step.

On your Tool bar in your program you will need to click Objects

Then click Align

And go all the way down until you see Horiz Center in Canvas

Your Jar should be in the center of the canvas now.

 Make sure your Layers are in order, if they are not just drag them up or down wherever they need to be at. Just like the Image above

Now we need to go back to the Glass Layer

Click on the Glass Layer so it will be active

You should see on your Layer Pallet the word Normal and the number 100

This is called Blend Mode

If you don’t see it on your Pallett, click on your Flood Fill Tool and you will see it on the tools where you can change the settings.

We need to click the little arrow that is next to the word Normal, you will get a drop-down window with all the Blend modes

We need to click on Soft Light, it should look little bit more darker and faded.

Your Jar should now look like this

We have couple more things to do with the Jar and then we will start with Making the Lamp Shade. 

Since your Jar looks like a Jar now we are going to design the Lid and put something in the jar. 

Click your outline Layer and use your Magic wand tool and click the Outline of the Jar

Now we are going to pick out a Free image background that matches the Jar above