Weathered Clay Pot Tutorial

Software - PSP8
 

Download the rusty tin pattern and save it to  your pattern folder.

Open a 500 x 500 canvas transparent. Change the FS and Fill properties to
rusty tin.

Click on preset shape and choose pentagon. Draw a pentagon on the center of the canvas. Pull the nodes down and edit it to symmetric. Pull the node arrow slightly out.

Add node on the bottom of the image. Edit the node to symmetric. Pull the node arrow slightly out. Your image should look similar to the image below.

Convert to raster layer. Double click the layer and name it pot1.

Click on preset shape and choose and choose rounded rectangle. Draw a rounded rectangle on top of the image.

Press and hold the control key. Right click and hold the mouse key and slightly push the image inward. See image below.

Click on the right inner node and edit it to merge. Click on the left inner node and edit it to merge. Add node on the center of the image. Slightly pull the image down. Edit the node to symmetric. Then slightly pull the node arrow out to give it a circular shape.

Convert to raster layer. Double click the layer on the layer palette and name it pot 2.

Click on preset shape and choose ellipse. Draw an ellipse on top of the image. Click on layers/ arrange/ and move the layer down. Convert to raster layer.

Double click the layer on the layer palette and name it pot 3.

Click the layer pot 1 and make it selected. Add a new raster layer. Click on airbrush tool. Settings below.

Airbrush the image as shown below. Run airbrush one more time on the top part of the image. Click ADJUST/BLUR/ GAUSSIAN BLUR 12. OK. Deselect.

Right click raster 2 from the layer palette and merge the layer down.

Click pot 2 from the layer palette. Draw a rectangular selection and make the the layer pot 2 selected. Add a new raster layer. Airbrush size 30. Apply airbrush as shown below.

Adjust/ Blur/ Gaussian Blur 4. Deselect. Right click on raster layer 2 and merge it down.

Click the layer pot 3 and make it selected. Click on burn brush.  Settings below. Slightly brush the center of the ellipse. Keep it selected.

Click the Lighten/Darken brush. Settings below. Slightly brush the top part edge of the ellipse to give it a highlight look. Keep it selected.

Click on Effects/3D effects/ Cutout. Settings below. Apply cutout. Deselect.

Make the layer pot 2 selected. Click on lighten/darken brush. Apply highlights on the image. See image below. Keep it selected.

Click Effects/3D Effects/ Inner Bevel. Settings below. Click OK. Deselect.

Make the pot 1 selected. Lighten/ Darken Brush. Adjust the opacity to 75. Apply highlight on the image as shown below. Keep it selected.

Click on Effects/ 3D effects/ Cutout. Apply cutout. OK. Deselect

Click on the pen tool/ freehand. FS properties to black and no fill. Line style/ default/ size 1. Free hand draw a crack as shown on surface of the image. Apply drop shadow. Settings below. Merge the layers visible.

Click on Effects/ Texture Effects/ choose small stone. See settings below.

Click on Adjust/ Brightness and Contrast/ Clarify. OK.

You're done. Save it as a tube or a PSP file.