© Alicia's Place Birdhouse

For this tutorial you will need Paint Shop Pro 7 and this zip file

Unzip the selections on your PSP selections folder, if you don't have it you'll need to create one, and open the pictures in your PSP window.

1. Open a new image 540x540 transparent, add a new layer, name it back, go to Selections>Load from disk>back.sel, flood fill with color #CD7777, now change your color to #FDF0D3, open the textures palette, choose Woodgrain and flood fill twice.
(NOTE: If you are flood filling with the foreground color the texture has to be on top, for the background color the texture has to be on bottom, see example)

2. Add a new layer, name the layer body, go to Selections>Load from disk>body.sel, flood fill with color #EFB4B0, change color to #CFBF9E and flood fill with the same texture but this time do it twice.
3. Add a new layer, name it top1, go to Selections>Load from disk>top1.sel, change your color palette to pattern choose the aliwoodpattern with the following settings, flood fill.

4. Add a new layer, name it top2, go to Selections>Load from disk>top2.sel, flood fill with the same pattern, but this time change the Angle to 55. Add a drop shadow: Color black, Vertical & Horizontal "7", Opacity "60" and Blur "3.5". With the selections tool: Rectangle, Feather "0", Antialias checked draw a small rectangle on the bottom of the shadow and click the delete key:

5. Add a new layer, name it top3, go to Selections>Load from disk>top3.sel, flood fill with the pattern with the Angle 325, add a drop shadow: Color black, Horizontal and Vertical "0", Opacity "60" and Blur "2.2".
6. Add a new layer, name it top4, go to Selections>Load from disk>top4.sel, flood fill with the pattern with the Angle 55, add a drop shadow with the same settings.
7. Add a new layer, name it top5, go to Selections>Load from disk>top5.sel, flood fill with the pattern with the Angle 0, go to Colors>Adjust>Gamma Correction and set it to 0.76, move this layer under top1 layer.
8. Add a new layer, name it top6, go to Selections>Load from disk>top6.sel, flood fill with the pattern Angle 0, go to Colors>Adjust>Gamma Correction and set it to 0.52, move this layer under body layer.
9. Add a new layer, name it top7, go to Selections>Load from disk>top7.sel, flood fill with the pattern Angle 0, do not deselect, with the airbrush color #6C5636, Shape: Round, Size: 25, Hardness: 90, Opacity: 40, Step: 40 and Density: 26, spray a little bit on the sides, change the color to #CFBF9E and spray just a couple times on the middle.
10. Add a new layer, name it top8, go to Selections>Load from disk>top8.sel, flood fill with the aliwoodpattern2 Angle 0, do not deselect, with the airbrush same settings but this time change on the bottom to texture and put the woodgrain texture and spray on the sides, move that layer on top of the body layer.
11. Add a new layer, name it top9, go to Selections>Load from disk>top9.sel, and repeat step 9.
12. Add a new layer, name it top10, go to Selections>Load from disk>top10.sel, and repeat step 10.
13. Add a new layer, name it top11, go to Selections>Load from disk>top11.sel, and repeat step 9.
14. Add a new layer, name it top12, go to Selections>Load from disk>top12.sel, and repeat step 10, only this time change the Angle to 10 on the aliwoodpattern.

Now is time to merge the layers visible, but first make sure they are in the right order:

15. Add a new layer, name it chime1, go to Selections>Load from disk>chime1.sel, flood fill with the alicuadros pattern, Angle 7.
16. Add a new layer, name it chime2, go to Selections>Load from disk>chime2.sel, flood fill with the same pattern and same angle, go to Colors>Adjust>Gamma correction and apply 0.64.
17. Add a new layer, name it chime3, go to Selections>Load from disk>chime3.sel, flood fill with #CD7777, change your color to #CFBF9E, open the textures palette, choose Woodgrain and flood fill two times, go to Colors>Adjust>Gamma correction and apply 0.68, add a drop shadow: Color black, Horizontal "0", Vertical "4", Opacity "60" and Blur "4.7".
18. Add a new layer, name it chime4, go to Selections>Load from disk>chime4.sel, flood fill with #CD7777, change the color to #CFBF9E and flood fill with the texture only once, add a drop shadow same settings as step 17.

Turn off visibility of your merged layer and merge this 4 layers visible.
With your selections tool same settings as before, draw a rectangle around the top of the chimney and click inside, only the half top should be selected, go to selections defloat.

Add a new layer and move it under the chimney layer and apply a drop shadow: Vertical "0", Horizontal "-11", Opacity "60" and Blur "12.9", deselect.

Merge your layers visible.

20. Add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>white.sel, using the airbrush: Color white, Shape "Round", Size "40", Hardness "90", Opacity "40", Step "40" and Density "26" paint inside the selection, do not deselect, add a new layer, change the color to #9EB2DA, airbrush same settings only change the Size to "20" and paint around the white, if you think you have too much of blue on any place, change the color to white and paint on top of the blue. Change the color to #CD7777 and the size back to 40 and paint the chicks. Turn off visibility of your merged layer and merge this 2 layers visible.

21. Add a new layer, go to Selections>Load from disk>eyes.sel, flood fill with black and apply an Inner bevel, round preset just change the Angle to "0", apply the Inner bevel twice. Go to selections>load from disk>pico.sel, flood fill with #DEAB3B, apply Inner bevel with the following settings:

Go to Selections>Load from disk>pico1.sel and flood fill with black.

22. Add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>hole.sel, flood fill the same way as step 1, go to Selections>Load from disk>hole1.sel and flood fill with black.

23. For the nest, add a new layer and with the donut preset on your foreground and nothing on your background, draw lines using the draw tool: Freehand Line, Size "5" and Antialias checked and then apply Inner bevel with the following settings:

Merge all layers visible, on a new layer using the rope tube size 30 draw the rope on top; and with the preset shape: Ellipse, antialias checked, size 4 foreground color white draw a little circle and apply a gold preset with BladePro.

Your birdhouse its ready, now you can decorate it the way you want it, if you want to put the sign like mine, I have included in the zip file the chains.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, if you have any questions or comments please email me

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