A 3D box

Pixia in space ! As you'll see, the exercice is quiet simple. You'll just have to paste selections using free transformations.

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Drawing a side in 2D :

- Open a new canvas.

- make the visible side of the box : here, I filled a square with a green gradation and past the text two times (a yellow layer and under another white one stretched with the filter ["Outline" / "Stretch"] )

For more details : text's tutorial.

- When it's done, select it with a rectangular selection and copy it.

Preparation :

- Open a new canvas.

- Display the grid ["View" / "Grid"]
A dialog box appears. Choose the size of the squares and check the case : "Magnet"... This will hook your selections to the intersections, and will allow you to work with an extrem accuracy.

Temporary drawing of the box :

- Draw the box with the layout's tools :
Make several selection "line" ou "broken ligne" . Highline them as one goes along (be carefull to the pensize...).

(About the tool "Broken line " : to end the selection, just right-click.)

- This drawing just serve to give you some marks for the rest of the work. It will be clear at the end...

Preparation of the collage :

- Paste the visible side that you've made during the first stage...

- The picture appears on your canvas. Place it approximately where you wanna put it.

- Right-clic on it and select "Free transform".

Transform and apply a side :

- Move each handle at the selection's corners toward the box' corners...

- Right-clic on the selection and "Paste as new layer".

- That's all...

Seconde side :

- Proceed exactly the same way for the second visible side...

...Paste / Transform / paste as new layer...

The final layers' panel :
a layer for each element...

 

Download the file boite3d.pxa
550 Ko
It contains all the layers used in this tutorial
(and the first draw too !).

 

This tutorial has been done with the french's Pixia version by a "like a cow english speaker". So some Pixia's terms are wrong and some sentences should be incomprehensible...
Please, send me the corrections :
tiry_73@yahoo.com

Finishing :

1) Change the light on the visible sides :
- Use luminosity and contrast ["Image" / "Luminosity and contrast"], to brighten a side (darken the other one the same way, if you want).

2) Make the inner sides :
- Add a new layer for each inner side.
- Select a side with the selection "Polygon" and fill it with a required color (try some grey...).
- Proceed the same way for the other inner side.

(About the "Polygon" : to end and close the selection, just right-click.)

3) The shadow :
- Draw the bottom of the box with the selection "Polygon" and fill it with black...
- Apply a Massa's filter ["Motion Blur (Natural)"].
Settings : pixels = 50; choose the angle according to the opposite direction of the shadow.
- Lower the transparency's layer : about 50% (double-click the layer's name)

You can make a self-made shadow. You can draw it and blur it the way you want... There's no recipe...

4) More :
- Give a texture to each layer (except the shadow !) with the Gonta's filter ["Effects" / "Chaos"]...
- Be reasonable with the effects (luminosity, contrast, texture...). It really looks better when you work with light shades !

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