Fireplace

#1 Open a new image 400X400. This will give you extra room to work with, and we will be
croping the size when we are finished. Save this as a .pspimage and name it FIREPLACE.

#2 Choose a color that you would like for the fireplace, I am using a brown #834b2d,
and make your background color. Make your foreground NULL.
We will be working with layers, so SAVE ofen.

#3 Click on the Preset Shapes Tool and locate the Triangle, making sure Create as Vector
is UNchecked, make a large rectangle on your canvas.

#4 Go to Effects/Texture Effects/Texture and locate the BRICKS texture and use the settings below.

#5 Selections/Select all. Selections/Float. Effects/3D/Cutout and apply the settings below.

Selection/Select NONE. SAVE.
#6 Make a NEW Raster layer, click on the Preset Shapes Tool and make a narrow rectangle on top of your bricks,
over hanging the edges a little.. Use the DEFORM Tool, hold down the CONTROL key and clicking
on the lower right Node, slide it to the left. This will angle the bottom to make it look more like a shelf.

#7 Selections/Select all. Selections/Float. Effects/3D/Cutout and apply the same settings as above.

Selection/Select NONE. Merge/Merge Visible. SAVE. Name this layer FIREPLACE.

#8 Using the Rectangle Preset Shape, make a simple brick. I am using #808080 for my
background color, keeping the foreground NULL. Select all, Select/Float.
Use the CUTOUT but change the OPACITY to 50 and the BLUR to 10.
Repeat changing the VERTICAL & HORIZONTAL to -1 (MINUS 1). Select NONE.

#9 Duplicate the brick layer 6 times, giving you seven bricks. Stack these on top of
each other. Take your first brick and place it on TOP of your fireplace mantle,
as we will use that one later.

#10 Hide your fireplace layer and the top brick layer (the one you put on the top of the
fireplace). Making sure that one of your stacked bricks is highlighted, Merge/Merge Visible.
Move this new brick stack to the right.

#11 UNhide your fireplace and the extra brick. Highlight the brick and duplicate.
Place the copy on top of the brick. With the DEFORM Tool, pull the center Node and
pull the brick to the right to make it slightly longer than the original brick.

#12 Duplicate the long brick and place one on top
of one brick stack and the other on the other brick stack.

#13 Highlight the one small brick and duplicate this two times. Position these three bricks
between the two top, longer bricks. You will need to adjust and move the stacks if
necessary.When you get the bricks lined up, HIDE the Fireplace layer and MERGE VISIBLE.

You should now have two layers; Fireplace and Bricks.

#14 For the HEARTH, I changed my background color to a dark grey, #404040.
Make a NEW Raster layer, name it HEARTH. With the rectangle Preset Shape,
make a rectangle slightly bigger than the center of the BRICKS.

#15 Select All, Select/Float. This will make Marching Ants around the dark grey HEARTH.
Add a NEW Raster layer. Change your foreground color to BLACK. Click on the AIRBRUSH Tool
and using the settings below, add some black lines on the left and the right side of the HEARTH.

#16 Adjust/Blur/Guassian Blur with a Radius of 20. Depending on how thick you made your
black, you might need to adjust the Radius to a different setting. Select NONE.

#16 Highlight the Blur layer, Merge/Merge Down. This merges with the HEARTH layer.
LEFT click on the HEARTH layer and drag it below the BRICKS layer.

That is all there is to it. Now you can CROP it, resize it, Merge/Merge Visible and Export
it as a tube. You can now decorate it as you wish.

Fireplace

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