Mesh Warp Curtains
by kim@pixelbit.com

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Open a new image 600 X 300 transparent.

Select your pen tool with the settings shown below.

In your color palette, set the foreground to the pattern of your choice, the background to null.

Draw a horizontal line the full width of the image.

Make the selection tool active. Copy (CTRL + C), press your delete key and paste as a new layer (CTRL + L)
Make your Mesh Warp tool active.

Horizontal set to 9, Vertical set to 6.

Select the node shown below and push it up slightly as shown.

Select the node under that one your just moved and push it up so that it meets the one on the row above it.
Continue until all of the nodes in that column (the ones that are actually over the image) meet in the same spot, as shown.

Skip two columns and repeat on the third column.

Skip two, repeat on the third.

Activate your selection tool, copy and paste as a new image (CTRL + V) and set this new image aside for now.

Back to your original image. Press your delete key to clear your image.
Make your pen tool active.
change the line width to 200 and make another horizontal line the full width of your image.

Make your Mesh Warp active. Change the horizontal from 9 to 1.

Using the same method as in the previous steps, Push all of the nodes up as shown.

On the LEFT side only, push the nodes up but, this time they are not going to meet.
We are only making the left side narrower then the right side.

Make your selection tool active. Copy.

make a new image 600 X 600 transparent.

Paste as a new layer. Rotate 90 degrees to the left.

With your mover tool, slide your image to the left side.

Duplicate this layer and mirror. Merge Visible
Make your valance image active (the one you set aside earlier), copy.
Make your main image active and paste as a new layer

Make a new layer named back.

In your layer palette, move the back layer to the bottom.
Fill with the same pattern that you used to make the curtains
Lower the opacity to about 40%

Make the curtains layer active

Apply Drop shadow using the settings shown below.

Repeat the drop shadow changing the Vertical to -3.

make your back layer active. Select the tube that you would like to use and paste as a new layer.
Merge > flatten
Done.
I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial.
if you have any comments or questions, feel free to email me at:
kim@pixelbit.com