66. Create a new layer and rename it to “Castle roof”. Grab the Rectangular Marquee tool. Click, hold, and drag out a rectangle to be used as a roof for a section of the castle. Click the paint bucket tool and fill this layer then deselect.
67. Add some layer styles. First, we get a pattern overlay of something that looks like roof tiles, shingles, or wooden planks (I use “red shingle roof” in the zip file) at a scale of 15%. I like my rich people to live under copper roofs so I add a color overlay of blue, hex code 004064 (RGB 0, 64, 100) set to color mode. This is too dark and so I add an inner glow of white; mode is screen at 25% opacity and size is 30. Next, I add an inner bevel, chisel soft, size is 21, angle is -45, altitude is 30, highlight mode is white at screen 50% opacity. Now it looks like weathered copper. Lastly, I'll add a 2-pixel black stroke to the outside.
68. If you want to rotate the castle then link the Castle layer and Castle tower layer and merge them together then link to the castle roof layer. You do this by looking at the layer stack, click on the castle layer, you will see an eye and a paintbrush, directly above the paintbrush is the Castle tower layer but it has an empty box instead of a paintbrush. If you click in the empty box a chain will appear...the layers are now linked together. Merge down (ctrl+e) and rename the layer to “Castle”. Click on the Castle roof layer and link it to the Castle layer. Now you can rotate and preserve any bevel properties on the roof (highlight and shadow) but not pattern, it always stays oriented to the page unless rasterized (the layer style has to become part of the layer itself instead of just being an effect). When we merged our Castle and Castle tower layers this rasterized the layer styles and allows us to rotate the castle and since our roof is linked but not merged the bevel will retain its orientation to the sun.
NOTES: I used a red cedar roof texture, which I darkened to give it a more weathered feel. I used a bevel to give it the appearance of shape.
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