I made this tutorial with PSP7 and Eye Candy 4000
1. Open 300x300 transparant Background.....add new layer, call it head
2. set your Foreground colour to dark brown and your Background colour to middle brown
Set your Background to Foreground/Background gradient ...( see image below)
3. Preset shapes set to Ellipse, Antialias and Vector checked, line width 2
Draw an ellipse for the head....
4. Convert layer to raster
5. Select all....select float
6. Effects....Noise....Add 5 uniform.......deselet
7. Go to effects look for your Eye Candy 4000
8. Apply the jiggle plugin with the settings shown below
9. Preset shapes set to Ellipse, Antialias and Vector checked, line width 2
Draw an ellipse for the ear...turn it slightly ...move the ear into position
Go to layers ...Arrange....send to bottom
10. Convert layer to raster
11. Select all....select float
12. Effects....Noise....Add 5 uniform.......deselet
13. Go to effects look for your Eye Candy 4000
14. Apply the jiggle plugin with the same settings
15. Duplicate the ear layer and mirror...put the second ear into position
16. Turn off Foreground colour
Change the Background colour to light brown put it on solid
Go to the face layer
Draw a small elipse for the muzzle
Convert to raster layer
Apply Eye Candy Jiggle same settings as we used before
17. Set Background to black
Set preset shapes at triangle, keep the rest of the settings as before
Draw a small triangle starting at the bottom going up
You might want to zoom in, to see the nodes better..
18. Click on the object selector
In the tool options box click node edit
Right click on a node, go to node types and change it into a symmetric node
Do the same with the other two nodes to give the nose a rounded look
You can shorten the angles of the nodes if you think it's too round though
19. Add a new layer for the eyes
Go to preset shapes....put it back to elipse vector unchecked
Draw a small circle for one eye if the size is what you want it to be
Duplicate and mirror the eye....move the second eye into position
20. Add another layer....switch background to foreground
Go to the drawing tool..freehand line width 2
Draw a tiny line beneath the nose
21. Add another layer switch foreground back to background
Draw a tiny elipse for the mouth
22. Set Foreground colour to #FF8080.... close Background colour
Activate the ear layer and add another layer
Go to airbrush and spray a little on the ear near the head
Effects ...Blur...Gaussian Blur of 1.00
23. We are going to add the tag....this is the easy part...:)
Add another layer... go to preset shapes
Settings..rectangle..all three boxes unchecked...line width 1 solid line
Foreground colour closed...Background colour #999796
Draw a rectangle about 180 pixels width and 85 pixels height
Go to selections ..select all...selections float...modify and contract by 2.00
Change Foreground colour to #BCBCBC....close background....floodfill selection
Modify and contract by 2.00 again
Change Foreground colour to #EDE3E3 floodfill selection
Modify and contract by 2.00 again
Change Foreground colour to #FFFFFF and floodfill selection
Drag this layer to the bottom of the layer palette
This is what we should have right now...:))
24. Go back to the top layer of your layer palette and add another layer
Set your Foreground colour to the dark brown colour of the little palette on top
Set your Background colour to the middle brown colour
Set your Background to Foreground/Background gradient same setting as before
Preset shapes set to Ellipse, Antialias checked, line width 2
Draw a little ellipse for the paw....
Select all....select float
Effects....Noise....Add 5 uniform.......deselect
Go to effects look for your Eye Candy 4000
Apply the jiggle plugin with the same settings we used before
When you are happy with the way your paw looks duplicate the layer
Mirror and put the second paw into position
24. Merge all layers visible..
Our Tagbear is done... you can add a little graphic or text to the Tag
fitting the season or occasion....
Always add things on a separate layer though
Save in PSP format if you plan on using the tag more often..
25. If you plan on saving in gif format see screen below
This will give you the best result...:))
That was all folks for today...:))
Hope you had fun
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Moodswing 23-05-2002
