Doodle Mrs. Claus

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For this tutorial you will need to have basic knowledge of Paint Shop Pro. (My illustrations and instructions are written using version 7, but you should be able to comprehend with any version).

SAVE YOUR WORK OFTEN!

****VERY IMPORTANT****
In this tutorial, you will need to Merge, Merge Visible a couple of times. It is very important that you hide any layers you do NOT wish to merge together by clicking on the little eye glasses next to those layer(s). Once you've merged the layers you wish, you can then unhide the layer(s) not included in the merged layers.

Colors we will be using for this tutorial (but you may use any colors of your choice in place of these):



Open up a new transparent canvas. 100 X 100. Paint brush setting at size 1. Below is an outline of the Doodle Mrs. Claus Body Base. Please right click and save to your computer. Open in Animation Shop. Click Edit, then click Copy. Open your PSP. Click Edit and then click paste.....as New Layer.



Fill:

Hair, showing to your left- Activate Magic wand . Click inside hair, showing to your left side. Flood fill with White (#FFFFFF). Click Selections, then click Float. Click Effects, 3D Effects, Cut Outs using these settings:
Vertical 1
Horizontal -1
Opacity 100%
Blur 3.8
Shadow color - Lt. Gray (#C0C0C0)
Fill Interior with color box UNCHECKED. Deselect.

Hair, showing to your right- Activate Magic wand . Click inside hair, showing to your right side. Flood fill with White (#FFFFFF). Click Selections, then click Float. Click Effects, 3D Effects, Cut Outs using these settings:
Vertical 1
Horizontal 1
Opacity 100%
Blur 3.8
Shadow color - Lt. Gray (#C0C0C0)
Fill Interior with color box UNCHECKED. Deselect.

Hair bun- Activate Magic wand . Click inside hair bun. Flood fill with White (#FFFFFF). Click Selections, then click Float. Click Effects, 3D Effects, Cut Outs using these settings:
Vertical -1
Horizontal 0
Opacity 100%
Blur 3.8
Shadow color - Lt. Gray (#C0C0C0)
Fill Interior with color box UNCHECKED. Deselect.

Body- Activate Magic wand . Click inside the body of Mrs. Claus. Flood fill with Lt. peach color (#F8D6BD). Click Selections, then click Float. Click Effects, 3D Effects, Cut Outs using these settings:
Vertical 1
Horizontal 0
Opacity 100%
Blur 10
Shadow color - Dk peach (#E5AD94)
Fill Interior with color box UNCHECKED. Deselect.

Head- Activate Magic wand . Click inside the head of Mrs. Claus. Flood fill with Lt. peach color (#F7D6BD). Click Selections, then click Float. Click Effects, 3D Effects, Cut Outs using these settings:

Vertical 1
Horizontal 0
Opacity 100%
Blur 5
Shadow color - Dk peach (#E7AD94)
Fill Interior with color box UNCHECKED. DO NOT DESELECT!!!!

Open a new Raster Layer and name it blush. With your blush color (#FF8080), pixel in her blush on her cheeks. See placement illustration below:



Click on Effects, Blur, Gaussian blur with a Radius of 1.00 Deselect. Merge. Merge Visible.

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Open a New Raster Layer and Name it Dress.

Dress Outline:



Fill:

Activate Magic wand . Click inside dress. Flood fill with Lt. Red (#FF4040). Click Selections, then click Float. Click Effects, 3D Effects, Cut Outs using these settings:

Vertical 1
Horizontal 0
Opacity 100%
Blur 15
Shadow color - Dk Red (#800000)
Fill Interior with color box UNCHECKED. DO NOT DESELECT!

Open a new Raster Layer and name it Pleats. Draw pleats on front of dress. See illustration:



Click on Effects, Blur, Gaussian Blur with a Radius of .85 Deselect. At this point, hide your body base layer and have only the dress and pleat layer showing. Merge, Merge Visible. Now you can unhide your other layer.

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Open a New Raster Layer and Name it Apron.

Apron Outline:



Activate Magic wand . While pressing down on your Shift key, click inside all areas of apron . Flood fill with White (#FFFFFF). Deselect. (There are no cutouts with the apron).

Now, with your mover tool, line up all your layers so the apron and dress is where they should be. Merge. Merge Visible.

To save your graphic(s) with a transparent background, click Edit, then click on Copy. Open up your Animation Shop. Click Edit, then click on Paste....as a new animation. Save as a gif from there and you're finished!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial!



~Tutorial created 10/04/06~