© Christina Gibbs - September 16, 2002 - www.tcgibbs.com
This tutorial may not be copied and placed on another site without my written permission.
The image you create by following this tutorial belongs to you and you may do whatever you want with that.

This tutorial was written using Paint Shop Pro 7.

** German Translation . . . by Monika, and hosted here.  Thank you, Monika. **

You will need to download these selections and save them in a folder of your choice.

Here are the fur patterns we will be using, save these and minimize them in psp.

Open a new image 325 x 550 on a transparent background.

Go to SELECTIONS - LOAD FROM DISK and browse to the folder you saved the selections into and open the 1-neck.sel. Fill this selection with the fur.jpg and deselect. On the same layer open the 1-neck-shade.sel and go to COLORS - ADJUST - BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST changing the brightness to -65 and the contrast should be at 0. Deselect.

Go to LAYERS - NEW RASTER LAYER and then SELECTIONS - LOAD FROM DISK and open the 2-legs.sel, fill with the same fur pattern and deselect. On the same layer open the 2-legs-shade.sel and COLORS - ADJUST - BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST using the same settings and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and open the 3-pants.sel, fill with #A16767 and while still selected go to SELECTIONS - INVERT and then EFFECTS - 3D EFFECTS - DROP SHADOW with the settings below, deselect.

Vertical = -3
Horizontal = -3
Opacity = 80
Blur = 33.3
Color = #483030

Add a new raster layer and open the 4-skirt.sel, fill with #E7CFCF and deselect. On the same layer open the 4-skirt-shade.sel and fill with #A16767, deselect. On the same layer open the 4-skirt-highlight.sel and fill with white, deselect. Still on the same layer open the 5-trim.sel and fill with white, deselect.

Add a new raster layer and open the 6-arms.sel, fill with the same fur.jpg and deselect. On the same layer open the 6-arms-shade.sel and adjust the brightness using the same settings, deselect.

Add a new raster layer and open the 7-arms.sel, fill this selection with the fur-light.jpg and deselect. On the same layer open the 7-arms-shade.sel and adjust the brightness using the same settings, deselect.

Add a new raster layer and open the 8-sleeves.sel, fill with #E7CFCF and deselect. On the same layer open the 8-sleeves-shade.sel and fill with #A16767 and deselect. On the same layer open the 8-sleeves-highlight.sel, fill with white and deselect. Still on the same layer open the 9-trim.sel, fill with white and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and open the 10-top.sel, fill with white and deselect. Go to EFFECTS - 3D EFFECTS - CUTOUT using the settings below.

On the same layer open the 11-trim.sel and fill with white, deselect.

Add a new raster layer and open the 12-ears.sel, fill with the fur-light.jpg and deselect. On the same layer open the 12-ears-shade.sel and adjust the brightness using the same settings and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and open the 13-head.sel, fill with the other fur.jpg and deselect, on the same layer open the 13-head-shade.sel and adjust the brightness with the same settings and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and open the 14-eyes.sel, fill with black and deselect. Go to EFFECTS - 3D EFFECTS - INNER BEVEL using the settings below.

Add a new raster layer and open the 15-muzzle.sel, fill with the fur-light.jpg and deselect. On the same layer open the 15-muzzle-shade.sel and adjust the brightness using the same settings and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and open the 16-bow.sel, fill this with white and go to SELECTIONS - INVERT and then use a drop shadow with the settings below and deselect.

Vertical = -3
Horizontal = -3
Opacity = 100
Blur = 18.5
Color = #A16767

On the same layer open the 17-bow.sel and fill with white, SELECTIONS - INVERT and use the same drop shadow. Deselect.

On the same layer open the 18-bow.sel and fill with #B78B8B and deselect.

Still on the same layer open the 19-bow.sel and fill with white, SELECTIONS - INVERT and use the same drop shadow, deselect.

Add a new raster layer and open the 20-mouth.sel, fill with black and deselect. On the same layer open the 21-nose.sel, fill with black and go to EFFECTS - 3D EFFECTS - INNER BEVEL using the same settings as before and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and open the 22-shoe.sel, fill with white and deselect. Go to EFFECTS - 3D EFFECTS - CUTOUT using the same settings as before. On the same layer open the 23-shoes.sel and fill with #E7CFCF deselect.

Add a new raster layer and open the 24-bow.sel, fill with white, selections - invert and use a drop shadow with the same settings as before, deselect.

On the same layer open the 25-bow.sel, fill with white, selections - invert and the same drop shadow, deselect.

On the same layer open the 26-bow.sel and fill with #B78B8B, deselect.

Still on the same layer open the 27-bow.sel, fill with white, selections - invert and use the same drop shadow changing the blur to about 13. Deselect.

Add a new raster layer and open the 28-shoe.sel, fill with white and deselect. Go to EFFECTS - 3D EFFECTS - CUTOUT using the same settings as before. On the same layer open the 29-shoe.sel and fill with #E7CFCF deselect.

Add a new raster layer and open the 30-bow.sel, fill with white, selections - invert and use the same drop shadow changing the blur to 18.

On the same layer open the 31-bow.sel, fill with white, selections - invert and the same drop shadow, deselect.

On the same layer open the 32-bow.sel and fill with #B78B8B, deselect.

Still on the same layer open the 33-bow.sel, fill with white, selections - invert and use the same drop shadow changing the blur to about 13. Deselect.

You are finished!!