© Christina Gibbs - Feb. 11, 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.

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This tutorial was written using Paint Shop Pro 7.

You will need to download the Selections and save them to a folder of your choice. This includes all the selections, it also includes the flower on her hat, the necklace, the face incase you do not want to make your own and my curly hair tube.

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Ok start by opening a new image 450 x 450 on a transparent background.

Name your first layer shoe1, go to "selections" "load from disk" and open the shoe1.sel, fill with a color of your choice, I used #48525C go to "effects" "3d effects" "inner bevel" with these settings...



Deselect with (Ctrl-D) on your keyboard and on the same layer go to "selections" "load from disk" and open the shoe2.sel, fill with the same color, "effects" "3d effects" "inner bevel" with these settings



Deselect, add a new layer and name it hatback, "selections" "load from disk" and open the hatback.sel, fill with color or pattern of your choice, I used #DE7FA7, deselect, "selections" "load from disk" and open the hatbackshade.sel, go to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to -35 the contrast at 5. deselect. "selections" "load from disk" and open the hatbacklight.sel, "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" changing the brightness to 35. deselect.

Add a new layer and call it hair1, if you are using my hair selection open up the hair1.sel and fill with a color of your choice, I used #894F18, deselect..



If you are using my curlyhair tube then you need to open that up and go to "file" "export" "picture tube" and use these settings..

Cells Across = 3
Cells Down = 2
Total Cells = 6
Placement Mode = Continuous
Step Size = 30
Selection Mode = Incremental
Name it Curlyhair

Then close the curly hair image and and in your tool options pallet find the curlyhair tube and change the size to 25, add on your hair1 layer add some hair with the hair tube..



Add a new layer and call it neck, load the neck.sel and fill with skin color #F0C8B9, go to "selections" "float" and "effects" "3d effects" "cutout" with these settings... deselect.



Add a new layer and call it head, open the head.sel fill with the same skin color and "selections" "float" "effects" "3d effects" "cutout" with these settings. deselect.



On the same head layer go to "effects" "noise" and add 3% uniform noise.

Add a new layer and name it face, now you can use my face.psp file or you can draw a face on your own, if you use mine then open up the face.psp file and go to "edit" "copy" then back on your face layer go to "edit" "paste as a new selection" and line it up on her head. deselect...



Add a new layer and call it hair2, if you are using the selections instead of the tube then load the hair2.sel and fill with your hair color, I used #894F18 and deselect...



If you are using the tube then activate the curlyhair tube in your tool options pallet, I changed the size to 20 and add some hair on her head :-)



Add a new layer and name it pants, open the pants.sel fill with a color or pattern of your choice, I used #ECB8CB then while still selected I used the paint brush with these settings, and this color #EBE6E0



and added some dots on her pants...



but this is entirely up to you...

deselect and on the same layer load the pantsdark.sel go to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to -40 and deselect.
load the pantslight.sel and back to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to 40. deselect.

Add a new layer and call it leg1, load the leg1.sel and fill with the skin color #F0C8B9, go to "selections" "float" and "effects" "3d effects" "cutout" using the same settings as before but change the blur to 25. deselect and "effects" "noise" add 3% uniform noise. On this same layer load the leglines1.sel
and go to "selections" "modify" "feather" and change the number to 2. then go to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to -20. deselect.



Now we repeat these same steps for leg2, add a new layer, call it leg2, load the leg2.sel and fill with same color, "selections" "float" and "effects" "3d effects" "cutout" using the same settings. deselect and "effects" "noise" add 3% uniform noise. same layer load the leglines2.sel, "selections" "modify" and feather by 2 then "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" same settings as before..

deselect and add a new layer naming it sock1, open the sock1.sel fill with your choice, I used #EBE6E0, deselect and on the same layer load socklines1.sel, "selections" "modify" and feather by 2 then "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" changing brightness to -35 on the same layer load the sock1dark.sel and back to brightness/contrast changing the number to -30 deselect and load the sock1light.sel back to brightness/contrast change the number to 30. deselect.

Again repeat these steps for the other sock, add a new layer naming it sock2, open the sock2.sel fill with your choice, I used #EBE6E0, deselect and on the same layer load socklines2.sel, "selections" "modify" and feather by 2 then "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" changing brightness to -35
on the same layer load the sock2dark.sel and back to brightness/contrast changing the number to -30 deselect and load the sock2light.sel back to brightness/contrast change the number to 30. deselect.



I know these are an awful lot of steps just to shade something, you are more than welcome to shade this yourself with the paintbrush instead of using all my selections :-)

Add a new layer and name it shirt, load the shirt.sel fill with a color or pattern of your choice, I used the same color as her socks, I then used my paintbrush with the same settings as before and added some darker pink dots, this is up to you deselect and load the shirtdark.sel and go to "colors" "adjust" and brightness/contrast changing brightness to -30 deselect and load the shirtlight.sel, go back to brightness/contrast and change brightness to 30. deselect.



Add a new layer and name it collar, load the collar.sel fill with your color choice, I used #ECB8CB, and used my paintbrush again with same settings and same color as her shirt and socks and added more dots, up to you deselect and on same layer load the collardark.sel adjust the brightness to -40 and deselect load the collarlight.sel and adjust the brightness to 40 deselect. depending on the pattern or color you use you may need to adjust those numbers, but these are the ones I used. Unless of course you are shading this yourself :-)

Ok then... add a new layer and call it sleeve1, load the sleeve1.sel fill with same color, again I used the paintbrush with same settings and added dots... deselect and load the sleeve1dark.sel, adjust the brightness to -40 and deselect, load the sleeve1light.sel, adjust the brightness to 40 and deselect...

Add a new layer and call it hand1, load the hand1.sel fill with the skin color #F0C8B9, go to "selections" "float" and "effects" "3d effects" "cutout" with the same settings as before. deselect and "effects" "noise" add 3% uniform noise, same layer load the handlines1.sel go to "selections" "modify" and feather by 2, adjust the brightness to -30 and deselect...



Repeat these same steps for the other hand, Add a new layer and call it hand2, load the hand2.sel fill with the skin color #F0C8B9, go to "selections"
"float" and "effects" "3d effects" "cutout" with the same settings as before. deselect and "effects" "noise" add 3% uniform noise, same layer load the handlines2.sel go to "selections" "modify" and feather by 2, adjust the brightness to -25 and deselect...



Add a new layer and call it sleeve2, load the sleeve2.sel fill with the same color as your other sleeve, I used #ECB8CB and I used the paintbrush again to add more dots... deselect and same layer load the sleeve2dark.sel adjust the brightness to -40 and deselect same layer load the sleeve2light.sel
adjust the brightness to 40 and deselect.



Add a new layer and call it hattop, load the hattop.sel fill with your hat color, I used #DE7FA7, and deselect same layer load the hattopshade.sel and adjust the brightness to -35 and deselect same layer load the hattophighlight.sel and adjust the brightness to 35 and deselect.

Add a new layer and call it shoe2, load the shoe3.sel fill with the same color as your other shoe and go to "effects" "3d effects" "innerbevel" using these settings



on the same layer load the shoe4.sel and fill with same color back to inner bevel using these settings and deselect.



Add a new layer and call it necklace, you can make a necklace of your own or use my necklace.psp file, open it up and go to "edit" "copy" and back to your necklace layer go to "edit" "paste as a new selection" and line it up in her hands. deselect



I then went to "effects" "3d effects" and applied this drop shadow on the necklace

Vertical = 1
Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 30
Blur = 10
Color = Black

Add a new layer and call it hair3, you can use my hair3.sel and fill with the same hair color, deselect.

Or you can use my curly hair tube again, I changed the size to 20 and added some hair on the bottom, then changed the size to 10 and added more bangs.



If you want the rings you can now add a new layer named rings and open the ring1.sel and fill with white, I went to "effects" "texture" "sculpture" and applied the default gold preset or you can apply a Blade Pro gold filter, it's your choice. deselect and repeat the same for ring2.sel on the same layer.

If you want to use my flower, you can add another layer and open the flower.psp file and copy and paste it on the hat... I applied the same drop shadow on my flower..



And you are done!