Teddy Bear Tutorial

© Christina Gibbs - April 15, 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 is the tile I used for the fur. Save this and open it in PSP.

Open a new image 400 x 450 on a transparent background

Name your first layer legs Go to "selections" "load from disk" and open the legs.sel fill with the fur tile and deselect.

On the same layer, "selections" "load from disk" and open the legs_shade.sel, go to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to -100, deselect

On the same layer, "selections" "load from disk" and open the legs_light.sel, go to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to 100, deselect

Go to "effects" "plugins" "eyecandy" "jiggle" with these settings

Add a new raster layer and name it body Go to "selections" "load from disk" and open the body.sel fill with the fur tile and deselect.

On the same layer, "selections" "load from disk" and open the body_shade.sel, go to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to -100, deselect

On the same layer, "selections" "load from disk" and open the body_light.sel, go to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to 100, deselect

Go to "effects" "plugins" "eyecandy" "jiggle" with the same settings

Add a new raster layer and name it arm1 Go to "selections" "load from disk" and open the arm1.sel fill with the fur tile and deselect.

On the same layer, "selections" "load from disk" and open the arm1_shade.sel, go to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to -100, deselect

On the same layer, "selections" "load from disk" and open the arm1_light.sel, go to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to 100, deselect

Go to "effects" "plugins" "eyecandy" "jiggle" with the same settings

Add a new raster layer and name it arm2 Go to "selections" "load from disk" and open the arm2.sel fill with the fur tile and deselect.

On the same layer , "selections" "load from disk" and open the arm2_shade.sel, go to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to -100, deselect

On the same layer, "selections" "load from disk" and open the arm2_light.sel, go to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to 100, deselect

Go to "effects" "plugins" "eyecandy" "jiggle" with the same settings

Add a new raster layer and name it ears Go to "selections" "load from disk" and open the ears.sel fill with the fur tile and deselect.

On the same layer, "selections" "load from disk" and open the ears_shade.sel, go to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to -100, deselect

On the same layer, "selections" "load from disk" and open the ears_light.sel, go to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to 100, deselect

Go to "effects" "plugins" "eyecandy" "jiggle" with the same settings

Add a new raster layer and name it head Go to "selections" "load from disk" and open the head.sel fill with the fur tile and deselect.

On the same layer , "selections" "load from disk" and open the head_shade.sel, go to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to -100, deselect

On the same layer, "selections" "load from disk" and open the head_light.sel, go to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to 100, deselect

Go to "effects" "plugins" "eyecandy" "jiggle" with the same settings

Add a new raster layer and name it muzzle Go to "selections" "load from disk" and open the muzzle.sel fill with the fur tile and deselect. 

On the same layer, "selections" "load from disk" and open the muzzle_shade.sel, go to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to -100, deselect

On the same layer, "selections" "load from disk" and open the muzzle_light.sel, go to "colors" "adjust" "brightness/contrast" and change the brightness to 100, deselect

Go to "effects" "plugins" "eyecandy" "jiggle" with the same settings

Still on the muzzle layer, "selections" "load from disk" and open the mouth.sel adjust the brightness -100 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and name it nose Go to "selections" "load from disk" and open the nose.sel fill this with black and go to "effects" "3d effects" "inner bevel" using these settings and deselect

I went to "effects" "blur" "gaussian blur" and applied a blur of 1 on the nose layer.

Add a new raster layer and name it eyes Go to "selections" "load from disk" and open the eyes_white.sel fill this with white and deselect.

On the same layer , "selections" "load from disk" and open the eyes_black.sel, fill with black and go to "effects" "3d effects" "inner bevel" using the same settings and deselect

I went to "effects" "blur" "gaussian blur" and applied a blur of 1 on the eyes layer too.

I applied this drop shadow on the eyes

Vertical = -2
Horizontal = 2
Opacity = 100
Blur = 3.5
Color = Black

And you are done!

I added a layer between the arms and gave my bears a heart and some flowers to hold :-)