© Christina Gibbs - November 22, 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 was made using Paint Shop Pro 7

You will need to download the selections and save them in a folder of your choice, included in the zip file is the candle if you would like to use that.

This has over 90 selections, remember to save often :-)

Here are the tiles we will use.

Here are the colors we will use.

Open a new image width=600 height=500 on a transparent background

Go to Selections - Load from disk and browse to the folder you saved these selections into and load the 1-hands.sel, fill this with the "brown" tile and deselect.

On the same layer load the 2-hands.sel and go to Colors - Adjust - Brightness/Contrast changing the brightness to -65 and the contrast to 0 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer (Layers - New raster layer) and load the 3-hands.sel, fill this with the "darkbrown" tile and deselect.

On the same layer load the 4-hands.sel and adjust the brightness again (Shift + B) using the same settings and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 5-coat.sel and fill with the red color #1 and deselect.

On the same layer load the 6-coat.sel and adjust the brightness using the same settings and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 7-coat.sel, fill with the color #2 and deselect. On the same layer load the 8-coat.sel and adjust the brightness using the same settings and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 9-tree.sel and fill with the color #6 and deselect.

On the same layer load the 10-tree.sel and fill with the #7 color and deselect.

On the same layer load the 11-tree.sel and adjust the brightness using the same settings and deselect.

On the same layer load the 12-tree.sel and fill with the #8 color and deselect.

On the same layer load the 13-tree.sel and fill with the #7 color and deselect.

On the same layer load the 14-tree.sel and fill with the #4 color and deselect.

On the same layer load the 15-tree.sel and fill with the #3 color and deselect....

Add a new raster layer and load the 16-foot.sel and fill with the "brown" tile and deselect.

On the same layer load the 17-foot.sel and adjust the brightness same settings and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 18-foot.sel, fill with the "darkbrown" tile and deselect.

On the same layer load the 19-foot.sel and adjust the brightness same settings and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 20-pants.sel and fill with the #2 color and deselect.

On the same layer load the 21-pants.sel and adjust the brightness using the same -65 settings and deselect.

On the same layer load the 22-pants.sel and adjust the brightness again changing the brightness to 70 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 23-foot.sel and fill with the "brown" tile and deselect.

On the same layer load the 24-foot.sel and adjust the brightness = -65 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 25-foot.sel and fill with the "darkbrown" tile and deselect.

On the same layer load the 26-foot.sel and adjust the brightness = -65 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 27-pants.sel, fill with the #2 color and deselect.

On the same layer load the 28-pants.sel and adjust the brightness = -65 and deselect.

On the same layer load the 29-pants.sel and adjust the brightness = 70 and deselect...

Add a new raster layer and load the 30-bunny.sel, fill with the "gray" tile and then go to Selections - Invert and then Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow with the settings below and deselect.

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 16
Color = White

Add a new raster layer and load the 31-bunny.sel, fill with the same tile and then Selections - Invert and use a drop shadow with these settings and deselect.

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 33
Color = White

Add a new raster layer and load the 32-bunny.sel and fill with the "white" tile, then Selections - Invert and use a drop shadow with the settings below and deselect.

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 80
Blur = 22
Color = #808080

Add a new raster layer and load the 33-bunny.sel and fill with the "gray" tile, selections - invert and use a drop shadow with the settings below and deselect.

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 21
Color = White

Add a new raster layer and load the 34-bunny.sel, fill with the "gray" tile, selections - invert and use a drop shadow with the settings below and deselect.

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 31
Color = White

Add a new raster layer and load the 35-bunny.sel, fill with the "white" tile, selections - invert and drop shadow with the settings below and deselect.

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 80
Blur = 11
Color = #808080

Add a new raster layer, load the 36-bunny.sel and fill with the "gray" tile, selections - invert and use a drop shadow with these settings and deselect.

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 21
Color = White

Add a new layer, load the 37-bunny.sel and fill with the same "gray" tile, selections - invert and use the same drop shadow.

Add a new layer, load the 38-bunny.sel and fill with the same gray tile, selections - invert and use a drop shadow with the settings below and deselect.

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 30
Color = White

Add a new raster layer and load the 39-bunny.sel, fill with the "white" tile and selections - invert and use a drop shadow with these settings and deselect.

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 80
Blur = 23
Color = #808080

Add a new raster layer and load the 40-bunny.sel, fill with black and deselect.

On the same layer load the 41-bunny.sel and fill with white, deselect.

On the same layer load the 42-bunny.sel and fill with #DC6666 and deselect....

Add a new raster layer and open the 43-lamp.sel, fill with black and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and open the candle.psp included in the zip file, copy and paste this on a new layer and then open the flame.psp file and paste that on the same layer...

Add a new raster layer and load the 44-glass.sel, do not fill this, go to Effects - 3D effects - Cutout with the setting below and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 45-lamp.sel, fill with black and go to Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel with the settings below and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 46-lamp.sel, fill with black and use an Inner Bevel with the settings below and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 47-lamp.sel, fill with #808080 and deselect.

Add a new layer and load the 48-lamp.sel, fill with black and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 49-hand.sel, fill with the "brown" tile and deselect.

On the same layer load the 50-hand.sel and adjust the brightness = -65 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 51-coat.sel, fill with the #2 color and deselect.

On the same layer load the 52-coat.sel and adjust the brightness = -65 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 53-coat.sel, fill with the #1 color and deselect.

On the same layer load the 54-coat.sel and adjust the brightness = -75 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 55-coat.sel, fill with the same color #1 and deselect.

On the same layer load the 56-coat.sel and adjust the brightness = -75 and deselect.

On the same layer load the 57-coat.sel and adjust the brightness = 75 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 58-coat.sel, fill with the same #1 color and deselect.

On the same layer load the 59-coat.sel and adjust the brightness = -75 and deselect.

On the same layer load the 60-coat.sel and adjust the brightness = 75 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 61-coat.sel, fill with the same #1 color and deselect.

On the same layer load the 62-coat.sel and adjust the brightness = -75 and deselect.

On the same layer load the 63-coat.sel and adjust the brightness = 75 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 64-coat.sel, fill with the same #1 color and deselect.

On the same layer load the 65-coat.sel and adjust the brightness = -75 and deselect.

On the same layer load the 66-coat.sel and adjust the brightness = 75 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 67-coat.sel, fill with the #2 color and deselect.

On the same layer load the 68-coat.sel and adjust the brightness = -65 and deselect.

On the same layer load the 69-coat.sel and adjust the brightness = 75 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 70-coat.sel, fill with the same #2 color and deselect.

On the same layer load the 71-coat.sel and adjust the brightness = -65 and deselect.

On the same layer load the 72-coat.sel and adjust the brightness = 75 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 73-coat.sel, fill with the color #1, do not deselect, go to Selections - Modify - Contract = 4 and then adjust the brightness = 75 and deselect...

Add a new raster layer and load the 74-ear.sel, fill this with the "lightbrown" tile and deselect.

On the same layer load the 75-ear.sel and adjust the brightness = -65 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 76-head.sel, fill with the "brown" tile and deselect.

On the same layer load the 77-head.sel and adjust the brightness = -65 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 78-head.sel, fill with the "lightbrown" tile and deselect.

On the same layer load the 79-head.sel and adjust the brightness = -65 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 80-ear.sel, fill with the same "lightbrown" tile and deselect.

On the same layer load the 81-ear.sel and adjust the brightness = -65 and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and open the 82-mouth.sel, fill this with black and deselect.

On the same layer load the 83-nose.sel, fill with black and deselect.

On the same layer load the 84-eye.sel, fill with black and deselect.

On the same layer load the 85-eye-nose.sel, fill this with white and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 86-bells.sel, fill with #C49A56 and deselect. Go to Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout with the settings below.

On the same layer load the 87-bells.sel and adjust the brightness = -65 and deselect.

On the same layer load the 88-bells.sel and fill with #D1B17F and deselect.

Add a new raster layer and load the 89-poles.sel, fill with black and deselect. Go to Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel and choose "Round" from the drop down menu, change the angle to 45 and leave the rest the same.

Add a new raster layer and load the 90-patch.sel, fill with the #1 color and deselect.

On the same layer load the 91-patch.sel and adjust the brightness = -65 and deselect.

On the same layer load the 92-stitches.sel and fill with white, deselect and you are finished!