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Shop Pro 6
Before you start, you need to download a couple of things - my raisin tube and my gingerbread men selections. The selections can be unzipped into any folder you like - they don't have to be kept in a special folder like the tubes. I have created a folder within my Paint Shop Pro folder called Selections where I keep them all. |
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1.  Create a New Image, 300x400
pixels with a white background. |
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2. On the Layers Palette, choose New
Layer. In the Layer Properties dialogue box that now appears,
give the layer a sensible name - we're going to use this layer to hold our
gingerbread man, so I'm going to call mine Gingerbread Man. |
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3. Go to Selections/Load from Disk...
and choose one of the selections that you have downloaded (two.sel and
bear.sel are my favourites!)You should now have a "marching
ants" outline of a gingerbread man on your canvas. |
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4. Change your foreground colour to R:195
G:139 B:79 and Flood Fill your selection. Drop the selection (Selections/Select
None or CTRL+D) |
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5. Create a new layer and call it Raisin
Eyes. Using my Little Raisin tube, place 2 little eyes on your
gingerbread mans face. Now, using the Selection tool, draw a
rectangular selection around the eyes.  Click
anywhere within the selection & you'll see that the two eyes are now
selected. Go to Selections/Modify/Contract and contract the
selection by 1. |
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6. Move to your Gingerbread Man
layer. Delete the selection. If you hide the Raisin Eyes layer now,
you should see that your gingerbread man has 2 holes in his head. Drop the
selection. |
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| 7. Using
the Magic Wand tool, select the gingerbread man. Go to Image/Effcts/Texture...
and use the following settings: Texture number 44, Size (%)
25, Smoothness, Ambience, Shininess all 0, Depth 1, Color
white, Angle 315, Intensity 50 and Elevation 30.
Click OK. Don't drop the selection. |
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8. Go to Image/Effects/Inner Bevel....
Use the following settings: Bevel the second one in the list as
shown in the image, Width 8, Smoothness 40, Depth 20,
Ambience 20 Shininess 0, Color click on the little
sqaure and change the color to R:219 G:191 B:117, Angle 315,
Intensity 40 and Elevation 40. Click OK. Drop the
selection. |
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9. If you "unhide" the Raisin
Eyes layer, your gingerbread man should look a little like this. All
we have to do now is decorate him (or her!) |
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10. Create two new layers above the Raisin
Eyes layer. Call the top-most one Icing and the one beneath it Icing
Shadow |
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11. Select the Line Tool. In the Tool
Options - Draw dialogue box, choose Type Freehand, Style
Stroked, Width 4. Ensure that only Antialias is checked. In
the second tab of the palette, use the settings as shown in this image. |
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12. Ensure that you are on the layer named Icing.
Choose a colour you like and decorate your gingerbread man with the line
tool. |
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13. When you have it to your liking, select
all the bits of icing with the Magic Wand tool. To select more than
one area, hold down the SHIFT key at the same time as selecting.
You will see that a little + appears next to your cursor and
anything you select with that is added as part of the selected group. |
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| 14. When
all the icing is selected, go to Image/Effects/Inner Bevel... and
select the Frame preset. Click OK. Move to the layer named Icing
Shadow. Don't drop the selection, but go to Selections/Modify/Contract
and contract the selection by one. Go to Image/Effect/Drop Shadow....
Make the Color black, Opacity 45, Blur 6, Vertical
and Horizontal offsets both 1. Click OK. Drop the selection. |
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15. Your gingerbread man is finished!
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As with anything in Paint Shop Pro, there is more than one way to achieve an effect. I have found two other tutorials on Gingerbread men that you may be interested in: Designing Dames Laurel's Place
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