Di's Delights PSP Panda Tutorial
 

 

By doing this tutorial you agree to my terms of use.
Screen shots were taken fromPSP7 and as such copyright belongs to JASC
Tube used in the above picture and background belongs to DigArts Software

The fur jpg was obtained here and colourised

You will need my Panda selections and fur fills.
Extract the selection files and fur fills to where ever you keep them and can find them :o)

OK, lets role up our sleeves and get creating.
Don't forget to save your work often lest the dreaded freeze occurs :o)

 

1. Open an new image 500x380 with a transparent background. Open the pandab and pandaw jpg's to use as the flood fill.

2. Add a new raster layer naming it body, Selections/load from disc, open the pandabody.sel. Flood fill with pandaw.jpg. Selections/select none. 

3. Add a new raster layer naming it back leg. Go to selections/load from disc and open pandableg.sel. Flood fill with pandab.jpg. Selections/select none.

4. Add a new raster layer naming it front leg. Go to selections/load from disc and open pandafleg.sel. Flood fill with pandab.jpg. Selections/select none.

5. Add a new raster layer naming it ear1. Go to selections/load from disc and open pandaear1.sel. Flood fill with pandab.jpg. Selections/select none.

6. Add a new raster layer naming it head. Go to selections/load from disc and open pandahead.sel. Flood fill with pandaw.jpg. Selections/select none. 

7. Add a new raster layer naming it ear2. Go to selections/load from disc and open pandaear2.sel. Flood fill with pandab.jpg. Selections/select none.

8. Add a new raster layer naming it eyes. Go to selections/load from disc and open pandaeyes.sel. Flood fill with pandab.jpg. Selections/select none. Stay on the same layer, go to selections/load from disc and open pandaeye1.sel. Flood fill with black. Effects/3d effects/inner bevel, apply the round preset. Selections/none.

9. Add a new raster layer naming it nose. Go to selections/load from disc and open pandanose.sel. Flood fill with black, apply the same inner bevel but change the angle to 158. Selections/none.

10. We're going to attempt to dirty the fur. In the layer palette click on the body layer to make active. Get the airbrush tool, with these settings and using the colour to #A47A4C, lightly colour the back end and his neck. Then click the head layer to make active and lightly colour his cheek. Make the body layer active and with the retouch tool at these settings darken his belly.

      

11. Change the retouch tool to smudge at these settings and smudge the fur of his face, ears, the edge of the eye patches, body and legs, when doing his front legs only smudge the fur that is not joined to the body, also smudge the area's you sprayed.

12. Merge all layers visible and with the retouch tool set to smudge using the same settings smudge the fur of the front where it joins with the white fur. Change the retouch tool to darken using the same settings as before but change the size to 7 draw in his mouth and slightly shade the top of his right eye. 

There you have a panda bear, save as a psp file or as a tube. If it is too big for your liking resize but remember to sharpen the image, I prefer to use the unsharp mask with a radius of 1.00, strength 75 and clipping 0.

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