Christmas Elephant Tutorial by Jarah

This tutorial was created and put on this site on Dec. 9, 2001.
It is property of and ©2001 to JCW Designs.
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For this tutorial you will need:

Paint Shop Pro 8 ~ download a trial version here.

My selections file ~ download here.

Place the selections in your Selections Folder. If you do not have a Selections Folder now is a good time to make one.

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN OR BETTER YET SET YOUR PSP 8 TO THE AUTOSAVE OPTION. To do this open PSP 8 go to File > Preferences > Autosave Settings > and check box Enable Autosave for how many ever minutes you want it to repeat saving your image.

Let's begin. Open a new transparent image 720 X 525.

Add a new Raster Layer and name it body.

Go to Selections > Load from Disk > and click on body.sel. and flood fill with #808080 and go to Selectons > Modify > Contract by 2 then flood fill with Color #B3B3B3. Now go to Selections> Invert and apply this drop shadow:

Deselect.

Add a new layer and name it head. Load from Disk> head.sel and floodfill with #808080 and go to Selectons > Modify > Contract by 2 then flood fill with Color #B3B3B3. Now go to Selections> Invert and apply the same drop shadow as above. Deselect

Add a new layer and name it inner ear. Load from Disk> inner ear.sel and floodfill with #B3B3B3 and apply the same drop shadow as above. Deselect

Add a new layer and name it feet. Load from Disk> feet.sel and floodfill with #808080 and go to Selectons > Modify > Contract by 2 then flood fill with Color #B3B3B3. Now go to Selections> Invert and apply the same shadow as above. Deselect

Add a new layer and name it toes. Load from Disk> toes.sel and floodfill with #000000. Selections > Modify > Contract by 2 and floodfill with #808080. Selections > Float and apply this cutout:

Deselect.

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