©Alicia's Place Juana Tutorial

For this tutorial you will need Paint Shop Pro 6 or 7, this zip file

Unzip the selections into your PSP selections folder

Open a new image 310x540

1. Add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>hat.sel flood fill with black, add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>hat1.sel flood fill with #CF203F, add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>hat2.sel flood fill with black, add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>hat3.sel flood fill with #F5EA40, deselect and add a drop shadow: Color Black, Horizontal and Vertical "1", Opacity "60" and Blur "2.6". Turn off visibility of Layer 1 and merge these 4 layers visible, name this layer hat. Save.

2. Add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>legs.sel flood fill with white, do not deselect, change your foreground color to #CC60AC and your background to "null" and with the Draw tool with the following settings draw 3 lines on each leg, don't worry if you go outside of the legs, when you have your lines go to selections>invert and hit the delete key. Save.

3. Add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>shoes.sel flood fill with black, do not deselect, add a new layer, and with the Airbrush and color #8E8F94 spray some on the shoes. TIP: if you sprayed too much just spray some black on top.

3a. Add a new layer change your foreground color to #FEFF8A background to "null" and with the draw tool same settings as before, only change Width to "6", draw half of an 'x' on each side of the shoes (see example below) load your shoe selection again and go to Selections>Modify>Expand "1", Selections Invert and hit the delete key.

Turn off visibility of Layer 1 and Hat Layer and merge visible, name this new layer legs. Save.

4. Add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>dress.sel flood fill with black, do not deselect and add a new layer, repeat the Airbrush as on step 3, merge this 2 layers and name it dress. Save.

5. Add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>broom.sel flood fill with #1D6D60, do not deselect and add a new layer, repeat the Airbrush as on step 3 but this time change the color to #2CD4B6, deselect.

5a. Add a new layer, go to Selections>Load from disk>broom1.sel flood fill with #C97B1F go to Selection>Modify>Contract "1" and flood fill with #ECC850. Do not deselect, add a new layer and apply the Airbrush using color #C97B1F, add a new layer, turn your background color to "null" and your foreground to #C97B1F, with the draw tool same settings as step 2, only change Width to "1" draw some lines for your broom, don't worry if you go outside of the broom, when you finish go to selections invert and hit the delete key.

5b. Add a new layer, go to Selections>Load from disk>broom2.sel flood fill with black, go to Selections>Modify>Contract "1" and flood fill with white. Now at this point you can add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>broom3.sel and flood fill with black or you can decorate it the way you want it. Turn off visibility off Layer 1, hat, legs and dress layers and merge visible, name this new layer broom. Save.

6. Add a new layer and name it hands, go to Selections>Load from disk>hands.sel flood fill with #75CCAC, do not deselect, change the color to #1DB582 and apply the airbrush same settings as before. Deselect and apply a Drop Shadow: Color "Black", Vertical "1", Horizontal "-1", Opacity "60" and Blur "2.6". Save.

7. Add a new layer, go to Selections>Load from disk>face.sel repeat the flood fill and airbrush as step 6, now if you want to do your own face add a new layer and decorate it and skip the next step, if you want to do the face with selections go to step 7a.

7a. Add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>face1.sel flood fill with black, zoom your image and with the Magic Wand Tolerance and Feather "0" click inside the teeth, holding the Ctrl key click inside the other teeth, go to Selections>Modify>Expand "2" and flood fill with white, go to Layers>Arrange>Move down. Add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>nose.sel flood fill with #066F46 go to Selections>Modify>Contract "1" and flood fill with #75CCAC, do not deselect and apply some Airbrush same settings and color as step 6, deselect and apply Drop Shadow, same settings as step 6 also.

7b. Turn off visibility of off Layer 1, hat, legs, dress, broom and hands layers and merge visible, name this new layer face. Save.

8. Add a new layer and go to Selections>Load from disk>bow.sel flood fill with #CF203F, do not deselect, add a new layer, change your foreground to #A81437 and background to "null" and with the Draw tool Freehand Line, Width "2" and Antialias "checked" draw some lines giving the form of the bow, go to Effects>Blur>Gaussian Blur>Radius "1", go to Selections>Invert and hit the Delete key, deselect.

8a. Turn off visibility of off Layer 1, hat, legs, dress, broom, hands and face layers and merge visible, name this new layer bow. Save.

9. Add a new layer, change your Foreground to #ECC850 Background to "null" and with the Draw tool Freehand Line, Width "7" and Antialias "checked" draw two separate lines on each side of the face, go to Selections>Select all>Float, change color to #D55633 and with the Airbrush same settings as before spray some on your hair, deselect and add a drop shadow: Color "Black", Vertical and Horizontal "1", Opacity "60" and Blur "2.6", repeat the Shadow but this time change Vertical and Horizontal to "-1". Add a new layer and repeat this step 3 or 4 times until you have all your hair.

10. Go to the hat layer and go to Layers>Arrange>Move to top and apply Drop Shadow: Color "Black", Vertical "2", Horizontal "0", Opacity "60" and Blur "2.6"

11. Turn off visibility of Layer 1 and merge visible, if you want to tube your image, go to Copy>Paste as a new image and then Export as a Picture tube. Go to Layer 1 and add the background you want and Juana its ready.

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