Paint Shop Pro Santa Tutorial

Santa Paint Shop Pro Tutorial

Using Version 9, most likely can be done in other versions as well. Except Version 7, you can download those selections, Here.

by Jane's Haven

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Unzip them in a folder of your choice.

Fur trim fill and beard fill HERE

Don't forget the save often.

Open both fill patterns in PSP.

1.Open a new transparent image, size; 375X510

2.Add a new layer, name it, hat, load from disk the, 01-hat selection, flood fill with color; #c00000. Invert selection and add a drop shadow with the following settings.

Vertical and Horizontal; 0

Opacity; 100

Blur; 13.00

Color; Black

Deselect and got to adjust, add noise/remove noise, add noise with these settings;

Uniform, 15, Monochrome checked.

3. Add a new layer, name it, hat fur ball, load from disk the, 02-hatfurball. flood fill with the white furm2 pattern, angle; 0, scale; 100. Float selection and add a cutout with the following settings.

Vertical and Horizontal; 2

Opacity; 100

Blur; 14.00

Color; #605c5c

Repeat the cutout, changing the vertical and Horizontal to minus 2. Deselect.

4, Add a new layer, name it, left mitten, load the, 03-leftmitten selection and flood fill with color;#0000ff. Invert selection and add a drop shadow with the following settings.

Vertical and Horizontal; 0

Opacity; 100

Blur; 13.00

Color; Black

Deselect and got to adjust, add noise/remove noise, add noise with these settings;

Uniform, 15, Monochrome checked.

5. Add a new layer, name it, right mitten, load the, 04-rightmitten, flood fill with the same color as the left mitten, invert and add the same drop shadow and noise as we did in the last step.

6. Add a new layer, name it, left shoe sole, load the, 05-leftshowsole, flood fill with black and add an inner bevel with the following settings. Deselect....*Note; You can save this inner bevel as a preset, when you open the inner bevel dialog window, after you have the settings correct, click on the save icon, give it a name you can remember and click ok.

7Add a new layer, name it, right shoe sole, load from disk the, 06-rightshoesole, flood fill with black. Add the same inner bevel as in the last step. If you saved the preset, open the inner bevel and go to the top, where it says presets and find the one you saved, Deselect.

.8. Add a new layer, name it, left shoe, load the, 07-leftshoe, flood fill with black and add an inner bevel with the following settings. Deselect.

9. Add a new layer, name it, right shoe, load the, 08-rightshoe selection and flood fill with black and add the same inner bevel. Deselect.

10. Add a new layer, name it, right pant leg, load the,09-rightpantleg, flood fill with color; #c00000, Invert selection and add a drop shadow with the following settings.

Vertical and Horizontal; 0

Opacity; 100

Blur; 8.00

Color; Black

Deselect and got to adjust, add noise/remove noise, add noise with these settings;

Uniform, 15, Monochrome checked.

11.Add a new layer, name it, left pant leg, load the, 010-leftpantleg selection and flood fill with the same red color, invert, and add the same drop shadow as we did for the right pant leg. Deselect, add noise with the same settings.

12. Add a new layer, name it, coat, load the, 011-coat selection and flood fill with the same color red. Invert selection and add the following drop shadow.

Vertical and Horizontal; 0

Opacity; 100

Blur; 18.00

Color; Black

Deselect and got to adjust, add noise/remove noise, add noise with these settings;
Uniform, 15, Monochrome checked.

13. Add a new layer, name it, right sleeve, load the, 012-rightsleeve selection and flood fill with the red color. Invert selection and add the following drop shadow.

Vertical and Horizontal; 0

Opacity; 100

Blur; 6.00

Color; Black

Deselect and got to adjust, add noise/remove noise, add noise with these settings;
Uniform, 15, Monochrome checked.

14. Add a new layer, name it, left sleeve, load the, 013-leftsleeve, flood fill with the same red color; #c00000. Invert and add the same drop shadow as in the last step, except change the blur to; 8.00

Deselect and got to adjust, add noise/remove noise, add noise with these settings;
Uniform, 15, Monochrome checked..

15. Add a new layer, name it, face, load the, 014-face, flood fill with color; #f8c39b. Invert selection and add a drop shadow with the following settings.

Vertical and Horizontal; 0

Opacity; 100

Blur; 12.00

Color; #6d4505

Deselect.

16. Add a new layer, name it, face shading, load the, 015-face shading selection and flood fill with color; #f97373. Click twice with your bucket fill. Deselect.

17. Add a new layer, name it, eyes, load the, 016-eyes, flood fill with black. Go to selections, modify, contract by 1, flood fill with white. Deselect.

18. Add a new layer, name it, nose, load the, 017-nose selection, flood fill with color;#f97373. Invert selection and add a drop shadow with the following settings.

Vertical and Horizontal; 0

Opacity; 100

Blur; 6.00

Color; #c41414

Deselect.

19. Add a new layer, name it, hat trim, load the, 018-hattrim selection, flood fill with the white fur pattern. angle; 0, scale; 100.. Invert selection and add a drop shadow with the following settings.

Vertical and Horizontal; 0

Opacity; 100

Blur; 17.00

Color; #595353

Deselect.

20. Add a new layer name it, lashes, load the,019-lashes. Using the paint brush, with the settings below, color black, to fill the lashes.

21. Add a new layer, name it, left sleeve trim, load the, 020-leftsleevetrim, flood fill with the white fur pattern, angle; 0, scale; 100. Invert selection and add a drop shadow with the following settings.

Vertical and Horizontal; 0

Opacity; 100

Blur; 14.00

Color; #595353

Deselect.

22. Add a new layer, name it, right sleeve trim, load the, 021-rightsleevetrim, flood fill with the white fur pattern, invert and add the same drop shadow as in the last step. Deselect.

23. Add a new layer, name it, coat trim, load the 022-coattrim. flood fill with the white fur pattern. Invert selection and add a drop shadow with the following settings.

Vertical and Horizontal; 0

Opacity; 100

Blur; 17.00

Color; #595353

Deselect.

Seems to be too far to the left, grab the move tool to move it a bit to the right.

24. Add a new layer, name it, belt 1, load the, 023-belt1 selection and flood fill with black. Add an inner bevel with the following settings. Deselect.

25. Add a new layer, name it, belt 2, load the, 024-belat2 selection and flood fill with black. Add the same inner bevel as in the last step. Deselect.

26. Add a new layer, name it, belt buckle, load the, 025-beltbuckle selection, flood fill with a gold gradient and add the same inner bevel as the last two steps. Deselect.

27. Add a new layer, name it, beard, load the, 026-beard selection, flood fill with the beard fill provided, settings of, angle; 0, scale; 100. Invert selection and add the following drop shadow.

Vertical and Horizontal; 0

Opacity; 100

Blur; 25.00

Color; #595353

Deselect.

In the layer palette, find the hat trim layer and drag it up above the beard layer.

28. Add a new layer, name it, mouth, load the, 027-mouth, flood fill with color; #f97373. Invert and add a drop shadow with the following settings.

Vertical and Horizontal; 0

Opacity; 100

Blur; 4.00

Color; #700a0a

Deselect.

29. Add a new layer, name it, eyes 2, load the, 028-eyes2, flood fill with, I used a dark blue color; #0000be, deselect.

30, Add a new layer, name it, eyes 3, load the, 029-eyes3, flood fill with black. Add an inner bevel with the following settings. Deselect.

Santa is complete.

To Save as a Picture Tube, merge visible. To add a background, hide the very last layer at the bottom and merge visible.

Excellent work Cellar, You're a Wonderful Friend and a Big Help to me.

02/16/2015