Watch Dog Paint Shop Pro Tutorial

I am using Paint Shop Pro Version 9. I am reasonable sure it can be done in other versions as well.

The Selections you can Download HERE.

You can get the binoculars HERE.

My wood pattern HERE

Unzip the selections in your PSP selections folder or a folder of your choice. When you go to load selection click to browse to the selections folder.

1.Open a new transparent image, size; 575X510. Open the wood pattern.

2,Add a new layer, name it, fence post. Load from disk the, 01-femcepost selection, Flood fill with; my wood pattern, angle;10 scale;100. Add an inner bevel with the following settings. Deselect

3. Add a new layer, name it, bottom slat edge, load the 02-bottomslatedge selection, food fill with the wood pattern, set the angel to 90. Add an inner bevel with the following settings. Deselect and go to adjust, brightness and contrast, set the brightness to minus 28, contrast; 0.

4. Add a new layer, name it, bottom slat, load from disk the 04-bottomslat selection. Flood fill with the wood pattern, with the angle at 90. Add an inner bevel with the following settings. Deselect.

5. Add a new layer. name it, top slat edge, load the, 04-topslatedge selection. Flood fill with the wood pattern, same settings. Add an inner bevel with the same settings as for the bottom slat edge in step 3. Deselect and add the brightness and ontast, with the same settings in step 3.

6. Add a new layer. name it, top slat, load the 05-topslat. Flood fill with the same wood pattern and add the same inner bevel as in step 4. Deselect.

7. Add a new layer, name it, bolts. load from disk the, 06-bolts selection, flood fill with the wood pattern. Add an inner bevel using the round preset that came with PSP. The settings are below. Deselect.

8. Add a new layer, name it, body, load from disk the, 07-body selection. Flood fill with color; #fcdaad, invert selection and add a drop shadow with the following settings.

Vertical and Horizontal; 0

Opacity; 80

Blur; 25.00

Color; #5c3906

Deselect.

9. Add a new layer, name it, tail, load the 08-tail selection. Flood fill with color; #fcdaad. Invert the selection, add a drop shadow with the following settings.

Vertical and Horizontal; 0

Opacity; 77

Blur; 16.00

Color; #5c3906

Deselect. Send the tail under the body layer.

10. Add a new layer, name it, bottom lip, load the, 09-bottom lip selection, flood fill with; #fcdaad. Invert and add the same drop shadow as the last step. Deselect.

11,Add a new layer, name it, binoculars, load from disk the, 010-binoculars selection. Open the binocular image, got to edit, copy and paste into selection.Deselect.

12. Add a new layer, name it, head, load from disk the, 011-head selection, flood fill with the same color; #fcdaad. Invert and add the same drop shadow as in step 9. Deselect.

13. Add a new layer, name it, mouth top load from disk the, 012-mouthtop selection, flood fill with the same color;#fcdaad. Float selection and add a cutout with the following settings.

Vertical and Horizontal; 2

Opacity; 82

Blur; 7.00

Color; #5c3906

Repeat the cutout except change the vertical and horizontal to minus 2. Deselect.

14. Add a new layer, name it, collar, load from disk the 013-collar selection, flood fill with, I used a dark red color;#c00000. Float the selection and add a cutout with the following settings.

Vertical and Horizontal; 2

Opacity; 82

Blur; 7.00

Color; #890101

Deselect.

15. Add a new layer, name it, cheeks, load from disk the, 014-cheek selection. Flood fill with the color; #fcebd6. Float the selection, add a cutout with the following settings.

vertical and horizontal; 3

Opacity; 82

Blur; 12.00

Color; #5c3906

Repeat the cutout, changing the vertical and horizontal to minus 3. Deselect.

16. Add a new layer, name it mouth line, load from disk the, 015-mouthline selection. Flood fill with black. Deselect.

17. Add a new layer, name it, eyes, load the 016-eyes selection, flood fill with black. Deselect.

18. Add a new layer, name it, nose, load the, 017-nose selection. Set your background color to; #fcdaad, set your foreground color to; #c00000, now click on the gradient icon, click on edit and find, foreground-background and close. Use the style preset, sunburst. Flood fill. Deselect.

19.Add anew layer, name it, cheek spots, load from disk the, 018-cheekspots selection. Flood fill with black. Deselect.

20. Add a new layer, name it, left ear, load the, 019-leftear selection, flood fill with color; #814d09. Invert selection and add a drop shadow with the following settings.

Vertical and Horizontal; 0

Opacity; 80

Blur; 15.00

Color; Black

Deselect.

21. Add a new layer, name it right ear, load the, 020-rightear selection, flood fill with the same color;#814d09, invert and add the same drop shadow. Deselect.

22. Add a new layer, name it, paw shade, load the, 021-pawchade. Flood fill with color,#814d09. Go to adjust, blur, average and set the blur to; 5. Deselect.

23. Add a new layer, name it, tongue, load the 022-tongue selection. Flood fill with the same sunburst gradient we used for the nose. Deselect. On the same layer load the,023-tongueshade selection, flood fill with a red color; #c00000, add the blur, average set to; 5. Deselect. Move this layer below the mouth top layer. Using the mover tool, slide the tongue up under the mouth top layer a bit.

24.Add a new layer, name it spots, load the 024-spots selection. flood fill with color;#744a0e and deselect.

25.Add a new layer, name it hip shade, load the 025-hipshade selection. Flood fill with color; #744a0e, click twice with the bucket. deselect. Go to adjust, blur, average with a seeing of;7.

Your watch dog is complete. Merge visible, if you want to add a background, hide the background layer, merge visible. Add layers if your going to add any tubes, etc.

Many thanks again to Cellar for her help in testing this tutorial. Cellar does great work, the above image is hers, it is a beauty.