Jade's Hallowe'en Goodies Tutorial

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Kitty And Pumpkin

Open a new transparent image 300x400/16 million colors.
Add a new layer and name it Leaves. Go to Selections/Load from
Disk and load the kittyleaves.sel file. Flood fill with a dark green.
I used #2F8C58. Go to Selections/Float and apply a cutout effect
using these settings:

Apply another cutout, but change your horizontal and vertical to
-2 and the black to color #01CD01 Deselect your image.

Add another layer and name it stem. Go to Selections/Load From Disk
and load the kittystem.sel file. Flood fill with a light brown color. I
used #CEBB97 Go to Selections/Float and apply a cutout effect with
the same settings as in the diagram above. Apply a second cutout, but
change only our H & V to -2 (don't change the color to green this time)
Deselect and add a new layer, naming this one pumpkin. Go to
Selections/Load From Disk and load the kittypumpkin.sel file. Go
to Selections/Modify/Expand and type in 4. Flood fill your pumpkin with
the orange color of your choice. I used #CE8601. Go to Selection/
Float and apply the same cutout effect as in the diagram above, then
change your H & V to -2 as we did with the stem. Deselect.

Add yet another layer, naming this one kitty. Go to Selections/Load From
Disk and load the kitty.sel file. Flood fill with black. Go to Selections/Float
and add a cutout effect with the same settings as above, only change your
black to white. We'll get back to our kitty in a bit to add his face 'n stuff.

Now let's add some pizzazz to our graphic. I have included a face for
the pumpkin with the .sel zip file. If you don't feel inclined to hand-
draw your pumpkin's face, you may now, with your pumpkin layer
active, add a new layer and name it face. Open the jackoface.psp
file and copy and paste it as a new selection onto your face layer.
I applied a little drop shadow to my face using the settings we used in
the above capture, but it's entirely up to you. Now take your brush
tool, set at Size 2 and draw some lines down your pumpkin for texture.
I used black for my line color. Now do the same for the stem of your
pumpkin. I also added a couple of "veins" on my leaves.

Now for our kitty! We're going to do one little vector, and it's an
easy one, so don't fret! Grab your Preset shapes tool, set to Ellipse.
You need to have your fore and background colors set to white, and
both antialias and vector should be checked. Make sure your layer
named kitty is active and add a new layer, naming it kitty face.
Draw a small ellipse on your kitty's face, then click on your node edit
tool. Right click on your eye and click on the bottom node.
Right click on the node and choose Node Type/Symmetric.
Push the botton node up a bit till it is flatter along the bottom and rounded
at the top still. I pushed mine in a bit at both sides too, till I got it to
look the way I wanted. Then take your magic wand tool and click on
your eye. Go to Image/Rotate and rotate your eye 10 degrees to the right.
Then Copy/Paste it as a new selection, so you have two and line them
up. I then took my preset shapes tool again, turned off antialias and
vector and changed my colors to #40FF40. I then drew a small circle
of the green within the white. See image below for the shapes I used.
I then used my paintbrush to paint a dot of black inside the green for
the pupils. Then again with your paintbrush, make a small nose and
mouth with grey. I used #C0C0C0 Then add a little tongue in a nice
bright red color, and draw his mouth out from the tongue the way
mine is in the finished pic. And we're all done! You may now tube
your image or resize it and save as a transparent .gif.

I hope this tut was easy to follow, and that you enjoyed it!

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