Create a new canvas, 425 pixels wide by 425 pixels high. Transparent background, 16.7 mill. colors.

Add a new layer, name it bodice. Go to Selections, load from disk, Load VLbodice.sel Get your flood fill tool, change the background or fill colour to #E0C1A6, change your stroke colour to #Ab8359. Flood fill, solid colour, left click. Go to selections, modify, contract by 1 pixel. Now flood fill again by right clicking your mouse button. Select none.

Create a new layer name it head. Go to Selections, load from disk, Load VLhead.sel. Flood fill by left clicking your mouse button. Go to selections, modify, contract by 1 and flood fill, this time by right clicking your mouse button.

Here is what you should have:

Add a new rastor layer, naming it Leftarm. Go to selections, load from disk, VLLeftarm.sel. Flood fill the same as for the head. Left click, modify contract by 1, right click. Deselect. Add a new rastor layer, name it rightarm Load VLLadyrightarm.sel. Do the same as the left arm.

Click on layer face, highlight this layer. Then add a new layer and name it dress. Go to selections, Load from Disk, VLdress.sel. If your Bellapattern.gif is not open, do so now. Minimize it. Go to your fill pattern, and find this pattern. Change your stroke colour to #A56668, which is a medium rose colour. Flood fill by left clicking, solid colour. Then modify, contract by 1, then flood fill the pattern. DO NOT Deselect. Go to selections, invert. Using the following change your settings, also change your colour to black. Deselect.

Go to the top layer, which should be rightarm. Add a new rastor layer. Name it sleeves. Go to selections, load from disk, VLsleeves.sel. Flood fill the same as for the dress, invert and add the same drop shadow as for the dress, except change the blur to 10.

Add a new layer, name it ruffles. Now you will be opening several selections, listed below. With the same rose colour, when you open each, flood fill solid colour, the rose shade. Deselect.

1) Selections, Load from disk VLboddiceruffle.sel, flood fill 3 times, making certain all of the selection is covered. deselect. 2) Selections, Load from disk VLbotlace.sel, flood fill 3 times, making certain all of the selection is covered. deselect. 3) Selections, Load from disk VLlargerufflelft.sel, flood fill 3 times, making certain all of the selection is covered. deselect. 4) Selections, Load from disk VLlargerufflert.sel, flood fill 3 times, making certain all of the selection is covered. deselect. 5) Selections, Load from disk VLwaistband.sel, flood fill 3 times, making certain all of the selection is covered. deselect.

Here is what you should have:

Open the rosetube, duplicate twice. Close the original. Resize one until it fits nicely along the bottom trim and around the neck. This will require a fair amount of resizing. Then resize the other to a size a bit larger for the larger trim around her dress. Edit sharpen, once. Edit copy it. Add a new layer call it roses. Edit paste by selection roses along the neck ruffle, bottom ruffle, and two on the waistband as follows.

Add the larger rose tube 3 times, edit copy, edit paste as a new selection, along the larger ruffle of her dress, which is in the middle.

Now we are going to make the insert ruffle. Change your stroke colour to #DAD8D8. Change your background colour to white. Go to layer1 and add a new layer, name it bottruffle. Go to selections Load from Disk VLbottomruffle.sel. Flood fill solid colour by left clicking, then selections, modify, contract by 1 and flood fill white, right click, BUT change your pattern to terrain. This gives a lacy effect. Now go to sharpen, sharpen without deselecting.

Add a new layer call it lace sections. Now get your draw tool, single line, solid line, stroked, create as vector unchecked and antialis checked. Holding down your shift key draw a straight line at about a quarter inch above the bottom of your insert ruffle.

Go to your Deformations wave setting, I believe for PSP7 it is in your effects filters. Apply the following to the line.

Edit copy it. Edit paste it as a new selection, about a quarter inch above the last waved line, and continue to edit paste it as a new selection until what you see of the ruffle is filled. Add a drop shadow..to both the lace sections and to the layer called bottom ruffle.

Example below:

Take your mover tool and just click on the dress layer. Add a new layer, name it dress highlights. Take your airtool with the following settings:

Using #966F76, the darker shade, and #DBC7C7 add highlights and shadow as following.

Go to Gassian Blur, radius 4.00 apply. Go to the layer palette and change it to luminance and decrease the opacity to 72.

Now merge all layers, except layer1 visable.

Now for the neck ribbon. Add a new layer. Change your foreground colour to #966F76, if it isn't already this colour. Change your tool to Freehand, width 5, stroke, solid colour, and draw a line across the neck. Then change your colour to white. Get your preset shapes tool, ellipse, filled, solid, and add a new layer, draw an oval. Use either blade pro, ulead or solid gold, and apply.

Add a new layer, call it gloves. Change your foreground colour to #c0c0c0, and change your background colour to white. Go to selections, load from disk, load VLrightglove.sel. Get your flood fill tool, left click, solid fill, grey. Modify contract by 1, flood fill white. Do the same with the next layer except call it leftglove and select the VLleftglove.sel. You can take the draw tool and add a crease where the arm bends. Merge visable.

Open the hair colour selections. Add a new layer under the merged Lady. Take your preset shapes tool, same settings as previous, pick the middle hair colour, and draw an oval as following:

Convert it to rastor, select all, select float it. Add a new layer. Take your darkest hair colour and using your airbrush tool, same settings, size 5, add lines as following:

Now comes a little magic. Go to Deformations, twirl, degrees 261 and apply twice.

Go to layer one, and create another ellipse, same as above but smaller this time, the size of a french loop.

Select all, select float, add a new layer, then just spot on the darkest hair colour, and a lighter hair colour. Then go to deformation twirl, twirl again.

Add a new layer, selections, load from disk, VLbangs.sel. Flood fill with the darkest colour. Add lines of light and the medium brown, keeping selected. Then go to deformations twirl. Apply twice at negative -73. Take your eraser tool and erase, with a hardness of 22, just along the top to create this effect:

Add a new rastor layer, change your stroke (foreground) colour to #Ab8359, and the (background) fill colour to #E0C1A6. Go to selections, load from disk, VLear.gif. Flood fill solid colour, selections, modify contract by 1, flood fill by right clicking. Select none, take your paint brush tool, hardness and size 12, step 8, density and opacity 100, brush a stroke over the line nearest the face.

Take the retouch tool and using RGB darkness, found on the second tab, the following size and settings, draw a slight c in the ear.

Add a new rastor layer. Go to selections, load VLeyeleft.sel. Stroke colour or foreground should be #Ab8359. Background or fill colour white. Using your flood fill tool, apply 3 times the brown, modify contract and apply the white. Now create the right eye the same way, loading VLeyeright.sel.

Add a new rastor layer. Take your preset shapes tool, same settings, and draw a small ellipse, if needed take your eraser tool and erase any that overlaps the eyeball. If using a lighter eye colour, with your paintbrush tool, size 1, add a drop in the center. Duplicate this layer, and position over the opposite eye. Take the darkest hair colour and add eyebrows and eyelashes with the draw tool, stroke, freehand size 1 or 2.

Now zoom in twice. Take your retouch tool, which should still be on RGB darken, size 2, draw the face as following adding an upper eyelid above both eyes and the nose. Then change RGB darken to RGBlighten, size 5, and add a lighter touch to the nose.

Add a new rastor layer. Selections, Load from disk, VLlips.sel. Pick up the colour in your ruffle, the rose shade. Flood fill solid colour twice. Keep selected. Take your draw tool, RGB Darken, size 2, and draw the line which seperates the top and bottom lip.

Once you have this completed, merge visable. Resize by 75%. Now you can add a final stroke, take your smudge tool, and where the eyes meet the bridge of the nose, smudge it lightly. Tube or create a scenery.

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