welcome to my blue-eyed leopard tutorial
Things We Will be Plaing with
Layers
Altering Masks
Brushes
Gradients
Change to Target Brush
this tutorial could not have been written without the toys from Andrew Buckle, AKA Andrew's Plug-In, Andrew's Filters.
Andrew graciously consented to allow the bundling of his brush and mask for this tutorial,
so, please show your thanks by checking out his toyland at
GraphicXtras
this snowleopard is now my image, so, whoever has provenance let me know, so i can recieve permission for useage or take down if necessary
this tutorial was written in PSPX,
you can get a 30 day free trial here
everything else you need is in the materials zipped HERE
LET THE GAMES BEGIN
PREP WORK
Open your PSPX,
your Zip file
save the gradient to your gradients folder(tiger1.PSPgradient),
import the brush your brush folder
SB01_34 014.PspScript
BrushTipSB01_34 014PspBrush
the mask (SF12_015.jpg) to your mask folder
and then drag your tiger picture called "snow.leopard.pspimage" to a blank spot on your work space by left clicking and holding it down while you drag your mouse to an open space on your work area when your image shows up and in the layers palette you see a layer with your tiger image left click on the tiger again and pull that image into your work area, and you have just duplicated your image, minimize both of your tigers.
next we will prepare the materials palette,
double click on your background patch of your materials palette preview,
when the materials palette opens,
click on edit
scroll through to your "tiger1.Pspgradient"
double click,the settings are:
Style Linear
Angle 90
Repeats 0
click okay
now to set up your foreground
on the materials palette
click the foreground and when that window comes up
click the solid black ball (color)
your color is HTML #e7a641
click OK
now get your brush ready
scroll to the brush named
SB01_34 014
leave all the settings as they are.
okay so everything is set
Go to File New
Dimensions are 600x600
background is white
click OK
why white? because when we will be merging all the layers
to one layer the transparent areas will be white
so this will give us a preview of how it will look as we are working.
Layer>New>Raster
Name it "Paint Tracks"
now with your brush and foreground color
happily splotch around your layers,
get around to the edges, but leave it looking lacy around the edges
once you are satisfied lower your opacity to 50%
LEOPARD LAYER
click open one of your minimized
"leopard.pspimage" files
copy
reactivate your work file
Paste as New Layer over your "Paint Tracks" layer,
Imager~Resize~160%,
resize all layers unchecked
click okay
GRADIENT LAYER
Layer~new~Raster
name it Gradient
click okay
Right Click your Flood Tool
everything disappears under the gradient
Layer>Load Mask from Disk
select mask SF12_015,
click invert transparency, fit canvas, source luminence
click Load
Layers~Merge~Merge Group
Lower Opacity to 50%
Layer Merge Down
WHITE MASK
Layer Raster New
name it White Layer
Change your Foreground Color to White
Flood Fill with White
everything disappears under the white
Layer>Load Mask from Disk
select mask SF12_015, invert transparency, fit canvas, soure luminence
Click Load,
at this point your layers pallette should look like this
Layers>Merge>Merge Group
now go to Effects Distortion Effects Punch 50%
Layer Merge Down
Select ALL
Select Modify contract 30 Invert Selection Delete
Do not DeSelect Yet
Merge All
Effects>3D Effects, Chisel, change color to #808080 width 2, click Ok
Image>Border> 2 pixel wide, symmetrical checked color set to #808080
click okay
Change Foreground Color to#0000ff
Change Tool to "Change To Target Tool"
size the brush so that it is small enough to go into the leopard's eyes and swish it around until the pupils are the beautiful baby blues you want!!!!
and Thats All Folks,
Resize and Sign as desired.
