Pracken's Paint Shop Pro Tutorials: Kissy Kissy Couple

Pracken's Paint Shop Pro Tutorials

Kissy Kissy Couple: Girl

These two little ones are poised for a kiss, ready to give their hearts away. I created these two for you to use together or individually. In this tutorial, I will teach you how to create the girl. If you would like to create the boy, you can find that tutorial here.

I am providing selections for you to use. There is a little bit of drawing involved in this tutorial, but it's very easy (mostly lines), and I provide a lot of screenshots for you. There are a lot of layers, but don't let that scare you, it just helps keep things organized.

For this tutorial, you will need the following:

Paint Shop Pro. I used version 7.04 but if you are familiar with PSP, you should be able to convert the tutorial without problems. You may download the latest PSP version demo here.

My selection files. Place these in your PSP selections folder (or a folder of your choice). You may download them here.

My seamless fill tiles. You may download them here.

Step 1. Open a new image 300 x 450, background color of your choice.

Step 2. Add a new layer. Load selection 1 (go to selections>load from disk - then navigate to the location you placed your selection files). Flood fill with pink #D38392. Keep selected.

Step 3. Now you'll apply a cutout. To do that, you need to float your selection. You can do that by going to selections>float. Or, you can use the keyboard shortcut and hit "ctrl+F."

Apply a cutout (go to effects>3d effects>cutout), and use the settings in the screenshot. Repeat the cutout, but change the vertical and horizontal settings to -1.

Note: you'll follow this same procedure in the following directions whenever I tell you to apply a cutout.

Step 4. Choose your draw tool, freehand line, antialias checked (line size 1). Set your foreground color to black and background color to null. Add a new layer. Draw a line similar to mine. Lower the opacity of this layer to about 30.

Step 5. Add a new layer. Load selection 2. Flood fill with same pink as before (#D38392). Apply cutout, same as before. Add a new layer. Choose your draw tool, same settings as before, draw lines similar to mine. Decrease opacity to about 30.

Step 6. Add a new layer. Load selection 3. Open up the seamless tiles you downloaded. Choose the "03 girl" tile and set the size to 50%, angle to 0. Flood fill the selection. Apply a cutout, same settings as before.

Step 7. Add a new layer. Load selection 4. Flood fill with "04girl" (size 50%, angle 348). Apply cutout as before.

Step 8. Add a new layer. Load selection 5. Flood fill with 04 girl (size 50%, angle 348). Apply cutout as before.

Step 9. Add a new layer. Load selection 6. Fill with "06girl" tile, angle 0, scale 50%. Apply cutout as before.

Step10. Add a new layer. Choose your draw tool, freehand line, line size 1. Set your foreground color to black and your background color to null. Draw some lines similar to mine. Lower the opacity of this layer to about 30%.

Step11. Add a new layer. Load selection 7. Flood fill with blue, #94BFE8. Apply cutout as before.

Step12. Repeat for selections 8, 9, 10, and 11.

Step13. Add a new layer. Load selection 12. Flood fill with beige #FCE9DC. Apply cutout as before. Add a new layer. Choose your draw tool and draw a couple of lines similar to mine. Lower the opacity to about 30.

Step 14. Add a new layer. Load selection 13. Flood fill with the "04 girl" tile, scale 50%, angle 332. Apply cutout as before. Add a new layer. Choose your draw tool and add some lines similar to mine. Reduce the opacity of this layer to about 30%.

Step 15. Add a new layer. Load selection 14. Flood fill with beige #FCE9DC. Apply cutout as before.

Step 16. Add a new layer. Load selection 15. Flood fill with "03 girl" tile, size 50, angle about 332. Apply cutout as before.

Step 17. Add a new layer. Load selection 16. Flood fill with yellow #FFFFC0. Apply cutout as before.

Step 18. Choose your draw tool, freehand line. Set foreground color to #A59341, background color to null. Add a new layer. Draw some lines, similar to mine. Lower opacity to about 30%.

Step 19. Add a new layer. Choose your draw tool, freehand line. Set foreground color to black. Draw an eye and an eyebrow, similar to mine. Change your foreground color to pink #E098A7 and draw a mouth. Lower opacity of this layer to about 40-45%.

Step 20. Optional - I added some color to her cheek. To do this, just add a new layer. Choose your airbrush tool set to round (size 10, hardness 40, opacity 40, step 25, density 70). Spray some color on her cheek. Then just use your retouch tool, smudge brush to soften the color a bit.

Step 21. Add a new layer. Load selection 17. Flood fill with blue #94BFE8. Apply cutout as before. Repeat for selections 18 and 19.

Step 22. Now if you wish, you can add something to her hand. I added a heart. To do that, add a new layer. Load selection 20. Flood fill with pink #F4DADF. Apply a cutout as before. Move this layer underneath the hand layer.

Step 23. Now save as a master PSP file with all layers intact. That way you can go back later and change things as you wish.

All done!

Note: I've done this girl in a "soft" manner. If you want the lines more defined, and especially if you're going to resize the graphic down to a very small size, you may want to make things a bit "harder." You can do this by adding a black outline to each of your selections. When you load the selection, just flood fill it with black, contract it by 1, and then fill with color or tile as instructed. You can, of course, also make the graphic by using bolder and more saturated colors.

I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial, and as always, please let me know if you have any questions. Happy tuting!

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This tutorial was created on February 9, 2004.
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