Shell's Tutorials

Christmas Bear

Open a new image

Open the bear tube. Go to Edit > Copy. Click on your new image to make it active. Go to Edit > Paste > As New Layer

Set your foreground colour #b92438

Set your background colour to the Multi-red gradient.

Click on the text tool and use the settings in the screenshot.

Click on your canvas and type the text in the text entry box. Click ok. When the text appears on the canvas, move it under the bear and use the nodes to stretch the text. Go to the layer palette and right click on the text layer. Click on Convert To Raster Layer.

Add an inner bevel to the text using the settings in the screenshot.

Go to the layer palette and drag the text layer under the bear layer.

Click on Raster 1 to select it and flood fill with white.

This is what you should have.

Click on the crop tool and move the nodes until the bear and text are selected.

Click on the tick to crop away the excess canvas.

Go to the layer and right click on Raster 1. Go to Merge > Merge Visible.

Right click on the layer and duplicate. Repeat so you have 3 layers. Click on the middle layer to select it.

Add a new raster layer by going to layers > New Raster Layer

Click on the clone tool and use the settings in the screenshot. Go to the layer palette and click on the middle bear layer to select it.

Now zoom in so the image is really big. Move the clone tool to the side of one of the eyes. RIGHT click once. This tells the tool which part of the image you want to clone. Go to the layer palette and click back on the new, blank layer. Now using your LEFT mouse button, 'paint' over an eye. It should paint over the eye with the colours that are at the side of the eye. If you start to get other colours appearing, choose a new part of the image and RIGHT click again. Repeat for the other eye. You want to completely paint out the eyes.

Arrange the layers as in the screenshot then turn off the visibility of the top and bottom layers. Right click on one of the visible layers and go to Merge > Merge Visible.

This is how your layer palette should now look.

Save as a psp file.

Open the file in Animation Shop. Click on frame 2 to select it then right click on frame 2 and go to frame properties. Set the display time to 45

Click on frame 1 to select it then right click on frame 1 and go to frame properties. Set the display time to 110. Repeat this on frame 3.

Save and you're done!