Made with Ball and Bubbles
Only available for PSP8 and PSP9
 Pearl Angel


Made without Ball and Bubbles
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You will have to experiment with settings.
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This tutorial was written in PSP9 beta for learning purposes. It is for the more advanced PSP users. It will use preset shapes no editing, making a gradient, and creating a Bump Map use with Balls and Bubbles. You can do in other versions, but some tools are named differently and you will not be able to use Balls and Bubbles in PSP7 and under. You can experiment with Cut Out or use Inner Bevel in place of the Balls and Bubbles.
Make sure your Layer Palette is visible (F8)

When you finish this image, it is yours to do with as you wish since I am only providing the technique. The work will be yours. The tutorial itself still follows my Terms of Use.

If you are using PSP7 or below, you can go down to just before Wings.

First we will create the gradient to use.
Foreground Fill - White
Background Fill - #404040
On the Materials Palette, click on the Foreground Gradient Tab
Select Edit on the Material Properties pop-up.
The next pop-up will be the Gradient Editor.
Select the New button
A New Gradient pop-up will appear. Type the name you want to use. I called mine stripes.

  • On the Gradient Editor pop-up, look in the boxed area that says Gradient.
  • You will notice the Fore: will have the White Foreground color and the Back: will have the #404040.
  • Click on the crayon looking icon to the left and click on the Fore: box showing the white.
  • Click on the crayon looking icon to the left and click on the Fore: box showing the #404040.
  • Now click toward the center to add a new crayon looking icon. The placement should be at 50%. You can see this in the Location box.
  • Click a touch to the left of the center crayon icon to create another one.
  • Click on the Fore: box to make this one white.
  • Slide over to the Location of 50%.

Open a New Image I used 200 X 200
Flood fill with the gradient just created using the following settings:

  • Angle: 45
  • Repets: 10
  • Style: Linear
Effects - Distortion - Twirl
Degrees: 720
(Ctrl+Y) to repeat
Selections Tool - Click on Custom Selection
Type the following in the boxes:
  • Top and Left 30
  • Bottom and Right 170
Click on the Crop Tool
Snap to the Current Selections
Hit the Check to Apply
You can save to a location of your choice, but you also need to save to where you have your PSP8 or PSP9 Bump Map folder in PSP format. (PSP7 and below, you may want to use as the fill and apply a cutout).

PSP7 and below START HERE

Open a New Image 100 X 125
I like to leave the bottom layer and Flood Fill with White to help me see better.

WINGS
Foreground: Null Background: Color of your choice. I think darker shades of colors work better.(#0000ff) Preset Shapes - Circle - Create on Vector checked. Look at the coordinates at the bottom of the screen.

  • If you do not see the coordinates at the bottom of your PSP workspace, go to View - Toolbars - Status
Start at (X:5 Y:30)
Drag the circle out to (38 X 38)
Right click on the Vector Layer just created on Layer Palette and Convert to Raster.
Select All & Float (CtrlA & F)

PSP7 and below - You could Flood Fill with pattern and play with Cut Outs or Inner Bevels.

Effects - Artist Effects - Balls and bubbles
  • Shape Tab
    • Single Ball or bubble
    • Maximum possible size
  • Surface Tab
    • Material - Choose a darker color of your fill (#000264)
    • Opacity: 80
    • Shininess: 80
    • Gloss: 0
  • Maps Tab
    • Bump map - Click on drop down and select the swirl graphic created earlier.
    • Smoothness: 80
    • Depth: 100
    • Size: 50
  • Illumination Tab
    • See below

    Use the same as your background color (right click on color)
    There are no coordinates for the light position. Mine is a little above the center.
Select None (Ctrl+D)
Right click on this layer on the Layer Palette - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
SAVE

BODY
Preset Shape - Symmetric Shapes (Polygon) - Number of sides: 3 - Rounded Outer
PSP8 and below - Triangle - Double click on one of the nodes - Right click on node - Choose node edit Symmetrical. You want the corners rounded off.
Same background fill with Create as Vector checked.
Use the Object Selector Tool to help shape. I made mine longer and narrower.

Right click on this layer on the Layer Palette - Convert to Raster
Effects - 3D - Inner Bevel (You may want to play with depth a little since your graphic may vary in size and/or color.)

For lighter colors you may want to start with these settings, then adjust

Same color as the background fill.
SAVE

HEAD
Background: off White (#f0eeee) Preset Shapes - Circle - Create on Vector checked. Start at (X:30 Y:5)
Drag the circle out to (38 X 38)
Use Object Tool to move if you need to
Right click on the Vector Layer just created and Convert to Raster.
Use the Magic Wand to select head.
Selections - Modify - Expand 1
Effects - Artist Effects - Balls and bubbles

  • Shape Tab
    • Single Ball or bubble
    • Maximum possible size
  • Surface Tab
    • Material - Black
    • Opacity: 50
    • Shininess: 100
    • Gloss: 0
  • Maps Tab
    • Bump map
    • Nothing checked
  • Illumination Tab
    • See below

    Use the same as your background color (right click on color)
    There are no coordinates for the light position. Mine is a little above the center to the right.
SAVE

HALO
Preset Shape - Ellipse Foreground #ad7e2d.
Background - Null
. Create as vector
Width 3
Drag out elliptical shape
Use the Object Selector Tool to help shape and rotate.
Right click on the Vector Layer just created and Convert to Raster.
Effects - 3D - Inner Bevel

SAVE

You can hide all except the body and wings.
Right click on either layer on the Layer Palette - Merge Visible
Right click on layer on the Layer Palette - View All
Stay on Merged Layer - Colorize (Shift+L)

Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.

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