Gingerbread
Football Player

Ginberbread Football Player
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This tutorial uses a different technique.  You will only see the canvas in the downloaded file.  Everything you need is on the canvas.  Make sure you have your Layer Palette visible.  You will Load from the Alpha Channel (not Selections).

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GINGERBREAD BASE
Please go HERE and complete the base for all the gingerbread series.
Have the image open and ready to use along with the open canvas for this tutorial.

Open Gingerbread Football Player ©2004 Carla Polston canvas

Duplicate (Shift D) and close original to save for another use.
Save in PSP format and name as you wish.

I left a background layer.
You may want to flood fill to help you see better.
You can delete this layer before merging.
Have you Layer Palette open

GINGERBREAD
Click on gb base-cp layer on Layer Palette.
Selections – Load from Alpha Channel – gb base-cp
Click on the premade base image (Ctrl C) to copy.
Click back on the gingerbread base layer of the new image (Ctrl+Shift+L) to paste into selection.

FOOTBALL
Click on football-cp layer on Layer Palette.
Selections – Load from Alpha Channel – football1-cp
Flood Fill #A64E00
Selections – Load from Alpha Channel – football2-cp
Flood Fill #F0EBE4
Selections – Load from Alpha Channel – detail1-cp
Adjust Brightness/Contrast (Shift+B)

  • Brightness (-75)
  • Contrast 0
Select None (Ctrl+D)
Adjust - Add Noise
  • (PSP 6 & 7) Uniform 10
  • (PSP8) Uniform 8 & Check Monochrome
SAVE

HELMET
Click on helmet-cp layer on Layer Palette.
Selections – Load from Alpha Channel – helmet1-cp
Flood Fill with your team's color (#8F1107)
Selections – Load from Alpha Channel – helmet2-cp
Flood Fill with your team's color (#D5AB45)
Selections – Load from Alpha Channel – detail2-cp
Adjust Brightness/Contrast (Shift+B)

  • Brightness (-100) Will vary depending on color used
  • Contrast 0
Selections – Load from Alpha Channel – helmet3-cp
Flood Fill #F0EBE4
Selections – Load from Alpha Channel – detail3-cp
Adjust Brightness/Contrast
  • Brightness (-100) Will vary depending on color used
  • Contrast 0
SAVE

BANNER
Click on banner1-cp layer on Layer Palette.
Selections – Load from Alpha Channel – banner1-cp
Flood Fill with your team's color (#8F1107)
Selections - Modify - Contract 3 Flood Fill with your team's color (#D5AB45)
Selections – Load from Alpha Channel – banner2-cp
Flood Fill with your team's color (#8F1107)
Selections – Load from Alpha Channel – banner3-cp
Flood Fill #713D1B
Selections – Load from Alpha Channel – detail4-cp
Adjust Brightness/Contrast

  • Brightness (-50)
  • Contrast 0
SAVE

You may delete background layer (bottom layer), merge visible and SAVE!

Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.

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