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of use.
Screen shots were taken fromPSP7 and as such copyright
belongs to JASC
This tutorial was written as a tribute
to Jasper, our beloved Westie :o)
I came across a great
tut site offering some smudge tutorials which gave me
the idea to write this one. If you have time visit Doneta's
great site :o)
You will need my westie
selections, download here
and my fur jpg, download here
OK, lets role up our
sleeves and get creating.
1. Open an new image
300x400 with a transparent background.
2. Add a new raster
layer naming it body. Go to selections/load from disc and
open westiebod.sel. Flood fill with the fur.jpg.
Selections/select none.
3. Add a new raster
layer naming it legs. Go to selections/load from disc and
open westielegs.sel. Flood fill with the fur.jpg.
Selections/select none.
4. Add a new raster
layer naming it ears. Go to selections/load from disc and
open westieears.sel. Flood fill with the fur.jpg.
Selections/select none.
5. Add a new raster
layer naming it mouth. Go to selections/load from disc and
open westiemouth.sel. Flood fill with the fur.jpg.
Selections/select none.
6. Add a new raster
layer naming it tongue. Go to selections/load from disc
and open westietongue.sel. Flood fill with a pink colour,
I used #D48E8C. Using the retouch
tool set to darken RGB and use these settings.
Darken the top of the tongue and then
reduce the size of the brush to 2 and make a line down the
middle of the tongue. Change the retouch tool to lighten
RGB with these settings
Lighten the right and left hand sides and
to the side of the darkened line. Change the retouch tool
to soften with these settings
Soften the tongue.
 
Selections/select none.
7. Add
a new raster layer naming it head. Go to selections/load
from disc and open westiehead.sel. Flood fill with the
fur.jpg. Selections/select none.
8. Add
a new raster layer naming it eyes. Go to selections/load
from disc and open westieeyes.sel. Flood fill with black.
Go to effect/3d effects/inner bevel and apply the round
preset. Selections/select none. With the retouch tool set
to soften with the same settings as before but reducing
the brush size to 5, magnify your image and soften the
edges of the eyes.
9. Add
a new raster layer naming it nose. Go to selections/load
from disc and open westienose.sel. Flood fill with black.
Selections/select none.
10. Add
a new raster layer naming it nostril. Go to
selections/load from disc and open westienostrils.sel.
Flood fill with black. Click on your nose layer and hit
delete. Selections/select none. Go to effects/3d
effects/inner bevel and apply the round preset changing
the light angle to 345. With the retouch tool set to
soften with the same settings as before but reducing the
brush size to 5, magnify your image and soften the edges
of the nose.
This is what your image should look like.
Not much I know but that will soon change.
11. Click on the
body layer to make it active. Use the retouch tool to
darken RGB at the same settings as before but changing the
brush size to 15 darken the areas either side of the legs.
Change the retouch tool to soften, using the same settings
but changing the brush size to 15 soften the areas you
have darken. Now click on the leg layer and darken the
inside and the top of the legs with the retouch tool.
Change the retouch tool to lighten RGB with the same
settings, brush size 15 and lighten the top of the legs
shape and the outside of the legs. When you are done
change the retouch tool to soften and soften the lighter
and darker areas. Now click on the mouth layer and darken
the entire area, softening when you have finished. Click
on the head layer and darken the outside of the eyes.
Change the retouch tool to lighten RGB and lighten the top
and outside of the head soften all the changes areas when
you are done. Click the ear layer and darken the inside of
the ears, soften the entire ear even the outer edges. Here
is a screen shot of what I have so far.
Pretty, aint he...........LOL
12. OK, now we start to smudge the
fur. I have seen tuts where you merge all the visible
layers and then use the smudge tool but I found it easier
to work on all the individual layers. Change the retouch
tool to smudge with these settings
Starting on the legs layer pull the fur
about. Don't worry about trying to be neat, whenever have
you seen a truly neat Westie apart from at a dog show *s*
When you are happy with the legs move on to the body. It
may be helpful to create a new layer at the very bottom
and flood fill with black so that you can see exactly what
you are doing. Then smudge the mouth and the head layers.
Don't forget when you are manipulating the fur on the head
that Westie's have a natural parting on their nose and that
they have eye brows. OK, when you are happy with your
Westie, turn off the coloured layer if you made one and
merge visible. Change the size of the retouch tool to 2,
magnify your image and pull some small strands of fur over
the eyes.
And there you have one handsome Westie.
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