PART IV 
Adding Color to Your Basic Bear Shape

1. Change your foreground color to the color you'd like to make your bear.  I'm using #E6B64E. 

2. Make sure your bear layer is active and  Select All, then click  Select from Object.  You should now have the shape of your bear selected and you should see the "marching ants" around your selection.

3. Add a new raster layer to your image and name it "bear color".

4. Flood fill your selected area with your bear color:

(image shown at actual size)

Save

5. Add a new raster layer and name it "shadows".

6. Make your bear layer active and expand the layer so you can see all the different parts of your bear.

7. Click on your "left foot" object and holding your shift key click on your "left leg" object, then click  Select from Object.

8. Click  Invert Selection.

9. Make your "shadow" layer active and click  Drop Shadow and use the following settings:

10. Repeat your drop shadow, changing the vertical and horizontal to -5.

  Save

11. Repeat steps 7-10 for your left arm and right arm, using the same drop shadow settings.

12. Repeat steps 7-10 for your left ear and right ear, using the following drop shadow settings:

  Save

13. Make your bear layer active and click on your "body" object, then click  Select from Object.

14. Make your "shadow" layer active and click Cut (or delete).

15. Click  Invert Selection.

16. Click  Drop Shadow and use the following settings:

17. Repeat your drop shadow, changing the vertical and horizontal to -10.

  Save

18. Make your bear layer active and click on your "head" object, then click  Select from Object.

19. Make your "shadow" layer active and click Cut (or delete).

20. Click  Invert Selection.

21. Click  Drop Shadow and use the same settings you used for the body.

22. Apply a  Drop Shadow again, changing the Horizontal and Vertical to -10.

  Save

23. Make your bear layer active and click on your "right foot" object, then click  Select from Object.

24. Make your "shadow" layer active and click Cut (or delete).

25. Click  Invert Selection.

26. Click  Drop Shadow and use the following settings:

27. Repeat your drop shadow, changing the vertical and horizontal to -10.

28. Click  Select None. You should now have an image similar to this:

  Save

That's it for most of the shading so...

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