*** CREATING SELECTIONS FROM OUR SHAPES ***

You may be perfectly happy with your lion shape as it is. In these next sections we will be changing the appearance and creating a picture tube from our image. You can stop now...but I hope you continue and gain more knowledge from the following sections of the tutorial. 1. We will be making selections from our various shapes and saving them to the alpha channel.  Your alpha channel will remain intact as long as you save your image as a psp file From the Jasc site: "The Alpha Channel is a grayscale channel for storing selections and masks that can be reloaded into an image." There are probably as many ways to accomplish these steps as there are tutorial writers, but this is the method I chose for this tutorial. 2.  Make sure your Layer Palette is expanded so that you can access all your different shapes. 3. Click on your "tail" object to make it active. 4. Click on Select from Object; then Alpha Save Selection. In the first box click OK, in the second box type in "tail" for the name of your selection: 5. Click on your "tail end" object to make it active. 6. Click on Select from Object; then Alpha Save Selection. In the first box click OK, in the second box type in "tail end" for the name of your selection.   Save 7. Click on your "left leg" object and while holding down your shift key, click on your "right leg" and "body" objects in the layer palette. 8. Click on Select from Object; then Alpha Save Selection. In the first box click OK, in the second box type in "body and legs" for the name of your selection. 9. Click on your "Heart 1" object. 10. Click on Select from Object; then Alpha Save Selection. In the first box click OK, in the second box type in "heart" for the name of your selection. 11. Click on your "left arm" object and while holding down your shift key, click on your "right arm" object in the layer palette. 12. Click on Select from Object; then Alpha Save Selection. In the first box click OK, in the second box type in "arms" for the name of your selection.   Save 13. Click on your "mane" object. 14. Click on Select from Object; then Alpha Save Selection. In the first box click OK, in the second box type in "mane" for the name of your selection. 15. Click on your "tongue" object. 16. Click on Select from Object; then Alpha Save Selection. In the first box click OK, in the second box type in "tongue" for the name of your selection. 17. In the "face" group we want to click on these objects while holding down the shift key: "face", "right cheek", "left cheek", "right ear", and "left ear". 18. Click on Select from Object; then Alpha Save Selection. In the first box click OK, in the second box type in "face" for the name of your selection.   Save 19. Next in the "face" group we want to click on the "Left inner ear" and "left inner ear" while holding down the shift key. 20. Click on Select from Object; then Alpha Save Selection. In the first box click OK, in the second box type in "inner ears" for the name of your selection. 21. Click on your "nose" object. 22. Click on Select from Object; then Alpha Save Selection. In the first box click OK, in the second box type in "nose" for the name of your selection. 23. Click on your "face details" GROUP. 24. Click on Select from Object; then Alpha Save Selection. In the first box click OK, in the second box type in "face details" for the name of your selection. 25. You may repeat this process for your text; however it will be just as easy to add new text later.   Save As long as you save your image as a .psp file in PSP 7 compatible mode your Alpha Channel will remain intact with all your selections available whenever you open your image in Paint Shop Pro 7.

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*** CREATING A TUBE FROM OUR IMAGE ***

Now we will use our selections to create a brand new lion!!!   1. Click on  Add Raster Layer and name your new layer "tail". 2. Click on  Alpha Load Selection and click on the selection "tail", then click OK: 4. Change your foreground color to black and your background to the cc_lion gradient you downloaded, with the following settings: 5. Click on your  Flood Fill Tool and left click inside your selection to fill with black. 6. Click on  Contract Selection and contract your selection by 1 pixel. 7. Right click inside your selection to flood fill with your gradient. 8. Click on  Alpha Load Selection and click on the selection "tail end", then click OK. 9. Flood fill with black. 10. Click on  Contract Selection and contract your selection by 1 pixel. 11. Change your foreground color to #785736 and flood fill. 12. Change your foreground color back to black.   Save 13. Click on  Add Raster Layer and name your new layer "body". 14. Click on  Alpha Load Selection and click on the selection "body and legs", then click OK. 15. Flood fill with black. 16. Click on  Contract Selection and contract your selection by 1 pixel. 17. Flood fill with your gradient. 18. Click on  Add Raster Layer and name your new layer "tummy". 19. Click on  Alpha Load Selection and click on the selection "tummy", then click OK. 20. Flood fill your selection with black. 21. Click on  Contract Selection and contract your selection by 1 pixel. 22. Change your foreground color to #FDEDD5 and flood fill your selection. 23. Change your foreground color back to black.   Save 24. Click on  Add Raster Layer and name your new layer "heart". 25. Click on  Alpha Load Selection and click on the selection "heart", then click OK. 26. Flood fill your selection with black. 27. Click on  Contract Selection and contract your selection by 1 pixel. 28. Change your foreground color to #EE4B4B and flood fill your selection. 29. Apply an Inner Bevel with the following settings: 30. Apply a drop shadow with the following settings: Vertical and Horizontal: 5; Opacity: 50; Blur: 15; Color: Black 31. Change your foreground color back to black. 32. Click on  Add Raster Layer and name your new layer "arms". 33. Click on  Alpha Load Selection and click on the selection "arms", then click OK. 34. Flood fill your selection with black. 35. Click on  Contract Selection and contract your selection by 1 pixel. 36. Right click inside your selection to flood fill with your gradient.  This is what I have so far:   Save 37. Click on  Add Raster Layer and name your new layer "mane". 38. Click on  Alpha Load Selection and click on the selection "mane", then click OK. 39. Flood fill your selection with black. 40. Click on  Contract Selection and contract your selection by 1 pixel. 41. Change your foreground color to #A07246 and flood fill your selection. 42. Click on  Add Raster Layer and name your new layer "mane details". 43. Click on  Alpha Load Selection and click on the selection "mane details", then click OK. 44. Click on Feather Selection and feather by 4 pixels. 45. Change your foreground color to #F8CE89 and flood fill your selection twice. 46. Click on  Alpha Load Selection and click on the selection "mane details", then click OK. 47. Change your foreground color to black and flood fill your selection. 48. Click on  Add Raster Layer and name your new layer "tongue". 49. Click on  Alpha Load Selection and click on the selection "tongue", then click OK. 50. Flood fill your selection with black. 51. Click on  Contract Selection and contract your selection by 1 pixel. 52. Change your foreground color to #F0A2CA and flood fill your selection. 53. Change your foreground color back to black.   Save 54. Click on  Add Raster Layer and name your new layer "face". 55. Click on  Alpha Load Selection and click on the selection "face", then click OK. 56. Flood fill your selection with black. 57. Click on  Contract Selection and contract your selection by 1 pixel. 58. Right click inside your selection to flood fill with your gradient. 59. Click on  Add Raster Layer and name your new layer "inner ears". 60. Click on  Alpha Load Selection and click on the selection "inner ears", then click OK. 61. Flood fill your selection with black. 62. Click on  Contract Selection and contract your selection by 1 pixel. 63. Change your foreground color to #F0A2CA and flood fill your selection. 64. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel and choose the Round preset from the drop-down menu. 65. Change your foreground color back to black.   Save 66. Click on  Add Raster Layer and name your new layer "nose". 67. Click on  Alpha Load Selection and click on the selection "nose", then click OK. 68. Flood fill your selection with black. 69. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel and choose the Round preset from the drop-down menu. 70. Click on  Add Raster Layer and name your new layer "face details". 71. Click on  Alpha Load Selection and click on the selection "face details", then click OK. 72. Flood fill with black. 73. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel and choose the Round preset from the drop-down menu.  You should now have this: (Image reduced to 75%)   Save 74. Turn off the visibility for your vector "lion" layer. 75. Right click on any of your visible layers and choose Merge/Merge Visible from the fly-out menu. Rename this merged layer "lion2" 76. Click on  Add Raster Layer and name your new layer "details". 77. Turn off the visibility for your "lion2" layer.  Turn on the visibility for your "lion" (vector) layer and lower the opacity to 35: 78. Change your foreground color to #785736. 79. Make sure your "details" layer is active. 80. Click on your Paintbrush and use the following settings: 81. We need to add back some of the detail we lost when we created selections from our vector objects. Use your paintbrush to paint in the details for the fingers and toes. Zoom in on your image so you can see where to place the detail. I also added some additional lines to my main to increase the detail and drew some whiskers while I was at it. You can turn the visibility for you "lion2" layer on/off as you are working to check your detail. 82. When you are done adding your detail, apply a Gaussian Blur of 0.75. (Effects/Blur/Gaussian Blur). 83. Turn off the visibility for Layer1 and your vector "lion" layer. 84. Your "lion2" and "details" layers should be visible. 85. Right click on either of your two visible layers and choose Merge/Merge Visible form the fly-out menu. 86. Hold down your Ctrl key and type C (copy) then V (paste) to create a new image with you lion. 87. Click File/Export/Picture Tube and use the following settings (typing in a name of your choice): You now have a picture tube of your lion! CONGRATULATIONS! It is my sincere hope that by completing this tutorial you have added to your working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro. Cathy :)

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