Bunney's Reindeer Tag

Tutorial

This is a pretty simple tutorial using preset shapes. Never seen a rectangle reindeer?? LOL. Well this was inspired by a craft magazine I have so, I thought this would make a cute tag for Christmas. I used PSP 7 to create this tutorial, I do not see any reason why it can not be created in other version of PSP other then the shapes. I also used Texture Filter which you can download here.

Lets Begin

Open a new 500 by 600 (16.7 Million colors) transparent image. I like working with large images as you have probably noticed if you have tried my other tutorials. That way we can always resize them later.

Add a new raster layer and name this layer body. Set your foreground (styles) color to black, your background color needs to be a brown. I am using #BF896.

Using your preset shapes tool

browse to find your rectangle shape with these settings

Draw a rectangle shape for your reindeers body. Now using your draw tool

with these settings

Draw your stitches for the sides of your rectangle body like this

I added a texture effect here, you can do so by going to effects, plug-in filters, Texture, Texturizer, I used the sandstone with these settings

Add a new raster layer and name this layer head. Using your preset shapes tool this time we want to use the ellipse

Draw a circle shape for the reindeers head like this

Going back to your draw tool

same settings as before, only make small stitches going around the head this time. Then I added the same texturizer filter sandstone as we did for the body. This is what you should have

Add a new raster layer and name this layer leg. Using your preset shapes tool change your shape to the rectangle again with same settings as earlier, only this time we want to make a long rectangle for his leg like this

Do the same stitches like we did earlier using your draw tool same settings add the stitches going down the top and sides.

Now using your deformation tool rotate it to the right a little like this

Open your layer palette and drag your leg layer all the way below your body layer like this

Now you can edit copy edit paste as a new layer and then using your deformation tool your second leg you want to rotate it to the left like this

Do this two (2) more times for the front legs. Place them toward the front of your reindeer like this

Using your preset shapes tool this time using the ellipse with these settings ( make sure create as vector IS checked)

Draw a small circle shape for the reindeers tail. This time we need to edit it just a little. Using your object selector tool right click on the inside of your tail, then go to node edit, we want to drag one of the side nodes on the bottom up and outward like this

When you get your reindeers tail shaped the way you want it right click again on the inside and go to quit node editing. Then to layers convert to raster and name this layer tail.

Use your draw tool

still using the same settings as before and draw the small stitches going around the reindeers tail like this

Now to finish up lets move on to page 2. See this isn't so bad is it?? LOL.

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