HORACE HOG

Created February 28, 2002 © Copyright Moon's Designs
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I received a sampler of Country Woman magazine and it had this cute little pig magnet in the crafts section. I couldn't imagine what anyone would do with it, if I tried to recreate it and write a tutorial, until I was describing it to Beckie. She thought it would make a great sigtag for one thing so I set out to recreate it.

This tutorial will be using only PSP tools. We will be creating our own vector heart (oh dear! I hear some gasps in the audience) and saving the heart to our preset shapes. This is a good learning tutorial and will have a lot of screenshots. I have reduced and optimized the screenshots for faster loading.

This tutorial is written in and for PSP Version 7.04 and assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP at an intermediate level. I am sure this can easily be done in Version 6 with a few adjustments in paths but I have only used Version 7 so I can't make promises *S*

JASC's PSP (30 day free trial)- You can get it HERE
As an option I do use EyeCandy4000 Glass when doing the eyes. I show both the cutout and the glass settings. EyeCandy4000 Glass is part of the demo download and you can try it out HERE.

Please SAVE your work often!!

Step 1:
Open a new image, 400x400, transparent background, 16 million colors. This is a large canvas size, but we need room to work and we will resize it later. Set your foreground to NULL and your background to a pink. I used #F3C3C3. Open your preset shapes, , set to Ellipse, Create as Vector CHECKED.

Draw out a large round ellipse in the middle of your screen.

 

Activate your Object Selector tool and click on Node Edit in your Tool Options.

Click on the bottom node and move in each side so it creates a point at the bottom of your ellipse.

Click on your top node and move it down a little ways into the ellipse. Move the ends up as illustrated below. Play around with it until you are happy with your heart shape.

When you are satisfied with your heart shape, right click and Quit Node Editing.

Step 2:
Before we convert our heart to a Raster Layer, we want to Export it to our Preset Shapes. The first thing you want to do is go to your layer palette and click on the plus sign next to layer2. It will say Ellipse. Double click the Ellipse, vector properties will come up and rename your ellipse. I named mine md-heart ~~ that was original wasn't it? LOL

We will be using our heart later in this lesson. Go to Files-->Export-->Shape. A warning will come up, click on OK. It will then ask you to enter the file name. Name it the same as what you entered in the vector properties. Now open your preset shapes and scroll down until you see your shape. This will assure you that you exported it properly and you will know where to go find it when we need it later.

Step 3:
Okay, we have the hard part done now, *Grin*, and it wasn't really that hard was it? Go to Layers-->Convert to Raster and rename your layer head. Go to Images-->Flip. Now we have our head! Go to Effects-->Noise and enter 5, Uniform.

Go to Effects-->3D--Inner Bevel and apply the following settings:

Go to Effects-->3D--Drop Shadow and apply the following settings:

Save your work.

Step 4:
Add a new layer, name it nose. Pick up your preset shapes, set at Ellipse and UNcheck Create as Vector. (I hear sighs of relief don't I?) Holding down your shift key draw a large circle in the middle of your head layer.

Step 5:
Go to Selections-->Select All (Ctrl+A). Selections-->Float(Ctrl+F) Selections-->Defloat (Ctrl+Shift+F). It is VERY important that you do it this way or you won't be able to apply the OUTER bevel. Go to Effects-->3D-->Outer Bevel and apply the following settings:

Add your drop shadow, but change the Opacity to 65 and the blur to 19.8. Save.

Step 6:
Add a new layer, name it nostrils. Set your foreground AND background color to black. Open your text, set at Arial, size 28, Bold, Centered, Floating and Antialias Checked and type in a comma.

While it is floating move it to the middle right of your nose. Deselect when you are happy where it is placed. Go to Edit-->Copy (Ctrl+C). Edit-->Paste-->As New Selection (Ctrl+E). With your mover tool move it next to your first nostril, go to Images-->Mirror. You may have to move it again, if so, move it while it is still selected. When you are happy Deselect and Save.

Step 7:
We are now going to merge our nose and nostrils. Activate your layer palette, click on the glasses on layer1 and the head layer. A red X will appear on those two layers. Activate the nostril layer, go to Layers-->Merge-->Merge Visible. Rename your layer nose.

Step 8:
Activate your head layer and add a new layer, name it cheeks. Set your foreground color to a darker pink. I used #DD5B5B. Set your background to NULL. Pick up your Air Brush tool, , and use the following settings.

Dab on each side of his nose. Go to Effects-->Blur-->Gaussian Blur and enter the number 12.

Save.

 

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