This tutorial was written by Monti on November 11th 2007. It's concept is copyrighted to Monti. Any creation you make from my ideas are yours. You may print out this tutorial for your own personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or rewrite without my permission or worse yet attempt to claim as your own.

For this tutorial you will need

Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop

Ok we are ready to start.

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN

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Script provided by Dynamic Drive.

We will be be making the Bow shown above. The outline below have been resized a lot so you can see it clearly.
To make this easier I have numbered all pixels over 1.

Step 1:

Open a new image 150 x 150 transparent.
Select the brush tool with the following settings.
Size = 1
Hardness, Opacity and Density = 100
Zoom in to about 800% - 1000%
Set your foreground to a dark colour of your choice (I used #6F3334) and start to draw your outline.

Step 2 Fills

When your outline is complete, select your magic wand with the following settings and click inside the middle knot.

Select a light colour of your choice (I used #A74F51) and flood fill this selection.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical= 0
Horizontal= 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 3
Shadow colour = Use your Bow outline.
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.

Step 3 Fills

Select your magic wand and click inside the left main bow.
Flood fill this selection with your light colour.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical= -2
Horizontal= 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 3
Shadow colour = Use your Bow outline.
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.

Repeat for the other side.

Step 4 Fills

Select your magic wand and click inside the left top part of the bow.
Flood fill this selection with your light colour.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical= -2
Horizontal= 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 2
Shadow colour = Use your Bow outline.
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.

Repeat for the other side.

Step 5 Fills

Select your magic wand and click inside the left ribbon.
Flood fill this selection with your light colour.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical= 0
Horizontal= -2
Opacity = 100
Blur = 3
Shadow colour = Use your Bow outline.
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.

Step 6 Fills

Select your magic wand and click inside the right ribbon.
Flood fill this selection with your light colour.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical= 0
Horizontal= 2
Opacity = 100
Blur = 3
Shadow colour = Use your Bow outline.
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Deselect.

Merge all visible and open animation shop.
Copy and paste into animation shop and save as a .gif.

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