This tutorial was written by Monti on November 10th 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

The Following Colour Chart.
Left click and when it opens right click then save as, then open in PSP.

Ok we are ready to start.

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN

You can drag this arrow down the page with you to keep your place in the tut.
Script provided by Dynamic Drive.

We will be be making the Hat 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 colour 3 on the outline colour chart (#DEC29E) or a colour of your choice and start to draw the bobble on the top of the hat.

Change the colours when shown on the outline.

When you have done all of the bobble outline in colour 3 change to colour 1 on the outline colour chart (#486046) or a colour of your choice and draw in the hat.

Finally change back to colour 3 on the outline colour chart (#DEC29E) or a colour of your choice and draw in the fur trim.

Step 2 Fills

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

Select colour 4 (#FFFFFF) on your colour chart and flood fill this selection.
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical= 0
Horizontal= 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 14
Shadow colour = Use your Bobble outline.(#DEC29E)
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Add noise - uniform and monochrome checked - 5%
Deselect.

Select your magic wand and click inside the fur trim of the hat.
Flood fill this selection with colour 4 (#FFFFFF).
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical= 0
Horizontal= 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 14
Shadow colour = Use your Fur outline.(#DEC29E)
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Add noise - uniform and monochrome checked - 5%
Deselect.

Step 3 Fills

Select your magic wand and click inside the hat.
Flood fill this selection with colour 2 (#64B75B).
Keep selected.
Selections float, Effects 3D effects, Cutout with the following settings
Vertical= 0
Horizontal= 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 16
Shadow colour = Use your hat outline.(#486046)
Make sure fill interior with colour is UNchecked.
Add noise - uniform and monochrome checked - 5%
Deselect.

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

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