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Banner Mouse
by
MOE

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To make this banner mouse, all you need is PSP.

1.  Open a blank canvas of 100 X 100 pixels.  Flood fill this with white and them make a second raster layer.  This is the layer that we will be drawing on so make sure it is the active layer by clicking on it.

2.  Draw the outline.  These are the colors that I chose but please feel free to to pick your own.

Body: #COCOCO
Banner: #66F8CD
Tail and Feet: #F1B8AF

4.  Pick your flood fill tool and making sure that the 'sample merged' box is checked, fill in your mouse.
These are the colors that I chose:

Body, tail and feet: #FFFFFF
Banner: #C5F1E4

NOW FOR THE SHADING

5.  With your magic wand, select the head.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = 2
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 80
Blur = 9
Shade = #C0C0C0

Deselect.

6.  With your magic wand, select the arms.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = 2
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 70
Blur = 5
Shade = #C0C0C0

Deselect.

7.  With your magic wand, select the legs.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 75
Blur = 6
Shade = #C0C0C0

Repeat this cutout changing the horizontal to -1 (minus one)

Deselect.

8.  With your magic wand, select the banner.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 70
Blur = 9
Shade = #OED69B

Deselect.

9.  With your magic wand, select the tail.

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = -2
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 100
Blur = 4
Shade = #F1B8AF

Repeat this cutout changing the vertical to 1.

Deselect.

10.  With your magic wand, select the left foot (Your left).

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 90
Blur = 4
Shade = #F1B8AF

Repeat this cutout changing the horizontal to -1 (minus one).

Deselect.

11.  With your magic wand, select the right foot (your right).

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 90
Blur = 4
Shade = #F1B8AF

Repeat this cutout changing the Horizontal to 1- (minus one)

Deselect.

12.  Make a third raster layer and draw in the features.

These are the colors that I chose:

Eye brow/mouth/nose: #C0C0C0
Teeth outline: #EAC995
Teeth 'inside': #FFFFFF
Pink of eyes: #E36251
'white' of eyes: #F8DFDC
Ears: #F1B8AF

13.  Fill in both of the inner of the ears with #F8DFDC

14.  With your magic wand, select the left inner ear (Your left).

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = -1
Horizontal = -1
Opacity = 90
Blur = 3
Shade = #F1B8AF

Deselect.

15.  With your magic wand, select the right inner ear (Your right).

Selections > Float > Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.

With these settings:

Vertical = -1
Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 90
Blur = 3
Shade = #F1B8AF

Deselect.

16.  Hide the very bottom layer (the one we filled in with white) and then merge visible.

Save as a psp. file.

That's it...... You're done!

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and found it easy to follow.  If you have any problems or questions feel free to email me.

Please be kind enough to sign my guest book on my home page so that I know you were here.

THANK YOU

www.moejbj.co.uk

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Please do not link directly to this tutorial, please link to my home page. You may print it out for your own personal use, but do not copy it in any way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write without my permission.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental.
This tutorial was written 20 August 2004.

Thank you,  İMOE