Gingerbread Girl Selection Tutorial
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This tutorial is a little out of the norm for me as I don't feel that selection tutorials really teach you anything, but it was fun and I thought "what the heck!" a lot of people like to do these tutorials. The pattern was found in a tole painting book I purchased at Walmart so I don't claim it as my own, but the work in PSP is mine 
By the end of the tutorial you should at least be able to load and fill selections, do sort of a tole painting shade technique, and use color swatches, among other things. And for those really new to PSP you can learn to make a new toolbar and make your own tube.
She also has a brother and you can find his tutorial HERE
Don't want to do the tutorial but want the tube? Then go HERE and get it.
Resources- PSP 8. You can download a demo HERE.
- The selections. Download them HERE. Unzip them into your selections folder.
- **Optional** but recommended for ease Swatch of colors used. Download it HERE. Create a subfolder called "gingerbreadgirl" in your swatch folder then point PSP to it. Or save this image and open it in PSP.
Let's get started
*Please note: If you install this tutorial as a quick guide you may get a script error when trying to view the images, just click "yes" at the prompt and the images will show properly. Don't know how to install quick guides? then check out the tutorial found HERE.Since this tutorial requires you to do a lot of repetitious work it is best to make a custom toolbar for this project. (you can always delete it later). So let's go ahead and make one. You can skip this step if your workspace/toolbars are ergonomically efficient and you are comfortable with them.
Making a Custom toolbar for this project- Right click on any of your toolbars to bring up a flyout. Choose "Customize".
- Click on the toolbars tab then on New. Give your new toolbar any name you wish then click OK.
- Now click on the Commands tab and choose Selections in the left pane. Then drag the "Load selection from disk" to the newly created toolbar. Repeat for "Contract", and "Select None". Next click on "Layers" in the left pane and drag "Merge Down". Then Close.
Your toolbar should look like this 
. Just drag your new toolbar to a comfortable spot in your workspace.
The Gingerbread Girl
Unless otherwise stated all selections will be loaded, flood filled (FF) with black, selection contracted (cont) by 2, then flood filled (FF) again with a numbered color from the swatch.
- Open a new image 531 x 596px, white background, 72px res. Add a new raster layer called "details".
- Click on "Load from disk"
and load details selection. Flood fill(FF) 
with black (don't contract) Select none. Turn visibility off to this layer since we won't need it for a few more steps. - Add a new raster layer called "feet and hands". Load the feetandhands selection FF black, then click on the Contract (cont)
button on your toolbar and contract by 2. FF with color #1. While still selected add new raster layer. - Set foreground color to #2 and get the airbrush
tool with the following settings:
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Paint as shown below. Then change brush size to 20 and color to #3 and paint as shown below. Go to Adjust->blur->gaussian blur 9.90. Select none.
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- Load fandhtrim selection FF with black, contract by 1 then FF with color #6. Change foreground color to #4, get the airbrush tool size 36, density 22 and give the trim a few shots of colors (refer to finished image for placement). Select none. Merge layer down
. - Add new raster layer called "sleeves". Load the apronsleeves2 selection. FF black, cont 2, FF #4. Select none.
- Load the cuffs selection. FF black, cont 2, FF #5. Select none.
- Add a new raster layer Called "sleeve trim". Load sleevetrim selection. FF black, cont 2, FF #9. Select none.
- Add a new raster layer called "apron". Load the apronsleeves1 selection. FF black, cont 2, FF #5. While still selected, turn visibility on to the details layer and drag it up over this layer. Click back on the apron layer, change foreground color to #6, get the airbrush tool size 16, density back to 100 and give the detail on this portion of the sleeves some color. This is what you should have so far:
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Select none.
- While still on the apron layer, load the apron1 selection FF black, cont 2, FF #5. Give the details some color using the same settings as before. Select none.
- Load the pocket selection FF black, cont 2, FF# 5. Give it some color, same settings as before, as shown below. Select none.
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