Koala Tutorial
Who doesn't like Koalas?This image was made with PSP 8, but can be done in earlier versions.
You will need the koala file, the free version of Eye Candy, Fantastic Machine's Paint Engine, a leaf tube, and a nice wood texture. There are lots of them here.
Koalas come in all sorts of colours, so feel free to use any colours you like. We will not be using the all the colours, but all the colours are koala colours. :-)
The terms of use are here
Selections - Load/Save Selections - Load Selection from Alpha Channel
Click on the selection you want and then on Load
1. Right-click on the colour palette above, and keep it open on your work space. Then open the koala file you downloaded, and click on the Background layer. Flood-fill it with a colour like #3B76FD. This layer is just there so you can see the white selections, and you can delete it at the end.
2. Tree layer - Flood-fill with your wood pattern and then go to:
, Width 8
Smoothness 40, Depth 2, Ambience 42, Shininess 10
Angle 315, Intensity 50, Elevation 30.
2a. Leaves layer - We'll come back to this later.
3. Body - Flood-fill with Colour #4. Then set your Foreground to #2. Click on the
Then click on the Airbrush Tool
and use these settings:
Click a few times on the body selection
Change the Foreground colour to #3 and click a few times on the body.
We'll come back to this layer and finish the body.
4. Chest - Flood-fill with Colour #8. Then go to:
Bubble Size 5
Warp Amount 7
Twist 3
Brownian Motion
5. Leg - Flood-fill with Colour #4. Click on the Airbrush, using the same settings, and click on the leg, first with Colour #1, and then with Colour #3.
Deselect (CTRL-D)
Apply the same Eye Candy Jiggle effect again.
6. Foot - Flood-fill with Colour #8. Click on the Smudge Tool
, and use these settings:
Smudge a little into the arm to get rid of the sharp difference.
7. Arm Hand - Follow the same directions as for the Leg in Step 4. (Just click on the dark colour several more times, so the arm will be darker.) This selection is out of order--it is the lat one.
8. Nails - Flood-fill with black.
9. Now we can go back to the Body layer. Click on the layer and get the Body selection again. Then, using the Smudge tool again, with the same settings, smudge up and down until you like the look of the fur.
10. Outer Ears - Flood-fill with Colour #3. We'll come back to this layer later.
11. Outer Ears 1 - Flood-fill with Colour #1. Change the Foreground colour to #3, and, using the Airbrush Tool, spray the selections. We'll come back to this, too.
10. Inner Ears - Flood-fill with Colour #2, and we'll come back.
12. Head - Flood-fill with Colour #1, and keep selected. Change the Foreground colour to #3. Then click on the Airbrush Tool
and use these settings:
Click three or four times on the head
Effects - Plugins - Fantastic Machines - Paint Engine - Embossy preset
Deselect (CTRL-D)
Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy - Jiggle - Preset Twisty
Bubble Size 5
Warp Amount 7
Twist 3
Brownian Motion
13. Now, we'll go back to those ear layers. Click on the Outer Ears layer. Then click on the Smudge Tool, using the same settings as before, and smudge from the ear out. Just smudge the tops of the ears a little bit. Go wild with the rest. Your ears should look wild and woolly!
13a. Click on the Outer Ears 1 layer and smudge the same way, except change the Size to 5.
13b. Click on the Inner Ears layer and smudge.
14. Lower Chin - Flood-fill with #2 and lower the Opacity of the layer, by using the slider in the Layer Pallette, to around 30.
15. Face Marking - Flood-fill with Colour #3.
16. Mouth - Flood-fill with #5 and lower the Opacity of the layer to 65.
17. Nose Marking - Flood-fill with black and lower the Opacity of the layer to 52.
18. Nose - Flood-fill with black.
Change the Depth to 5 and apply.
19. Eye Marking - Flood-fill with Colour #9. Reduce the Opacity of the layer to 50.
20. Left Eye - Flood-fill with black and go to
Change the Shininess to 70
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
Use the Mover Tool
to put the eye in place.21. Upper Lip - Do not flood-fill, just go to
V 2, H 0, Opacity 35, Blur 3, Colour black.
22. Leaves layer. Click on the Tube Tool
and get your leaf tube. Make the Scale large enough so that you have large leaves, and click to place the leaves on your canvas.
If you wish, you can use the Eraser Tool, with any setting, to erase parts of the leaves that cover the branches, so it looks as though the leaf is behind the branch:
23. Now, if you wish, you can delete the Background layer.
Congratulations for finishing the tutorial. I hope you like your Koala!
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