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The Lady Mouse - Corel Paint Shop Pro Tutorial
Donnamarie J. Walker | 1 | 
| Download The Lady Mouse Selection files here. Right click, copy and paste as a new image The Lady Mouse Color Palette below, this will make it easier to switch between colors. Since this is a Selections tutorial, from this point on you will flood fill each selection with black, then Contract by 1 and fill with a different color unless otherwise stated. Open a new image, 310 x 750 Transparent, add a new layer and name it Back_Ear. Load the lady_mouse_back_ear.sel and fill with black. Contract by 1, use your Dropper and pick the second blue on the Color Palette and fill. Selections - Float and use this Cutout Setting: Horizontal & Vertical:0 - Opacity:51 - Blur:35 - Color: Black. Add Noise:3% and Deselect. Now is a good time to save your work in PSP format, name it Lady_Mouse. We are adding "Noise" because it helps smooth out those lines from the Cutout effect. New layer: Front_Hair and load the lady_mouse_front_hair.sel. Use your Dropper and choose the first yellow. Flood with black, contract by 1, fill with yellow. Selections - Float, do the Cutout, add Noise and deselect. Control S to save. | | 2 | 
| New layer: Hair and load the lady_mouse_hair.sel. Flood with black, contract by 1, fill with yellow. Selections - Float, Cutout, add Noise and deselect. New layer: Back_Arm and load the lady_mouse_back_arm.sel. Use your Dropper and choose the first blue on the Palette for your background color. Fill with black, contract by 1, fill with blue. Selections - Float, do the Cutout except change the Blur to 20, add Noise and deselect. Control S to save.
New layer: Tail and load the lady_mouse_tail.sel. Fill with black, contract by 1, fill with blue. Selections - Float, do the Cutout except change the Blur to 10, Noise and deselect. | | 3 | | New layer: Sleeve_Back and load the lady_mouse_back_sleeve.sel. Using your Dropper, choose the fourth red color in the Dress Palette for your background color, fill the selection with black, contract by 1 and fill with red. Selections - Float, do the Cutout except change the Blur to 20, add Noise and deselect. Control S.
New layer: Sleeve_Back_Edge and load the lady_mouse_back_sleeve_edge.sel. Use your Dropper and choose the tan color in the Dress Palette, fill the selection with black, contract by 1 and fill with tan. Selections - Float, do the Cutout, add Noise and deselect. Move this layer under the Sleeve.
Click on the Sleeve_Back layer then add a new layer: Glove_Left and load the lady_mouse_left_glove.sel. Choose the light yellow color fill with black first, contract by 1 and fill with yellow. Selections - Float, do the Cutout, add Noise and deselect. Control S to save once again. New layer: Dress and load the lady_mouse_dress.sel. Choose the first Orange color in the Dress Palette for your background color, fill the selection with black, contract by 1 and fill with orange. Selections - Float, do the Cutout but change the Blur to 35, add Noise and deselect.
New layer: Dress_Lace and load the lady_mouse_dress_lace.sel. Choose the tan color again for your background, fill with black, contract by 1 and fill with tan. Selections - Float, do the Cutout but change the Blur to 20, add Noise and deselect.
Use your Dropper and choose the second blue in the Palette. New layer: Neck and load the lady_mouse_neck.sel, fill with black, contract by 1 and fill with blue. Selections - Float, do the Cutout, Noise and deselect. Control S. | | 4 | | New layer: Front_Arm and load the lady_mouse_arm_front.sel, fill with black, contract by 1 and fill with blue. Selections - Float, do the Cutout Blur:10, Noise and deselect.
New layer: Front_Sleeve_Edge and load the lady_mouse_front_sleeve_edge.sel. Switch your background color to the tan once again. Fill with black, contract by 1 and fill with tan. Selections - Float, do the Cutout but change the Blur to 20, add Noise and deselect. Control S.
Change your background color to the fourth red color in the Dress Palette. Add a new layer: Front_Sleeve and load the lady_mouse_front_sleeve.sel. Fill with black, contract by 1 and fill with red. Selections - Float, do the Cutout and change the Blur to 35, add Noise and deselect.
New layer: Head and load the lady_mouse_head.sel, fill with black, contract by 1 and fill with the second blue color on the Palette. Selections - Float, do the Cutout, add Noise and deselect. Move this layer above the Neck layer if it is below it.
New layer: Inner_Ear and load the lady_mouse_inner_ear.sel. Switch your background color to the bright blue in the Palette, fill with black, contract by 1 and fill. Selections - Float, do the Cutout, add Noise and deselect. Control S to save.
New layer: Glove_Right and load the lady_mouse_right_glove.sel. Switch to your first yellow color, fill with black, contract by 1 and fill. Selections - Float, do the Cutout except change the Blur to 20, add Noise and deselect. | | 5 | 
| Switch back to the bright blue color, add a new layer: Eye and load the lady_mouse_eye.sel. Fill with black, contract by 1 and fill with blue. Selections - Float, do the Cutout, add Noise and deselect.
Add a layer: Inner_Eye1. Switch your background color to the second blue in the Eye Palette and using your Prest Shape, Circle, Stroked and Filled, Width:1, draw out a circle to fit within the eye shape. Add another layer: Inner_Eye2, switch to the green color and draw out another smaller circle. While on this layer use your Paint Brush, Round Size 7, Black and paint in a pupil. Switch to the bright green, Size 2, and dot on a highlight. Change your Brush size to 5 and click on the Inner_Eye2 layer and paint in a highlight. Switch to Inner_Eye1 and paint in a bright blue highlight. Dot both with white Size 2. Size 1 on the pupil. | | 6 | | New layer: Nose and load the lady_mouse_nose.sel. Fill with black. While still selected, use your Paint Brush, Size 5 Round White, and paint a spot on her nose. Go to Gaussian Blur: 1. Deselect and Control S.
Almost finished! Add a new layer: Details and load the lady_mouse_details.sel and fill with black. Deselect. Since I didn't much care for how the detail lines looked on her dress, I've erased them. Back to your Draw Tool - Single Line - Size 1 - Black and draw several lines on her gloves for fingers. You can add several to the Sleeve Edge, too. One more layer: Blush. Switch to your Paint Brush, choose the first Orange in the Dress Palette, Size 35 and click once for your blush on the cheek. Go to Gaussian Blur: 5. | | 7 | 
| At this point you can continue on and add whatever you'd to your Lady Mouse. You can add shading to brighten or darken any area. Just add a new layer when you want to add anything from flowers and pearls to your shading and move them as you need to. That way it is easier to remove or change something later on. Now save once more. I would duplicate the image, close the original, and finish working on The Lady Mouse and saving in your favorite format! For my Lady Mouse, I added a new layer for my Pearls. The Pearls were made using a circle with a Stroke of 1, Black and the yellow color of the gloves, then I copied and pasted each circle. For the Lace trim around the Neckline, Sleeves and Gloves I used a small black circle, Stroked and Width 1, Black. Copied and pasted these on their own layer. For me, while I am working, everything goes on its own layer and every layer has a name. Let's see.... I also added a Bow, which was done using the Draw Tool. I added small Buttons on her glove. Just one glove because you would not be able to see the Buttons on the other glove since it is facing away from you. And I finished off with one more layer for Details such as shading, lines on the sleeve, pink for the Inner Ear and details for the hair. All images shown are 50% of their actual size when finished. | | 8 | | I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial. This is one in a series of "Ladies" coming your way. I'd like to give credit where it is due. The original Lady Mouse clipart used for the model in this tutorial was provided by: 
The Big Box of Art by Hemera
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