Hair tut by magenta

Hair tut by magenta.......

made for lady nighthawk, a basic knowledge of psp is needed to follow this tut. Best done with Psp 7.04

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Open your doll base in paint shop pro

open your paint brush tool and set your settings like this:

next select a starting color I suggest the darkest shade of the color you would like to use and draw an outline on the scalp and fill with a lighter color using the flood fill tool

next draw the outline of the rest of the hair... bun, pony tail, long wavy hair..

now add darker lines

and flood fill

now using your retouch tool we are going to add some highlights and darken lights

your doll will look somthing like this...

feel free to add a few wavy lines if you like to make some little curly hairs..using the same setting for your paintbrush as we did to draw the outlines of the hair

at this point you can use the soften setting on the retouch tool to soften it... added more darker and lighter highlights if you like. You can play around with the lighten, darken, soften, smudge.. untill you get what you like...

If you want your doll transparent click on the white (or background color) of your graphic with the magic wand tool, go to selections and invert, selections promote to layer, then delete your original layer and export as gif. There is another way to make it transparent if you don't have any of the same color in your doll as the background such as white on my doll above.. make sure you only have one layer and go to file>export>as gif and make trasparent (the color of your background such as white in my doll above)...

Also remember you can use these tricks for clothing as well.... trace the outlines in a darker color, insides in a lighter color or texture and use the retouch tool for highlights and darkens... you can enhance your body's curves this way

try my pants tut: Pants Tut

I will write a more in depth tutorial for this soon. if you need help don't hesitate to ask laura@dollicious.com .