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Gingerbread Man
This tutorial was written using PSP7, but can probably be done in earlier versions with a few adjustments.
** Remember to save your work often! **
1. Open a transparent image 400 x 400. Set your foreground to Black.
2. Add a new Raster Layer (all layers will be Raster layers) and name it "body". Load the "jd-gingerbreadman" selection (Selections - Load from Disk). Flood fill  with Black. Go to Selections - Modify - Contract by 1. Fill with #BF7731. Keep selected.
3. Go to Effects - Texture Effects - Texture and use the settings below. The preset numbers are not the same for everyone, but if you click on the little arrow (where I have the circle in the screen shot below) and hold your cursor over the presets, you will see the name of each one. The one I used is "Granite".
4. Go to Selections - Modify - Expand by 1. Then Selections - Float. Go to Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout and use these settings:
Color Black
Opacity 65
Blur 25
Horizontal and Vertical 3.
5. Selections - Select None. Add a new layer and name it "icing". Change your foreground color to White. Select your Paintbrush  with these settings:
6. Paint some "icing" around the edges of the gingerbread man. With your Magic Wand  , Tolerence and Feather set to 0 and Sample Merged UNchecked, click inside the white "icing" to select it. Go to Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel and use these settings:
7. Add a new layer and name it "buttons". Using your Selection Tool  set to Circle and Antialias checked, draw a small circle and fill with white like below:
8. Add the same Inner Bevel as before. Selections - Select None.
9. Go to Edit - Copy, then Edit - Paste as New Selection. Do this until you have 4 buttons. Selections - Select None.
10. Go to Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow and use these settings:
Color Black
Opacity 35
Blur 5
Horizontal and Vertical 0.
11. Add a new layer and name it "face". Go back to your Paintbrush; leave all settings the same as before, except change the size to 15. Change your foreground color to #F4D0D0. Click 2 times for his cheeks as shown:
12. Go to Effects - Blur - Gaussian Blur and use a radius of 1.00.
13. With your Selection Tool, draw a small circle for an eye. Fill with Black and add an Inner Bevel using the Round preset from the Drop-down list. Edit - Copy; Edit - Paste as New Selection and move into place. Selections - Select None.
14. Make your background null  . Using your Draw Tool  set to Freehand Line, Width 2, Antialias checked, draw a line for his mouth.
15. Layers - Merge - Merge Visible. He is now ready to save as a tube (File - Export - Picture Tube) or in psp format for later use.
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