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For this tutorial you will need Jasc PSP 8 .

You will need the canvas here.

I used  gradient mqc-snow from Nanson's PSP Gradients.

 

This is the air brush settings I use.

This is the smudge settings I use.

1. Load body alpha channel flood fill with mqc-snow gradient.

2. Load scales alpha channel flood fill with color 1. Use soften tool to soften the edges.

3. Click on body layer and add new layer. You want to be working under the scales layer.  Load body alpha channel again. Change to air brush and paint as in screen shot. Use soften tool to soften.

4. Keep selected and add new layer. Air brush around bottom and top back and tail. Smudge moving toward back of tail. Add new layer use draw tool set at 2 and draw in lines as in screen shot using color 3. Gaussian blur 2. Add new layer load body alpha channel. Air brush about body as in screen shot.

Smudge to blend shading.

5. Load Markings alpha channel. Add new layer. Flood fill with color 4. Use soften tool to soften.

6. Load eye alpha channel. Add new layer.  Flood fill with color 1, click float apply cutout horizontal and vertical 0, opacity 100, blur 8, color #656047. Keep selected. Selections/modify/contract 7 click float and apply cutout. De-select. Lock in transparence by clicking the lock in the layers pallet. Use color 4 to paint in like screen shot. Add white dot and soften.

7. Click on scales layer. Add new layer and load body alpha channel. We want to add some shading on top of the scales now. Use color 4 and air brush around as in screen shot.

8. Add new layer using color 3 draw some lines for fin as in screen shot. Gaussian blur 2. Use same color to add some lines around mouth area. Make him some fish lips. LOL I used size 2 or 3 for the fin and mouth lines. Use color 6 to add some shading in front of fin and on tale.

I added some white to the top areas for some high light.

 

Hope everyone had fun with this.

Susi

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