The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce you to pixel drawing/painting and also teach you how the cutout effect works for colouring, and how to use the colour replacer tool

This tutorial should work in all versions of PSP, but was written in 7, so some tools may be named differently or may be in different place

Open a new image 200x200 and floodfill with white Set your foreground colour to #404040 Using your paintbrush tool on size 1 zoom in a few times and follow the guide below to draw the outline of your duck (copy and paste outline pic into your psp if this is easier than going back and forth to this page) All lines above 2 pixels are numbered All done? Right let's colour him in! Using your magic wand, click inside all areas of head and body (except feet and beak). Go to Effects/3D Effects/Cutout and apply the following colours and settings and click ok Now click inside top half of brolly and apply cutout with these settings and colours Now click inside bottom half of brolly and use same cutout effect again Now click with wand all areas of brolly handle and use the following cutout Click inside all areas of feet and beak and apply following cutout Recolour outline this part is optional but I think it finishes it off and looks nicer Set your background colour to #404040 and your foreground to#4E4866 and then using the colour replacer tool with the following settings.... ....go round the edges of the brolly, don't worry about hitting the inside of the outline, the tool will only replace the black outline, no other colour, but take care you only replace the outside of brolly. Now change your foreground colour to #FDD82D and using the colour replacer go round the edge of all the body area Change colour again to #EB9705 and go round feet and beak, then change colour to 989292 and go round edge of handle You may need to use your paintbrush at this point to touch up any overlaps made with colour replacer Once you are happy with your work, use magic wand and click outside your duck and hit delete to erase white background Save as gif and also psp file for future use This tutorial was written by Kim for ©Kims Design May 21st 2006 It remains the property of ©Kims Design and must NOT be copied, redistributed, recreated or sold You may print to MS Word for personal use