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Beak Tutorial 1
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In this tutorial I will attempt to take you through step by step how I
made the little beaks you can see in the title. You can also view
some more examples near the bottom of this page, I have put a photo strip
of a little crow I made using variations of the one beak.
I used Paint shop pro7
and KPT's5 Shape Shifter to make them.
The steps below are meant as a guide you don't have to follow them to
the letter, there are several places where you could experiment with your
own settings.
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download, duplicate, copy, upload to another server, or distribute it in
any other way, except in the form of a link to Tutorial Index page. You may however Print
a personal copy out for ease of use while following it.
Ok now
on with the tutorial:
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Open New Image
250x250 background transparent.
set your foreground colour to null and set your background colour to
the colour you want for your beak ( I chose orange for this one)
Click your preset shapes tool  ,
and choose ellipse, with these settings:
Retain style= Unchecked
Antialias= Checked
Creat as vector= Checked
Draw an ellipse.
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Now click on
your Object selector tool and choose node edit. Refer to image
for movement of nodes. I pulled the side nodes out and up,
then pulled the bottom node down a little to achieve the shape for
the beak.
(you can experiment a bit with shapes if you wish)
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Once you're
happy with the shape for your beak, right click on the beak layer in
your layer palette and from the drop down menu choose.. Convert to
raster. Now go to selections/ select all..... then
selections/float.
OR shortcut keys: Ctrl+A then Ctrl+F |
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your beak selected.. go into effects/plugins/KPT 5 /shapeshifter,
select coolkitchen for your environment, and set your environment
colour to one that matches your beak colour. make sure both your
shadow and glow options are switched off! Here are the
settings I used.... you are aiming for a nicely rounded
shape..... when you like the look of your beak click on the
tick in the bottom right-hand corner to return to PSP |
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Selections/select
none.
change your foreground colour to Black and background colour to
Null.
then click on your draw tool, set to Freehand line, width 5,
antialias=checked, create as vector= Unchecked, Close path=
Unchecked.
Draw a curved line across your beak just inside the edges. (refer to
picture for placement) |
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your magic wand tool, click on the black line to select, then go to
selections/Invert. |
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Now
we are going to add a slight Inner Bevel.
Go to Effects/3d effects/Inner Bevel... Choose the Soft edge preset
from the presets list, Change the smoothness setting to 22, leave
all other settings as they are, click OK. |
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Selections/select
none.
your beak is now finished! all that's left to do is export it as a
tube. Drag your beak layer from your layer palette out to an
empty space in your work area, then export this image as picture
tube, it will then be available to use from your tube menu.
Lets make more!!!!!............. |
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While
you still have your main image open, why not make some more
beaks! Click on the undo button to remove all steps until you
have just your plain beak with shapeshifter applied! now
experiment drawing different shapes of lines for your mouth, Here
are a few examples in this image, when you're happy just repeat the
select and inner bevel steps as above, then export your new beak as
another Picture tube!
Keep repeating these steps to create several different beaks
from this image! |
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Should
you wish to make an Open beak........
Undo back to your plain beak with shapeshifter applied...... then go
to your selection tool set to ellipse, antialias=Checked,
feather=Unchecked. take your mouse curser to the center of
your beak, roughly inline with the side bulges, and drag out an oval
selection..... |
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flood fill the oval selection with black. |
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and apply the same inner bevel as we did before. Deselect and
export as a picture tube!
That's it! you should now have a few
different beaks to choose from, I hope you have fun with these, and
thank you for doing my tutorial.
~June~ |
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