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Software: Ulead PhotoImpact 10
Author: Claudia Conover A.K.A. Dia (Deeya)
Homepage: Dia's Dimensions
Terms Of Use: Please Read

Title: SILLY BIRD DUO
Skill Level: If you know where the tools are, and what they do, you can create these birds in any version!

Featured Tools:
Path Tool - Path Edit - Paint Brush
Resize Tools - Selection Tools - Rotate Tool

Additional Files:
EyeCandy 3

Description: Create cute Silly Birds

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Head

1. Open a New White Image, 400x400px set up like this:

2. With the Path Tool, 2D, color of what you want your bird to be, draw a heart about 200X127 (or the size you like). Rotate your head piece to an angle you like.

IMPORTANT

Decide now if you want a swirly-haired silly bird like the blue one above or a furry one like the red! Use the directions below for your fur or swirled hair. The directions are identical for both except for using the Eye Candy settings.

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SWIRLED SETTING

FURRY SETTINGS

3. Effects, EyeCandy 3, Fur or Swirl (furthermore noted as EC3) and apply these settings above or below. This will be your setting for the rest of his parts. Don't forget to save your work!

4. Merge, Zoom to 300, Smudge Tool set up like below, smudge all around the heart like little hairs are coming out of his head. Try to make them go in the direction of the lighter strokes of the fur, if you can, so the hairs look continued on to the outside of his head. Go back to normal view.

5. Selection Tool, Magic Wand set up like below (v.10) - get as close as you can to eliminate all the white of the background around the selection.

6. Rclick, Expand by 1 and check to see if it has eliminated all the white like below. Now use your + sign on the Magic Wand to remove any stray white pixels.
Rclick, INVERT, Rclick, Convert to Object. Save that baby!!! Don't want to loose it now! :)

 

7. Flip your head upside down with the Resize tool and position it near the top of your image background. Deselect! Click on the Fill Tool and flood the background with white (or the color you are using) to erase all the colored pixels for your next section.

Body

1. Click on the Path Tool and find the vertical oval in the Custom Shapes. Starting under the head (turn head view off for this part with the eye in your Layer Manager) draw a large oval in the 2D color you used for the head.

2. Move the body under the head in the Layer Manager or Rclick, Arrange, Send to Back.

3. Rotate it a bit, and repeat steps 3-6 to the body.

* When you are done with it, unhide the head and position like shown below. Add a shadow to the head - Click Object, Shadow (v10) or Format, Shadow to add the Shadow.

4. Deselect! Click on the Fill Tool and flood the background with white (or the color you are using) to erase all the colored pixels for your next section. You should have something like this now.

Left Arm

1. Click on the Path Tool and find the Ribbon in Custom Shapes. It's the one that is not drawn out at the tips as much (PI 10=f148). Use the same color in 2D as you did before. Make your ribbon arm fairly wide.

2. Flip this piece Vertically, and Resize if necessary to fit the size of your bird body. Use your Path Edit to shape the bottom like the sample at the top of the page or below or similarly.

3. When you are finished editing it, Arrange, send it to the back again. Hide your head and body from view.

4. Repeat steps 3-6 under "Head" again on this piece.

*5. Turn the view on for your other 2 parts. Rclick, Arrange, Bring Forward, and arrange it in a pleasing manner under the head. Give the arm a shadow like above.

6. Fill the background with your background color to make it ready for the other arm.

Right Arm

1. Hide the head and the arm in the Layer Manager.
Click on the Path Tool and make another wide Ribbon arm.

2. Use the Path Edit to make the back side of the arm fit the shape of the body and the front end curl down similar to the sample below or at the top of the page.

3. Hide the body and move this piece down to the bottom. Merge.
Repeat steps 3-6 one last time.

*4. Rclick, Bring to Front, make all objects viewable.
Select your R arm and click on Resize, Slant to bring the arm up to a bit over the cheek of your silly bird. Click on distort to make the back side fit the bird again.

5. Add the same shadow to your arm as before.

6. Now Rclick on the object in the Layer Manager or over your bird and choose Split Shadow and give it another one set up like so.

7. Click on the Split Shadow object and move it down like so.

8. Select the Object Paint Eraser and erase what shadow is extended from the back arm of the bird like so. You may not be able to see it, but it is there.

9. Move to the head. Rclick, Split the head shadow. Click on the Object Paint Eraser and erase what is exposed around the head on the white area only.

10. Rclick, Split Shadow on the Left Arm and erase that shadow also.

11. Deselect all, and fill your background with white one last time.

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