Colouring and shading a Digistamp in PSP Part Two

 

Step Five

Working on our outside panels layer 

 

Selections: Select All : Float : Defloat

ADD A NEW LAYER :  

 

Select your Airbrush with these settings

 

 

 

With White as your foreground colour draw a line in the centre of the panels starting and ending just short of the frame

(if it helps you can rotate the image 90 degrees to get the long panels neat and straight)

 

 

 

Blur : Gaussian Blur : Radius 8

 

Lower the layer opacity in your layer palette to 70%  

 

Merge this layer Down to the outside panel layer and deselect

Step Six

 

Repeat the Last step for the Inner panels  

Changing the settings for the Airbrush to this

 

 Notice I have changed the size and the opacity to 45 due to the size reduction of these panels

 

Step Seven

 

Working on the Hearts layer 

Selections: Select All : Float : Defloat

 

 

ADD A NEW LAYER :  

 

Select your Airbrush with these settings

 

Notice I have changed the size to 35 and the opacity to 45  and the blend mode to Luminance 

 

With a darker version of your heart colour draw a small V shape around the dent at the top of the hearts

 

 Reduce the layer to  60%

 

Merge this layer Down to the hearts layer and deselect 

 

Step Eight

 

Working on the thick Middle Panels layer 

 

Selections: Select All : Float : Defloat

 

 

ADD A NEW LAYER :  

 

Select your Airbrush with these settings

 

Notice I have changed the size to 200 and the opacity to 65 

 

wWith the very centre of the brush on the marching ants  draw round the panels

including the  connecting slanted lines 

 

 Do this for all the panels  but only go over the connecting lines once

 

 reduce the layer to  50% 

 

Merge this layer Down  and Deselect 

 

Merge All Layers 

and you should have something like this

 

So now i have shown you  the Basic  steps  use your own colours and settings  

I have included a harder  stamp in the supplies for you to get used to changing brush and shadow settings 

 

Try:  Using a very pale version of your colours for the highlight instead of white

Try:  Whilst adding  the white highlight you can repeat the cut-out if  you feel the shadow is not dark enough

Try:  Adding a drop shadow to the stamp

Try:  Using all Papers instead of colours

Try:  Using different textures on different parts

 

I hope this has helped even a small bit

Enjoy