We are going to make this Watching baby.
The tube you create from this tutorial is yours.
(I used a photo to make my tut)

Download here the selections and supplies..

Start by opening a new image 588x380 on a transparent background.


Open my head.sel and flood fill it with the color #E2B7AE.

Add a new layer and open my face1.sel.
Flood fill the selections with the color #E3CFCF.

Add a new layer and open my face2.sel.
Flood fill the selection with the color #CB9688.
Now turn the opacity of this layer down to 85.

Add a new layer and open my face3.sel.
Flood fill the selections with the color #CB9688.

Add a new layer and open my cheeks.sel.
Flood fill the selections with the color #E08E8E.

Add a new layer and open my face4.sel.
Flood fill the selections with the color #B77C69.
Now turn the opacity of layer down to 80.
And deselect the selection.

After all those steps your image should look like this.


Go to layers/merge and merge the layers visible.
Now go to effects/noise/add and add a 3% uniform noise.

Now paste my face.psp on the head like this.


Add a new layer and open my hair.sel.
Flood fill the selection with the color #906F4E.

Add a new layer.
Go to layers/arrange and send to bottom this layer.

Load my hands.sel and flood fill the selections with the color #E2B7AE.
With the selections floating go to effects/3d effects/cutout and use these settings.

The shadow color is the color #CB9688.
The interior color is the color #E2B7AE.

Now deselect the floating selection.
Go to effects/noise/add and add a 3% uniform noise.

Now open my lines.sel.
Go to colors/adjust/brightness and use a brightness of -25.
Deselect the selections.

We are now going to do something that makes tube really great ( I think).

Paint with your retouch tool with these settings little vingernails on the bottomhand like the picture shows.


After you did this soften the nails with jour retouch tool to give it a more natural look.
Using these settings.


After you did this add a new layer.

Open my clothes1.sel.
And flood fill with the color #C7DDF5.

Open my leg1shad1.sel.
Go to colors/adjust/brightness and use a brightness of -30.

Open my leg1shad2.sel.
Go to colors/adjust/brightness and use a brightness of -30.

Add a new layer.
Open my clothes2.sel.
And flood fill with the color #C7DDF5.

Open my cloth2shad1.sel.
Go to colors/adjust/brightness and use a brightness of -30.

Open my cloth2shad2.sel.
Go to colors/adjust/brightness and use a brightness of -30.

Add a new layer.
Open my bear.sel.
And paste into selection my bear psp.

Now deselect.
And turn the opacity of this layer down to 30.

Now go to layers/merge/merge visible and your tube is ready.


Try again with your own color and print.

© copyright Marianne's tubesdesign 2002.