this tutorial is written 03. March 2004

Smiley

You are free to do whatever you want with you smiley, but you are not allowed to copy my tutorial. This is my work and I hope you respect that!

This is my very first written tutorial. I hope you'll enjoy making this smiley as much as I did!

You need PSP8 or other versions will also be ok.

Open a new image, 100 x 100 pixels, we will crop it later. Zoom to 1000% (oh yeah, we need it big!)

Set your paintbrush to settings as shown under

set your color to black (000000) and draw as under

Click inside both eyes with your magic wand When you select more than one area with magic want, hold [shift] and you are able to select different areas. Floodfill inside both eyes with color white (ffffff). Keep selected and go to

Effects - 3D effects - cutout like this

And so you select inside the smiley with your magic wand. Floodfill with a yellow color of your choise, I used F8F070.

And then

Effects - 3D effects - cutout like this

on shadow color I used F7E40D and on interior color F8F070

 

Finally you crop your image and save as a gif.

And than we have

You can also use paintbrush size 2 if you want a bigger smiley, than you'll get this one

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