I have just recently starting playing with the Vector Pen and Preset shapes. Just by chance one day I discovered a quick and easy way to make a mitten when I was drawing a snowman.

Supplies needed

PaintShop Pro (I am using version 9)

Some patience and a love of all things PSP

OK, lets get started!!

First off make sure that you have got the pattern you want to use for the mitten, in the Background and the Foreground on transparent.

Pattern I used, right click and save

Step 1: Open a new image, 400x400 will do for now.

Step 2: Grab your Eclipse tool  with a check in

a) nodes showing

b) create as a vector

c) anti-alias

Step 3: Draw a Roundish shape about 233 x 206

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Step 4: Right-click on the canvas and select the Covert to path option

Step 5:  Click on your pen tool.

Step 6: Now we need to add 3 more nodes, so hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and at the same time click on a space between the top edge and the right hand middle node and add 3 nodes along that line.

Step 7: Click on the node number 2 and pull out and then click on the arrow and pull out to make a more rounded shape. This is the thumb of the mitten

Step 8: Now click on the node numbered number one and pull back toward the top node to give it a straighter look , then adjust the node on the other side to give it an even straighter look. Push and pull on the nodes and the node arrows until you are happy with the shape of the mitten.

  Right click on your Vector layer and Covert your mitten to a Raster layer.

 Step 9: Goto Selections/Select All then Selections/Float. Then Effect/3D Effects/Cutout and use these settings.

Step 10:  Selections/Select None.

Time to make the Cuff!!

 Step 10:  Draw another Eclipse shape  about 233 x 70  click on the Object Selection Tool (under your pen tool) and rotate the Eclipse shape until it sits over the bottom  of the mitten.

Right click on the canvas and Convert to Path.  Add a node to each end and then like before, push and pull your nodes and the node arrows until you are happy with the cuff shape. I like the rounded shape and this can be achieved by pushing and pulling on the node arrows.

Step 10: Goto Selections/Select All then Selections/Float.

Now at this stage if you have EyeCandy 5/Textures/Animal Fur you can give your mitten a fur cuff. with these settings

Pattern Tab

Hair

Lighting

Finished look for the cuff

or you can make some other effect like Effects/Texture/Blinds

Finished Product

Now they are not perfect but it is a start don't you think...............lol

I am in the process of making a flower as well.

Please feel free to link to this tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but do not copy it in any way  put on-line, pass out, or re-write and claim as your own. 

Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental.

This tutorial was written on the

2nd November 2007. 

© Edna