The words in black is a Photoshop Tutorial. The Words in green are PSP tutorial (Thanks to SourdoughStomper for the PSP translation)





Make a Sketch of a pony, then ink it.
Once you have inked your sketch, erase
the pencil lines and scan your drawing.
It's best to scan your drawing in Black and White.

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Once you have scanned your drawing,
go Image>Adjustments>Levels (Or CTRL L)
Do you see the 3 small arrows? bring the arrows at
then to the middle and click ok.

Go to Image>Mode>RGB Color

Go to Image>Increase Color>16 million colors.
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In your Layer Palette, lock the layer, this is to
make sure you don't color on your sketch.
Make a new layer and name is \"Color\" Change the Mode
to \"Multiply\"
Select your Magic Wand tool. With your Magic Wand, select
the area you want colored on your locked layer.
Then color it on your layer \"Color\"

Make a new layer or two. If you know how to lock the sketch layer, then you are already more knowledgeable than I. If you have one layer, you could call it \"color\" or if you have two, you can call it \"body\" and \"hair\" or whatever you like. Select your Magic Wand Tool. With that MW tool, select the area you want to color (you can use the shift button if you want to choose more than one area at once). Then go to the layer you want to use and fill in the colors you want to use.
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Now that you have the base colors, your ready to start
shading, When your shading it's always best to know
what direction the light is coming from.
Select your Magic Wand tool. With your Magic
Wand, select the area you want to shade on your
locked layer. Select your \"Burn Tool' for shading.
Then start shading on your layer \"Color\"
Use the \"Dodge Tool\" to make the light areas.

You can start shading after you have your basic colors. Think about where you want the \"light\" coming from so you can highlight and shade accordingly. I suppose you can either use the dodge and burn tools, but I just use the \"Lighten/Darken Brush\". To make the shading and highlighting look nice, I suggest you choose a hardness of 70% or so, and an opacity of 40% or lower. Now that you have your brush ready, you can use the Magic Wand to select the area you want to shade and highlight on your colored layer. I think the left mouse button makes it lighter and the right mouse button makes it darker.
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I usually do the symbol last, on a new layer.

Ditto!

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Here's the finished pony. Can you guess who she is? It's Starswirl!


To color the Black lines, make a new layer, with you Magic Wand, select the black lines and color the lines (any color you want) on your new layer.

If you want to change the black outlines to match closer to the pony's body and hair color, you can use the replace color function and change black into the color of your choice, probably a few shades darker than the body and hair.

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Here are some good tutorials for you to try out.

1. Dragon Paint
2. Nethersphere
3. CG GRAPHICS TIPS
4. Elfwood tutorials
5. How to Draw
6. Annie Masson pony web site
7. Cardinal Melody's Pony Maker