Christmas pigs.

Three happy little pigs together in a wreth.

Get the wreth, branch, flower and band here.
Zip them up in your PSP image folder.

Start with a New Image 250 x 250, transp, 16 mill.
New Layer. Call it Body. Preset Shapes, Ellipse. Color  #FFD0CF
on both Fore- and Background. Make the body 80 x 80.
Place it a little lower than centre of your canvas.
Selections, Select all. Selections, Float. Effects, 2D, Cutout as below.

Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Head. Preset Shapes, Ellipse. Color  #FFD0CF
on both Fore- and Background. Make the head 60 x 60. Place it on top of the body.
Selections, Select all. Selections, Float. Effects, 2D, Cutout as before. Deselect.

New Layer. Call it Snout. Preset Shapes, Ellipse. Color  #FEC3C2
on both Fore- and Background. Make the snout 20 x 20. Place it on the head.
Selections, Select all. Selections, Float. Effects, 2D, Cutout as before. Deselect.

We will take some easy vectors on the ears.

New Vector Layer. Call it Ear. Preset Shapes, Triangle. Color  #FEC3C2
on both Fore- and Background. Create as vector checked.

Make the ear 25 x 20. Place it on the head.

Object Selector.

Node Edit. Right click with your mousebutton on the top node. Node type, Symmetric.
Right click outside the ear, Quit node editing. Left click.
Right click on the layer in your Layer Palette. Convert to Raster Layer.
Selections, Select all. Selections, Float. Effects, 3D, Cutout as before, but change Blur to 10. Deselect. Image Rotate, Right 20.
Drag this layer under Layer Head in your Layer Palette.

Duplicate. Deformation Tool. Push the innerear together a bit.
 Colors, Adjust, Brightness/Contrast. Brightness -20, Contrast 0. Place it infront of the other ear.
Close layers Body + Head + Snout. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Ear.

Duplicate the ear. Image, Mirror. Image, Rotate, Left 20. Put the ear in place.

New Layer. Call it Eyes. Preset Shapes, Ellipse. Black color on both Fore- and Background.
Make the eyes 3 x 3. Duplicate and place the eyes above the snout.

New Layer. Call it Nostril. Preset Shapes, Ellipse. Black color on both Fore- and Background.
Make the nostril 4 x 4. Duplicate and place the nostrils on the snout.

Close Layer Body. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible. Call it Head1.

New Layer. Call it Mouth1. Preset Shapes, Ellipse. Color #808080 on Foreground.
Background closed. Make an ellipse 27 x 23.
 Selection tool, Freehand. Mark the part you will delete.

Delete. Deselect.

Duplicate the head. Image, Rotate Left 20.

Duplicate the head once again. Image, Mirror.
Place the heads beside the first head and a little lower.

New Layer. Call it Mouth2. Preset Shapes, Ellipse. Color #808080 on Foreground.
Background closed. Make an ellipse 20 x 17. Selection tool, Freehand.
Mark the part you will delete. Place the mouth on the duplicated head.

New Layer. Call it Mouth3. Preset Shapes, Ellipse. Color #808080 on Foreground.
Background closed. Make an ellipse 26 x 20. Selection tool, Freehand.
Mark the part you will delete. Place the mouth on the other duplicated head.

Get the wreth you got in the zip. Copy and Paste it as a New Layer. Call the layer Wreth.
 Place it on top of the pigs. Now you might have to place the pig-parts more to the centre of the wreth. Do so with your Mover. I placed my pigs like this.

Close Layer Wreth. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible to the rest. Call the layer Pigs.

Get the branch you got in the zip. Copy and Paste it as a New Layer.
Duplicate. Image, Rotate, left 40. Place the brances like this.

Close layers wreth and Pigs. Layers, Merge, Merge Visible.
Call the layer Branch. Duplicate. Image, Mirror. Place the branches
on the other side of the wreth.

Get the flower you got in the zip. Copy and Paste it as a New Layer.
Place it in the middle of the wreth, between the branches.

Stand on Layer Pigs. Copy the band you got in the zip and Paste it as a New Layer.
Place it at the bottom of the wreth.
Duplicate. Image, Mirror. Place the band on the other side.

Duplicate. Image, Flip. Place the band to your liking.

Duplicate. Image, Mirror. Place the band to your liking.

Go through your picture. If you want to change anything, do so now.

When you like what you see, Layers, Merge, Merge Visible and you are done.

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