*For this tutorial we will be using the PSP7/AS program.*

Lets "blink & blend" eyes using a doll or other image in PSP/AS.

Ready? Lets go!

*Find a doll or other image that you wish to use. (For this tutorial I'm using a doll with large eyes.) Open the doll in AS. Next open a new blank image 400 x 400 (we will crop it later.) Click on the doll and go to Edit>Copy and Edit>Paste>Into Selected Frame (click on your new blank frame and add your doll there. Now duplicate the frame 2 times, (for a total of 3.) You can close your original doll image. Now, click on the second frame and export it to PSP.

Click the Zoom Tool

then click on your doll layer several times, until you have the face/eyes large enough to work with.

Now on your Tool Options, click on the Clone Brush>Round

Size 1>Hardness>50, opacity 100>step 25>Density>100.

Using the clone tool, right click right above the black outline of the eye. Using your cursor, color that area straight down...making sure that you keep within the shape of the eye as you repeat for each line, but don't clone the eyebrows.

After you've completed one eye, do the other the same way.

Next on your Tool Options click on Retouch>3>Opacity>100>Step 25, and in the drop down menu select "Smudge."

Left click holding down on the mouse button and begin blending those lines that you colored in together, (as if blending eyeshadow.) Stay in the area that you colored.

Repeat for the second eye.

Now click View>View Normal and click to

update back to Animation Shop.

Click on Edit>Select All, and then Animation>Frame Properties>Display time set at 33. Next, View>Animation.

*If you are happy with the results so far, it's time to add the eyeliner. (If you need to retouch a little more, then click on frame 2 and export back to PSP. Using the retouch tool, blend the eye area more using the Zoom tool and the Retouch>Smudge (as we did above.) *After seeing the animation, I needed to blend the light brown area right above the coloring of the eye, so I took the frame back to PSP.*

Now we want to click on the Onionskin Preview in AS,

and use the zoom tool

to make the eyes large enough to work with

and to see the outline of the eye.

*I turn this tool on and off and also click View>Animation quite often, to check on the results as I work.*

Now using your eyedropper,

click on frame 1 and pick the darkest color

from the area surrounding the eye.

Next click on the Paint Tool

and begin to add liner to the bottom of the eye in frame 2. Click on the onionskin preview to see the previous frame to make sure you are staying within the eye area.

**Continued Part 2**

*This tutorial was written by Mz. Tap� on April 7th, 2003.

*Background by Mz. Tap exclusive for this tutorial.*