1. Open a New Image 450 X 550 pixels -resolution 200 - 16 million colors - transparent background. Make sure your View is set up to show the grid checkerboard too as this is helpful with alignment.

2. Add a New Raster layer and name it Bell.

3. Go up top to Selections / Load from Disk and select the FD_Snowbell file that you downloaded and placed in the folder and click OK.

4. Your selection should now be active on your canvas. Set your background color to white and with your Flood Fill Tool flood fill this selection - do not deselect. Stop now and save your project :o)

5. Up top click on Effects / Plug-Ins / Flaming Pear / Super Blade Pro and select your FD_SnowBells file and click OK. (If you do not have SB Pro you can open the Textured Snowbell.psp image and copy/paste it into your selection.)

6. While your image is still selected Add a New Raster layer and name it cutoutbell1, go up top to Effects / 3D Effects / Cutout and apply the settings shown below:

7. Add another New Raster layer name it cutoutbell2 and apply the Cutout settings again, change your Horizontal settings to -2 | Opacity to 70 | Blur to 30 | Vertical remains at 0. Apply and Save your work. Yes I know these cutouts look dark, were going to adjust this later on.

8. Open the Snow Scene you saved at the beginning of this tutorial or one you have chosen to use (if your using your own image it needs to be resized to 200 x 144).

9. With your Selection Tool settings are ellipse | Feather 10 | Anti Alias is checked. Place your cursor at 100 x 78 and drag down and right to 158 x 118 and click Copy, then Paste it as a New Layer onto your Bell canvas moving it into position with your Mover Tool , rename this new layer snowscene. While this layer is active your going to want to resize it slightly go to Image / Resize / 90% make sure All Layers is NOT checked, the go up and Effects / Sharpen / Sharpen. On your layer palette drag this new layer under your 2 cutout layers. (Or as an alternative apply a dingbat of your choice, I used a gold metallic gradient on mine and added a drop shadow of V1 | H1 Opacity 100 | Blur 1.2 on the gold ones I did.)

10. Let's do a layer check here and see how your doing:

11.Add a New Raster Layer naming it dropshadowbell, load your selection from disk again then click Selections / Invert and apply these settings:

Deselect your image and don't worry, here is why we have 2 cutout layers and the drop shadow layer...... I had you make various shadowed layers because from this one image you will have the ability to make both the snow bell and a clear glass bell! Depending on which bell you decide to make will determine which shadows you want to use. I have played with these 3 shadows in various combinations, hiding one and using 2 etc. and the results are wonderful! These shadows will give you a good start in creating your own collectable bells! I'll walk you through both kinds *s* as we move along through this tutorial.

12. Now that Layer 1 you have on your palette ought to be empty, let's activate it and flood fill it with black so you can see what your doing on the next few steps.

13. Group these layers together so they are easier to keep up with when it comes time to move them.

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