For this tutorial you have to save two tubes. For it click  HERE and HERE .

Making Mouse Pad

1. Open the two tubes in your PSP and "shift+D" to duplicated them. Close the originals.

First active the Mouse Pad base.  

2. With your "Magic Wand" click in the white part in the base:

  3. Choose the colors you will use, and make them gradient in your background. Them choose a texture also:

4. With the "Flood Fill" tool click with your left button in your base that must still be with the blank part selected. Them go to "Selections/Select None".  

5. Open the tube you will use, go to "Edit/Copy" and you can close your original tube for now. Then right click in your mouse pad base and "Past as a new selection", put your tube where you want it. You can use you "Deformation" tool if you want to rezise it. When you finish with your tube go to "Selections/Select None".

6. Open a new image:

7. With your "selection" tool select the mouse you want to use in your mouses tube:

  8. Copy your selection going to "Edit/Copy". Right click in your new image and  "Past as a new selection". Put your mouse in the right side of the image. Must still have parts of others mouses, but you can erase it with your "Eraser" tool, like you can see with the green arrows below. When you finish go to "Selections/Select none".

9. Active your mouse base, copy it and past as a new selection in the image with your mouse. Put the base covering a little part of your mouse, like mine:

10. Go to "Selections/Select None". With your "Selection" tool select again your mouse in the mouses tube, but this time select just the mouse you´re using, not the little parts os the others:

11. Copy this selection and past it as a new selection in your image with the other mouse and the base. Put it right over the other mouse, that was under the base. Now it looks like that the mouse is over the base. Deselect.

12. Go to "Layers/Merge/Merge All" and then crop your mouse pad:

13. Go to "Image/Resize" and use these settings or your own:

14. Finish. You can add a text if you want, then salve as *gif ou *jpg.

tutorial elaborado por Ana Paula Consolino Pires