Butterfly Tutorial

Open  a canvas size 500x500, transparent. Click on flood fill. Change your fill
color to black. Click on Selections and choose left wing.sel. Flood fill the wing with black color. Deselect.

Add a new raster layer. Click on flood fill. Click on Selections and choose forewing.sel. Flood fill the selections with #DFA529 color. Deselect.

Make the inner wing a floating selection by clicking on Tool Options/Selection/rectangle. Click on Effects/3D effects/Cutout Settings are Offsets vertical and horizontal = 1, Attributes are Opacity = 72 and Blur = 27.5 and Deselect.

Add a new raster layer. Click on Selections and choose veins.sel. Flood fill it with black. Deselect.

Add a new layer. Click on Selections and choose wingtip.sel. Flood fill it with #F7BF0D and deselect.

Add a new layer. Click on Selections and choose hindwing.sel. Flood fill it with black. Deselect.

Add a new layer. Selections/forewing1.sel. Flood fill with #F7BF0D. Deselect. Selections/forewing2.sel. Flood fill it with black, once. Deselect.

Add a new layer. Selections/veins1.sel and flood Fill with black. Deselect.

Add a new layer. Selections/wingtip2.sel and flood fill it with #F7BF0D. Deselect.

Merge all the layers visible. Copy and paste it as a new layer. Mirror image it and place the copy to the right side.

Add a new layer, Selections, body.sel. Flood fill it with black. Selections/bodystripes.sel. Flood fill with #F6BE0D and deselect.

Add a new layer, Selections, eyes.sel. Flood fill with black. Deselect. Make it a floating selection. Effect/3D effects/Inner bevel. Settings below.




Add a new layer, Selections, antennae.sel. Flood fill with black. Deselect. Merge all the layers visible and you're done.

 I hope you have fun doing this tutorial.