Tools Needed:

PSP 7.04
Eye Candy 3.01
Popsicle stick from Popsicle Tutorial
My Presets
Put the .sel files into your selections folder (you may have to create one). The .pbs and .pbv files go into your presets folder.





  1. Open a new image, 400x400, 16million colors, transparent background.

  2. Make a new layer and name it 'Shell'.

  3. On your Shell layer go to Selections>Load from disc and choose browny.sel.

  4. Floodfill it with #34241f. Deselect.

  5. Go to Selections>Load from disc and choose brownyhalves.sel.

  6. Go to Effects>3D Effects>Outer Bevel and use the browny preset. Deselect.

  7. Go to Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel and use the browny2 preset.

  8. Make a new layer and name it 'Ice Cream'.

  9. Load the browny.sel again, contract it by 3 and save it to alpha channel.

  10. Floodfill the selection with #f8f0f0. Deselect.

  11. Go to Effects>Artistic Effects>Brush Strokes and use the ice cream preset.
  12. Go to Effects>Plugins>Eye Candy 3.01>Jiggle and set it up like below.


  13. Using the deformation tool, stretch the ice cream out beyond the edges of the shell.

  14. Load the selection from the alpha channel, invert the selection and hit your delete key.

  15. Move your Ice Cream layer below your shell layer.

  16. Duplicate your shell layer and rename the new layer to 'bottom shell'.

  17. Mirror the bottom shell.

  18. Move it below the ice cream layer, lining it up with the shell layer.

  19. Make your shell layer active. Using your freehand selection tool, set to freehand, make a bite shape. See below:


  20. Hit your delete key.

  21. Now use your mover tool and your right-click button to move the selection to the left and up a bit. See below:


  22. Make your Ice Cream layer active and hit your delete key.

  23. Now move your selection once again. Just a few pixels up and to the left. See below:


  24. Make your bottom shell active and hit your delete key.

  25. Save your work.

  26. Hide Layer1 and merge visible the other layers. Rename this layer BrownBar.

  27. Open up the popsicle stick that you saved from the popsicle tutorial.

  28. Copy it. Make your browny bar active and highlight Layer1. Paste the stick as a new layer.

  29. Position the stick so it is in the center of the bar, you may have to cut the top off the stick.

  30. With the stick layer active, make a new layer and name it 'shadow'.

  31. Make your shadow layer active and load your selection from alpha channel.

  32. Go to Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow and apply it like this:


  33. Make the stick layer active and using your magic wand, select anywhere in the transparent area.

  34. Make your shadow layer active and hit your delete key.

  35. Save your work.

  36. Hide Layer1 and merge visible the other layers.

  37. Congratulations, you have now made a browny bar!!!!!



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