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You will need:
Paint Shop Pro
Images of choice - I'm using the fabulous are to Deacon Black.
Your can purchase his work from
CILM
Fat Font of choice or the one I used
Dumbass
Open a blank canvas, flood fill with black (we
will change this later). Take your text tool, select your
chosen font, set to vector, Foreground white, back ground null,
stroke 5. This is why we are using a black background, so
you can see what your doing. Drag out your font to the
desired size. If using the same font as me, and you have any
letters that are back to front, you may want to select these and
flip them after you have converted them to raster layer.
Now take one of your chosen images and place it
behind your first letter. With the text layer activated,
take your selection tool, and select inside the first letter.
Selections/Modify/Expand by 3. Activate your image,
Selections/Invert, then hit delete. Select none.
Repeat this until you have filled all your letters.
Once you have filled all the letters, hide the
text layer and background layer, and merge visible. You may
then unhide these layers. Colourise your picture layer, if
you used black and white images, like I did. Choose whatever
colour you like. Then on your text layer, add a drop shadow
of H & V = 0, Opacity 70, and Blur 10. Merge the text down
to the picture layer. You may now flood fill your background
layer with white.
Duplicate your merged text layer, and flip the
original. Position this with the bottoms of the top and
bottom layers touching each other. Using your deform tool,
drag up the bottom (or top, which ever way you want to look at it
lol) a touch, and holding down the shift key, pull in the top, and
drag out the bottom, to make it look like it's laying down.
See finished tag for idea of what I mean.
When happy, ensure it's positioned right, and
lower the opacity to 60.
Back on the duplicated text layer (the one we
didn't deform), go to Effects/Illumination Effects/Starburst, and
add the following settings (you may want to position your cross to
your liking. I positioned it on the centre letter in the
name)

Add your copyright, and save as a jpeg, and you
are done.

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tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but DO
NOT copy it in ANY way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write
without my permission. Any resemblance to any other tutorial like
this is purely coincidental. Thank you. This tutorial was
written on the 9th March 2008 by Faerie Queen. |