You will need:
Paint Shop Pro
Tube of choice. I'm using the fantastic art of Pat
Curlucci. He is a licensed artist, you can purchase a
license direct from his site
HERE
Dingbat -
Devil Inside
Supplies - Thanks to MzKel for use of the mask
Font of choice.
I'm using Hurried Note
HERE
Put your mask in your
mask folder, and your dingbat and font where you load your fonts
from. Lets begin.
Open a new canvas,
flood filled with white 500 x 500. New layer, flood fill
with a pale shade from your tube. I'm using a light blue.
Layers/Load Save Mask/Load Mask from Disk, load the mask
provided by MzKel - invert transparency. Merge group. Then load the second
mask to the same layer - invert transparency again, and merge group again. This is our
background.
Select your text
tool, Devil Inside dingbat, size 500, create as a vector layer,
line width = 6. Set your foreground colour to black,
and your background to a dark shade from your tube. I'm
using dark blue. Set your foreground now to a gradient
gold colour, and your background to foreground-background
gradient, with these settings:
Type out the letter 'd' to get your bat
shape. Click OK, then you may want to drag the nobes in to
fit is in your canvas. Position it towards the top like
this:
Give it a drop shadow of H & V - 0,
opacity - 75, and blur - 10.
Add your tube. Resize it if necessary, and add the same
drop shadow, but change the horizontal to 6.
Now we can add our text. Using a
script font, or mine, and set to 48, no bold, background black,
foreground null, type out 'What makes a Superhero?'
Convert to raster and move up towards the bat shape. Next
in the same font type your answer, or mine:
. strength to do good
. power to fight crime
. courage to in the face of danger
. And a really cool costume!
Set it to left alignment, so all the dots
at the beginning of the lines match up. Move it below your
question, slightly indented, stretch down a touch, and then
merge down to your question, and add the drop shadow as before,
but set the horizontal to 3.
Add your copyright, and your name in a
font of your choice below your tube layer.
Save as jpeg, and you are done.
Please feel free to link to this
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 8th July 2007 by Faerie Queen.