This tutorial was written January 24th 2007. Please feel free to LINK to this tutorial and/or print it out for your personal use, but please do not copy it in anyway to put online, pass out or re-write without my permission Supplies Fat font and fancy font of choice gradient of choice tube of choice Scribe Filter HERE download with PSP closed in my supplies: the devil girl tube (make sure you use the copyright!), the fat and fancy font and the inner bevel 10eBM HERE this tutorial works best with the color red being your main color although I have used others... see the bottom for alternative versions! 1. Open a new, blank image 600 x 600 pixels transparent image (16 million color depth). File > New > set size & set color depth.
2. Open your tube and select dark color as your foreground and a lighter color as your background. Then make you background the gradient of your choice and then null it for now.
3. Open your fat font, write the word LOVE with antialias and create as vector both checked. Resize so the word is pretty large, when happy, convert to raster.
4. Select the wand and holding down the shift key, click into each of the letters until each of them have marching ants on them. Selections > modify > expand by 2.
5. Click on layer 1 and right click - add new raster layer. Flood fill that new layer with the gradient you chose earlier. Keep selected.
6. Effects > Plugins > Scribe >Doughnutz ~ 74
7. Merge > merge visible and deselect. Effects > 3D effects > inner bevel and use the default setting for the preset 10eBM bevel from the supplies
8. Effects > 3D effects > drop shadow with the settings vertical and horizontal both -3, opacity ~ 85, blur 3.5, color black
9. Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, resize and position as desired. Add the same drop shadow as step 8.
10. Add the copyright information if you need it as a new layer and also add a new raster layer and add your own watermark or brush.
11. Open your fancy font and change your gradient to the lighter solid color you chose earlier. Make sure you have antialias and create as vector both checked. Resize and position as desired over the top of the word LOVE. Add the same default setting bevel as before - then repeat the bevel again.
12. Add the same drop shadow as before. Merge > merge visible. Crop to desired size.
13. Effects > 3D effects > buttonize: height ~ 15, width ~ 15, opacity ~ 100, transparent edge checked.
14. Save as jpeg and resize again if desired.
N.B. try using other words!
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