ROTATING A GRADIENT

IN PI 11

Making the Tile

You will need Mura's Seamless Plug-in filter   E  HERE

1.  Open a new image 100 x 100, goto: Edit/Fill and choose a multi-coloured gradient.

2.  Goto: Effects Mura's Seamless/Tile Rotate and accept defaults and click ok

3.  What you should have is this

Make a new folder and name it something like Tiles for PI (or whatever you like) and save the newly made tile as a jpg to  that folder (do not save as a gif as you will get the error message This operation can only be applied to 24 bit true colour images) . OK, now we are ready to move on the making our tag.

MAKING THE TAG

TIP:  If you would like more spacing between your letters you can either do Split text after you have typed your name or you can click on the base, put a tick in the Kerning box and add 3 (I find this enough most times) before you type,  then click on the base again and type your name.

• Open a new image 170 x 80 (good forum size sig tag) and fill with white.

• Grab your text tool and choose a font and type your name, make it 3D. At this stage we will leave adding the shadow until last.

• Highlight your name layer  Right Click/Duplicate your name  do this 3 times, making a total of 4 name layers, (Do not do Ctrl D as this will give you 4 separate images) What I have is 4 names in the one image.

This is what my image layer looks like in PI 11

• Highlight one of your name layers then right-click/select all objects, then close the eye to hide all layers.

• Click on the bottom layer, highlight it and open the eye. (At this stage you should still have your T (text) tool highlight on the left.)  Goto: More on the Text Tool Settings Palette  on the right hand side.

6. Click on the Colour/Texture and then click on the open folder and navigate to where you have saved your tile, click OK  

• Highlight the next layer and open the eye. Goto More, then your Colour/Texture and click on options and check 90.

• Repeat step 6. for the 3rd and 4th name layer using 180 for your 3rd name layer and 270 for your 4th name layer.

• Make you background, give your name layers a shadow.

• Highlight a name layer Right Click/Select all objects. Click on the eye, as all your layers are highlighted this will hide all layers, the only image that will be showing is the base image.

(The reason for this is, so that you don't have to do it in GA (Gif Animator)) Save as a UFO file. 

• Open GA5.

In GA5  it is the same steps as in the Adding a Sparkle tut HERE from Step 7.

These are examples of what you can do with this method

Hope you enjoyed making yourself some new tags for your group.

Thank you for trying my tutorial

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Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental and not intentional.

This tutorial was written on the 26th December 2006 and is therefore 

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