VALENTINE TEXTS TUTORIAL



SKILLS
Beginner with basic knowledge of PSP and Letter Creator

NEEDED
  • tube
  • PSP & Letter Creator

    PREPARING:
    1. choose tube, no longer or wider then 300 pixels
    2. duplicate tube (shift-D)
    3. close down your original tube, we will work with the copy
    4. choose light or bright foreground color from your tube
      in your material box
    5. choose dark background color from your tube in your
      material box
    6. Edit - copy

      BACKGROUND TEXT
    7. File � New Image: settings: 300 x 300: transparant
    8. Activate your text tool
    9. Choose a nice font and use a size which suits you.
      For lose words for instance 72, for a saying for instance
      48 or 36. You can turn it in any direction you want and
      in different fonts. Just as you like and repeat this until
      you have filled your square without touching the edges.
      See examples. My advise, play with this and you can have
      many different backgrounds.
    10. Tip after Valentine�s day you can also choose for not �love� texts.


    11. File � export, chose �custom brush�, give name you can find
      back easily, at default settings.


      BACKGROUND TILE
    12. File � New Image: 300 x 300, transparent
    13. Selections � Select all
    14. Edit- Paste into Selection
    15. Selections � Select none
    16. Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling: at default
    17. Layers � new raster layer
    18. Flood fill with your flood fill tool your new layer using
      your foreground color
    19. Layers � Arrange � Send to bottom
    20. Layers � Merge � Merge visible
    21. Adjust � Blur � Gaussian Blur: settings: 25 pixels
    22. Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling: at default
    23. Duplicate (shift � D) your background tile
    24. Minimize (we will use this copy later for the tube image)
    25. We will continue working on your original background tile
    26. Select brush in your toolbox you made: Paintbrush, next to
      presets choose your brush.
    27. Height of no more then 300 steps 32

    28. Put your brush once in middle of image: right click to
      use your background color, left click for your foreground color.
      Look what suits your image best. I used my background color.
    29. Your background tile is now ready, minimize

      BACKGROUND
    30. File � New Image: 1450 x 300
    31. Go to your background color box in your material box and select
      the pattern you just made

    32. Flood fill your new image with your pattern (flood fill tool),
      settings: corner: 0 and scale:100
    33. Lower the opacity of your background to make it text friendly
      (note down the number of opacity)
    34. Your background is now ready

      TUBE IMAGE
    35. Activate your copy of the background tile without text
    36. Lower the opacity to that you used with your background
      same opacity).
    37. Layers � new raster layer
    38. Choose your preset tools in tool box and choose circle

    39. Draw a circle on your background tile from the left top
      corner, start point: 30 x 30 to 150 x 150
    40. Layers � new raster layer
    41. Activate your text tool in your tool box and choose
      a nice font, size 18 � 22 to your likings. I chose 18
    42. When you have your arrow above the circle just at the edge
      you will notice an A with half a circle under it. When you see this A
      you can start typing your text. Your text will now appear around
      the circle you draw before.
    43. When you are finished go to Layers � Promote to raster layer
    44. Activate the circle layer in your layer box (not the one
      with the text circle!)
    45. Delete this layer
    46. Activate your top layer (the text circle layer)
    47. Layers � duplicate
    48. With your mover tool (tool box) move your duplicated circle
      opposite of the first text circle
    49. Edit � Paste as a new layer
    50. Move your tube if you want to the spot you like best
    51. Close the view of your background layer (click the eye)
    52. Layers � Merge � Merge visible
    53. Effects � 3d effects � Dropshadow: settings: horizontal
      & vertical: 4, opacity: 55, blur: 12
    54. Make your background layer visible again.
    55. Layers � Merge � Merge visible
    56. Effects � 3d effects � Inner Bevel: with the following settings


    57. Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)
    58. Edit � Copy
    59. Minimize

      FINISHING BACKGROUND
    60. Activate your background
    61. Edit � Paste as a New Layer
    62. Move your image with your mover tool to the left corner
    63. Effects � 3d effects- dropshadow: settings: vertical: 0,
      horizontal: 5, Opacity: 60, Blur: 15, shadow on new layer: checked
    64. Activate your deformation tool in your toolbox
    65. With your deformation tool you drag with the white double
      arrows vertical (on top and down) until there is one black
      shadowline without lighter edges.
    66. Activate your toplayer
    67. Layers � new raster layer
    68. Add your watermark
    69. Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)

      FINISHING
    70. File � Export: JPEG Optimize with compression of 25
    71. In Letter Creator in your Body open your background
    72. Tile in your body
    73. In your Footer mention your credits
    74. Finish


    I hope you will have fun doing this tutorial. Please show me your
    results as I love seeing my tutorials used and I love
    seeing nice letters. So please please please do.

    Please give credit to me in your tutorials. Best to put
    a link to my group:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IMtutorialsbyJetty
    or if you belong to a group where that isn�t allowed
    please add my email: [email protected]
    For members of the creatorscommunity link to my website:
    http://www.geocities.com/ladyluna37/index.htm

    If you want to use this tutorial groupswise or include it in lessons
    please ask my permission. I probably won�t refuse but I would
    like to hear when it is used.
    If there is any resemblance to another tutorial it is purely
    coincidental.

    Thanks to the women who have thought me more about
    Paint Shop Pro and Incredimail and to the women who test for me.
    Without you I couldn�t have done it.

    Hugs
    Jetty

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