Created January 2004 © §harang© - Sharang's Place

Please do not place or copy this tutorial without my permission,
you are more than welcome to link to it with a text link.

This tutorial is written for PSP7 and assumes you have a good
working knowledge of the PSP tools.

Any resemblence to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.


Supplies Needed

Paint Shop Pro
The Font I Used - Here - Acadian.
My Supplies - Here
This includes the tube and my mask and gradient.
This wonderful tube is by Katie at Designs By Katie.
Many thanks Katie for your kind permission to use your tubes.
Please go and check out Katie's awesome site here :

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1. Open the tube and mask in PSP. Minimise the mask for now.
Shift & D to duplicate the tube and close the original for future use.
Image > Resize by 50% Bicubic Resample, All layers - Checked.
Image > Canvas Size 400 width x 400 height,
Centre Image Horizontally and Vertically both checked.

2. Layers > New Raster Layer.
Layers > Arrange > Send To Bottom.

3. Set your foreground to gradient.
Locate the shar_red gradient.
Linear selected. Angle - 145. Repeats - 0.
Floodfill this new layer with this gradient.

4. Masks > New > From Image.
Using these settings :

5. Masks > Delete.
Click on yes to the pop-up window.

6. Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel using these settings :

7. Set your foreground to solid colour #C00000.
Set your background to the gradient you used earlier.
Click on your text tool and then click on your canvas.
Add your text using these settings :

8. Pull on the nodes to position your text so that it
appears that the lady is sat on your name.
Layers > Convert To Raster Layer.

9. Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel using the same settings.

10. In your layer palette, click on your bottom layer to make it active.
Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow using these settings :

11. In your layer palette, click on your middle layer to make it active.
Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow.
Use the same settings but change the colour to #A99595.

12. In your layer palette, click on your top layer to make it active.
Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow.
Use the same settings but change the colour to #877979.

13. Layers > Merge > Merge Visible.

14. Click on your crop tool.
In your Tool Options Palette, click on Crop Settings.
Select Opaque Area - Current Layer = Checked.
Click on OK. Then click on Crop Image.

15. Layers > Merge > Merge All (Flatten).
Save as a JPG and you're done!

I hope you enjoyed doing this tutorial and you like your new sig.





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