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Ok, now airbrush all over again, it's up to you how much you want to put on

Again, change your foreground colour to a lighter colour and airbrush on your canvas

Ok, we're done with the airbrush, let's add an effect to our background

Go to Effects > Texture Effects > Texture and choose Mosaic Antique

Use the following settings

	PSP 7
	PSP 8

Click Ok

Ok, it's a bit big so let's resize it!

Go to Image > Resize and use the following settings (you can make it smaller or bigger if you wish, in-fact, you don't even have to resize at all, it's up to you ;o)

	PSP 7
	PSP 8

The last thing to do is to put a background on the sig because if we try and save it in Animation Shop as a .gif, the optimiser will make a mess of the effect. By putting a background on, we can save in PSP as a .jpg

Click on the bottom layer

I usually flood fill this layer with white because I mainly use my sigs in MSN groups but for this one I've put it on pink to complement the colours in the sig.

Save your sig as a .jpg and you're done :o)

Note: When you choose to save as a .jpg the following warning will appear

'Because of the limitations of the specified file format, (and possibly the save options you've selected) the saved file will be limited to a merged image. Would you like to continue?'

Click Yes.

What the warning means is... because you've chosen to save your sig, which is in layers, as a .jpg, the layers will be merged to become one layer.

.jpg files don't support layers like .psp files and .gif files so the layers have to be merged.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial

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Tutorial written by Shell © 2003