Gingy

Open a new image

Set your background colour to Red Candy gradient.

Set your foreground colour to #eb4d5b

Click on your text tool.

Click on your canvas and the text entry box will open. Use the settings in the screenshot. Click OK.

This is what you will have. Use the nodes (little squares on the vector box) to stretch your text up and out a little.

Go to the layer palette, right click on the vector layer and click on Convert to raster layer.

Go to Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel and use the settings in the screenshot.

Right click on raster 2 and click on Rename. Rename the layer, text.

Go to Layers > New raster Layer. Name the layer gingy. Click OK.

Click on the tube tool. Find the gingerbread tube and set the scale to 65.

Click once on your canvas. Use your mover tool to move the tube onto the text.

Go to View > Zoom in by 5

Go to the layer palette, change the opacity of the gingy layer, to 50.

Click on your eraser tool and use the settings in the screenshot.

Erase the part of the tube that's covering the text. Put the opacity back to 100 and make sure you haven't missed any pixels.

Go to View > Normal viewing.

Right click on raster 1 and click on rename. Rename the layer, white.

Click on the flood fill tool.

Use the settings in the screenshot and flood fill the layer with white.

This is what you should have.

Go to the layer palette and click on the text layer. Go to Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow and use the settings in the screenshot.

Go to the layer palette and right click on the white layer. Click on Duplicate. Repeat so you have 3 white layers. Do the same on the text layer.

Rename the copied layers as in the screenshot.

Click on the Create layer icon on the layer palette.

Name the new layer, gingy2.

Click on the tube tool then click once on your canvas.

Go to Image > Rotate

Use the settings in the screenshot.

This is what you should have. Use the mover tool to position the rotated tube over the text.

Go to the layer palette and turn off the visibility of gingy1 layer. Click on gingy2 to select it. Lower the opacity to 50.

Erase the part of the tube that covers the text then put the opacity back to 100.

Add a new layer and name it gingy3.

Add another tube.

Rotate the new tube using the settings in the screenshot.

Turn off the visibility of gingy2 layer and click on gingy3 to select it.

Lower the opacity to 50

Again, erase the part of the tube that covers the text then put the opacity back to 100.

With gingy3 layer still selected, add a drop shadow, same settings as before.

Add the same drop shadow to gingy2

Add the same drop shadow to gingy1

Arrange the layers as in the screenshot and turn off the visibility of the top 6 layers. Click on the bottom layer to select it.

Right click and Merge > Merge Visible

Turn off the visibility of the newly merged layer and turn on the visibility of the next 3 layers.

Right click and Merge > Merge Visible

Turn off the visibility of the newly merged layer and turn on the visibility of the top 3 layers. Right click and Merge > Merge Visible. Turn on the visibility of all layers.

Click on your crop tool.

Draw a square around your sig......be sure to check each layer so you can make sure you've not cropped any of the sig off on another layer (if you look closely at my finished sig on the supplies page, I cut some of the sig off on one of the layers!)

Go to the tool options and click on Crop Image

Save as a psp file.

Open the file in Animation Shop and go to Edit > Select All then Edit > Copy

Click on the last frame of the sig to select it.

Click on the Paste After Current icon.

Go to Animation > Reverse Frames

Go to Animation > Frame Properties and set the display time to 20.

Save and you're done :o)

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