Curtains
For this tutorial, you will need:
| PSP 8 or 9 & Animation Shop 3 | You can download a free trial of PSP 9 & Animation Shop HERE |
| The fairy tube I used HERE | This fairy tube is © Renee Biertempfel. I've added the copyright information as a layer. Please keep this layer on the original tube so you'll know who owns copyright to image if you use it in the future. For this tag, you can be delete or resize the copyright layer, if you wish. If you choose to delete it, please make sure you add the copyright information to the finished tag, as per Renee's terms of use |
| Font | Fairy Scroll Display |
Open a new canvas and use the following settings:
Set your background colour to #412116
Set your foreground colour to # e1c6b5
Flood fill your canvas with your foreground colour
Go to Effects > Add Border
and use the following settings:
NOTE: you can have any colour in the colour box, except the colour you've
flood filled your canvas with.
Click on your magic wand tool and click in the border to select it.
Flood fill the border with your background colour.
Keeping the border selected, add an inner bevel using the following settings:
Add a new raster layer and add your tube. I set the scale to 35
Add a drop shadow using the following settings:
Add a new raster layer and add the copyright info to that layer.
Go to the layer palette and right click on a layer. Go to Merge > Merge Visible
Right click on the newly merged layer and duplicate.
Turn off the Copy of Merged and click on Merged to select it.
This is what your canvas will look like:
Choose your text tool and use the following settings:
Click on your canvas and when the text entry box opens, type in your text. Click ok.
Use the node in the centre of the vector to rotate the text.
Right click on the vector layer and click on Promote to raster layer.
Click on Copy of Merged.
Change your text size to 60 (you might have to type it in)
Click on your canvas and enter your text in the text entry box.
Turn off the visibility of raster 2 and copy of merged
Click on the merged layer to select it
Right click on the Merged layer and go to Merge > Merge Visible
Turn off the newly merged layer and turn on the top 2 layers. Right click on a layer and go to Merge > Merge Visible.
Turn on both layers.
Save as a PSP file.
Open Animation shop and open your saved sig.
Go to Effects > Insert Image Transition and use the following settings:
Click on frame 1 to select it.
Go to Animation > Frame properties and set the display time to 35
Click on the last frame and do the same.
Now go to Edit > Select All then Edit > Copy
Click on the last frame to select it and go to Edit > Paste After Current
Go to Animation > Reverse Frames
Save your sig and you're done :o)
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
Tutorial © Shell 2005
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