Use this image - heart wings - to mark your place. Just drag it along as you read each line.

Supplies:

PSP version 9 was used for this tut but you can use other versions too.

Tube - ElliebearHeart01 & Ding Font - Hugware.ttf  -   Download Supplies Here

Let's Begin:

~Open Tube - ElliebearHeart01 into PSP

~Duplicate Tube and close the original (ctrl-D)

~Open Dig Font - Hugware.ttf and minimize it.

1. Make "New Image" 350X350

2. Tool - Flood Fill - color of choice or my color - #d47693

3. Adjust - Add /Remove Noise - Add Noise, Gaussian- Monochrome checked - set at 8%.

4. Tool - Click on the "Text Tool". Click on the middle of image.

5. Material Palette - Set Foreground to Null, set Background to White.

6. Ding Font - Go to your "Tools bar" and click on the "Hugware font".

7. Tool Palette settings:



Click on your keyboard the letter (i) lowercase.

8. Menu Bar - "Objects - Align - Center in canvas (Keep selected).

9. Selections - From Vector Object.

10. Selections - Load/save selection - Save selection to Alpha Channel.



11. Layer Palette - Check (X) the eye on the Vector Layer to close it. Your image will have marching ants where the font was.

12. Layers - New Raster Layer

13. Selections - Hide Marquee

14. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout, 1,1,100,3



15. Layers - New Raster Layer

16. Effects - 3D Effects - Dropshadow, 1,1 100,5



17. Selections - Select None.

18. Layer Palette - Uncheck Vector Layer and right click on it and "convert to raster layer".

19. Adjust - Softness - Soften. Do this to raster layer 2 and 3.

20. Layers Palette - Make sure you are on raster 3, and with the opacity slider, lower the opacity to 50 % or to whatever makes your shadow softer looking according to your background color.

21. Layer Palette - Check the eye on the background layer to close it. Click on one of the other layers and "Merge Visible".

Make "New Transparent Image" 1024X370.

22. Materials Palette - Set Foreground Color to #d47693 or whatever your background color is.

23. Tool - Flood Fill - Fill "New Image" with your Foreground color.

24. Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise (same settings) as in step 3.

25. Menu - Edit - Copy - "Font Design" Paste as New Layer onto your background.

26. Mover Tool - Move the Font Design over to the Left of your background and center it there.

27. Menu - Edit - Copy - Tube and Paste it "As New Layer".

28. Image - Resize - Percent 85% - resample using(Bicubic), Lock aspect ratio, All Layers-unchecked.

29. Effects - 3D Effects - Dropshadow - 1,1,50,5



30. Layers Palette - Click on the background

31. Effects -Image Effects - Seamless Tiling - "Default Settings".

32. For a watermark-Layers - New Raster Layer, add watermark as a selection, "Selections - select None.

33. For No watermark - Layers - Merge All (Flatten)

34. Copy the copyright layer from the tube to your image

35. File - Export - Jpg Optimizer, settings 25

You are Done! Please share your work with the group.

NOTE: Thank you for trying my tutorial, if you have any questions please email me at snowangel_pda@yahoo.com, please add a credit to Snow Angel's Graphics with my email address in the "Footer" of your Letter.

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Any similarities to other tutorials is merely a coincidence.
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~January 2007~