Tutorial written by Nemesis



For this tutorial you will need:

Psp 7

Eyecandy 4000

Muras meister copies

These Font
Chell Crome font
Floor tile patterns

This tube:
Birds


The corner brushes you can find here:
Brushes

Open up a new image 500*500 pixels with a transparent background.
Select the text tool, set the font to Floortiles and put in the letter A
use size 200 and set both stroke and fill to black.
Make sure you got antialias and floating ticked.

Now pick up the eraser tool and erase all the stuff you got inside the
square. Select the magic want and click outside the square then go to
selections/ modify/ expand and expand by 2.
Then go to effects/ plugins/ eyecandy 4000/ jiggle and add with these settings...

movement type: turbulence
bubble size: 20.16
warp amount: 18.72
twist: 49

Deselect (ctrl+d)
you should have something looking like this now...



Add a new raster layer (layers/ new raster layer)
Then use the text tool and add the letter O with the size 50
set stroke to null and tick bold. Place this box in the middle of
the big one deselect it. Highlight the first layer then pick up the magic wand
and select the inside of the square. Go to selections / modify / expand and expand with 1.
Hightlight the second layer again then go to effects/ plugins / muras meister/ copies
Use these settings...



Deselect.
Duplicate this "wave layer" then go to image/rotate and rotate with 90 degrees to the left.
then go to image / flip. Use the mover tool and place the two waves like this...



Hide these too layers by clicking on the glasses to "x-out".
Then highlight the first layer and once again select the inside
of the square, expand by one and then flood fill with this colour: #F6CCC0
Then select the air brush and paint like this... (with this colour: #E59175)



Go to effects/ texture effects/ mosaic antique and add with
number of columns and rows set to 25. Tile opacity: 75, Grout width: 2
and grout opacity: 34.

Now with the inner box still selected select the paint brush, set the settings to custom.
And get the corner brush you want. Use these settings...



Set the stroke colour to: #8B3B2D
Add the brush with one click in the left upper corner.
Deselect and make the other two layer visible.
You should now have something like this...



Add a new raster layer and add the tube with 75% scale. Use the mover tool
to move it into place. Then go to effects/ 3d effects/ drop shadow.
Add with these settings...

Horizontal: -1
Vertical: 16
Opacity: 34
Blur: 7.7

With all that done go to layers/ merge/ merge visible
Add a new raster layer, then add text with these settings...



If you got a long name you might want to use the deformation tool to
change the lenght of the size so that it's as long/ short as the box.



Now select the magic wand and select all the see through bits of the text.
To select more than one bit at the time hold down the shift key whilst selecting.
Expand by 2 then flood fill with black. Now contract with 1 and select the brush
you used before again. now simply add click randomly with the brush over the text
Use both #F6CCC0 and #E59175 to give it some texture.
When done add a dropshadow with these settings...

Vertical: -1
Horizontal: -1
Opacity: 34
Blur: 7.7

Now merge visible and add the same drop shadow as you used on the text
on the whole image. Save as .jpg and you are done !
woooo hooooo ! I hope it was well worth the effort @-}--


Hope you had fun!
Happy psp.ing :0P


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