3D PATTERN TEXT

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This tutorial is written, by request, for George. George does his own photography and has been making a lot of seamless tiles using his own work ~~ smiles ~~ and wanted to know how to use one of his patterns in a text and make it 3D. You may visit George's site HERE.

We will be using the Inner Bevel and Drop Shadow in PSP's 3D Effects and also saving your text as a gif using Animation Shop.

My tutorials are only guidelines to help you accomplish a certain creation. Please feel free to be inventive and take whatever liberties you would like. I encourage each of you to do your "own thing" and make your creation yours! Your finished creation is yours to do with as you please.

Screenshots are resized and compressed for faster loading. Don't forget to SAVE your work often.

This tutorial is written in and for PSP Version 7.04 and assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP at a beginners level. I am sure this can easily be done in Version 6 with a few adjustments in paths but I have only used Version 7 so I can't make promises *S*

FOR THIS TUTORIAL YOU WILL NEED:
JASC's PSP (30 day free trial)- You can get it HERE
A Pattern ~~ Any seamless pattern or tile that you would like for your text. I used a pattern made by George. If you would like to use his pattern, right click on the graphic and save to your hard drive.

Step 1:
Open a new image, 500x300, 16 million colors, transparent background. This is quite large so you can see what you are doing. We will be cropping your text later.

Step 2:
Open the pattern that you would like to use, minimize it on your work area. Set your foreground styles to Null and your background styles to Pattern. . When you open your pattern, click the arrow in the edit box and scroll to your pattern.

Click OK and your Color Palette should look like this.

Step 3:
Activate your text tool, , and choose the Font you would like to use. I suggest a wide, bold font and am using Bookman Old Style. I set my size to 60, you choose the size that you prefer. I have Bold checked, center alignment; floating and antialias checked. Type in your text and click OK.

Deselect (Ctrl+D) and save.

Step 4:
Go to Effects-->3D-->Inner Bevel and apply the following settings:

Step 5:
Go to Effects-->3D-->Drop Shadow and apply the following settings. Make sure that your color is set to White.

Offsets=1; Opacity=70; Blur=1; Color=White

Step 6:
Go to Selections-->Select All. Selections-->Float. You will now have marching ants around your text. Go to Layers-->Add New Raster Layer. Keep your text selected. Go to Effects-->3D-->Drop Shadow. Change the Opacity to 100 and the Color to Black.

Deselect and Save. This is how your text should now look.

Step 7:
Go to Layers-->Merge-->Merge Visible. There is a lot of blank area around your text that you will want to crop out. Activate your crop tool, , and draw a rectangle around your text.

To apply you can either double click on your image or go to your tool option box and click Crop Image.

Save your text and remember what folder you saved it in. ~smiles~ We want to save this as a gif, however we added a drop shadow and the gif optimizer in PSP will accentuate that drop shadow. We will use JASC Animation Shop to save our gif. To open AS, click on the film strip on your tool bar, or go to File-->Launch JASC Software Products-->Launch Animation Shop.

Step 8:
Go to File-->Open to open your text in AS. Your dialog box will probably be asking for a .gif extension. In the Files of type, scroll to Paint Shop Pro Image. Navigate to the folder you have saved your text in and click open.

Step 9:
Go to File-->Save and save your image as a gif. AS will automatically bring up your Wizard. Click on Customize.

These are the settings I used in Colors.

Click on the Partial Transparency tab. I used the following settings.

Click OK. Click Next. You will then get this pop up that will show you the Optimization Progress. Click Next.

 

Your next pop up will show you a preview of your original graphic and the optimized graphic. Click Next.

This pop up will show you how big your file size is and how long it will take to download using different modems. Click Finish and you are done!

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial as much as I did creating it for you. I would like to thank my testers from my PSP_Dynasty group.

If you have any problems, comments or questions please do not hesitate to E-mail me.

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