Saturday, 15 November 2014

Reflection

You will need:
Paint Shop Pro
Images of choice - I'm using the fabulous are to Deacon Black.  Mine was purchased from CILM
Fat Font of choice or the one I used Dumbass

Open a blank canvas, flood fill with black (we will change this later).  Take your text tool, select your chosen font, set to vector, Foreground white, back ground null, stroke 5.  This is why we are using a black background, so you can see what your doing.  Drag out your font to the desired size.  If using the same font as me, and you have any letters that are back to front, you may want to select these and flip them after you have converted them to raster layer.

Now take one of your chosen images and place it behind your first letter.  With the text layer activated, take your selection tool, and select inside the first letter.  Selections/Modify/Expand by 3.  Activate your image, Selections/Invert, then hit delete.  Select none.  Repeat this until you have filled all your letters.

Once you have filled all the letters, hide the text layer and background layer, and merge visible.  You may then unhide these layers.  Colourise your picture layer, if you used black and white images, like I did.  Choose whatever colour you like.  Then on your text layer, add a drop shadow of H & V = 0, Opacity 70, and Blur 10.  Merge the text down to the picture layer.  You may now flood fill your background layer with white.

Duplicate your merged text layer, and flip the original.  Position this with the bottoms of the top and bottom layers touching each other.  Using your deform tool, drag up the bottom (or top, which ever way you want to look at it lol) a touch, and holding down the shift key, pull in the top, and drag out the bottom, to make it look like it's laying down.  See finished tag for idea of what I mean.

When happy, ensure it's positioned right, and lower the opacity to 60.

Back on the duplicated text layer (the one we didn't deform), go to Effects/Illumination Effects/Starburst, and add the following settings (you may want to position your cross to your liking.  I positioned it on the centre letter in the name)

Add your copyright, and save as a jpeg, and you are done.

Please feel free to link to this tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but DO NOT copy it in ANY way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write without my permission.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental.   Thank you.  This tutorial was written on the 9th March 2008 by Faerie Queen.
 


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