Angel on Top

You will need:

Paint Shop Pro
Eye Candy 4000 - Gradient Glow
Tube of choice
Font of choice or use the same as me Angel
Mask which you can download Here.  We are using 'bubble edge'.  Thank you to Essex Girl for these great masks.  You can visit her whole site Here

Lets get started.  Put you mask into your mask folder.  Open a new canvas, 600 x 500, transparent.  Click print screen on your keyboard, then paste as a new image.  Crop around the canvas part of the image, and copy and paste this as a new layer on your original canvas.  This is going to be your background.  Flood fill your original background layer with white.

Activate the checked layer, we are now going to colorize it.  I want mine to be darker, so I'm going to change the brightness.   Go to adjust/brightness/contrast, and set the brightness to -85 and the contrast to 0, or whatever you would prefer.  Then go to colorize and change the colour to match your tube.

With the checked background active, go to Layer/ Load/Save Mask/Load Mask from Disk, with these settings.

 

Merge group.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, resize as necessary and position towards the top of you canvas.  Add a drop shadow of V - -1, H - 1, Opacity 50, Blur 5.

Now we are going to add your name.  I'm going to use Angel.  Change your colours to the two coloured in your checked background, stroke width to 0.  Then change your background to foreground-background gradient, with these settings:

Write out your name, create as a vector layer, then stretch out to the desired width and height.  Leave some space at the base for the next stage.

Add a gradient glow to your text as follows

 

Add the same drop shadow you added to your tube, then add the gradient glow again, and then the drop shadow.  Position this below your tube, and move it up so that your tube is resting on the top.

 

Merge your tube down to  your text and duplicate the layer.  On the bottom merged layer, using your pick tool (or deform tool on earlier psp's), drag the top node down below the bottom node.  Go to adjust/blur/gaussian blur = 2.  You may need to move it up a little so it sits right underneath the text.

Before you add your copyright, you may want to resize your tag.  I'm resizing mine by 85%.  Add your copyright and save as a jpeg.

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 10th June 2007 by Faerie Queen.