Alpha 2

 

Needs:

PSP

Image or pattern

Filter – Blade Pro

 

  1. Open a transparent image 300 x 300
  2. Set foreground colour to white, background colour of your choice.
  3. Select Basic tool rounded square.

  1. Draw a nice square.
  2. New layer, lock your background colour for now.
  3. Select basic tool circle and draw a small circle on top of the square while holding down the SHIFT-button.
  4. Move the circle to centre it.

 

  1. Merge layers.
  2. Select white edge with magic wand.
  3. Plug-in filters – Flaming Pear – Blade Pro set to your own liking.

 

  1. Deselect.
  2. Select the inner circle with the magic wand.
  3. Fill with pattern or copy and paste the image into selection.
  4. Keep the selection – inner bevel set to:

 

  1. Keep selection – new layer.
  2. 3-D effects – cutout with the following settings:

 

  1. Repeat with vertical and horizontal set to -3.
  2. New layer.
  3. Select brush/airbrush.

 

  1. Spray a small white rounding in the top left and bottom right, see example below.

  1. Adjust – blur – Gaussian Blur, set to 15.
  2. You’ll now have this:

 

  1. Merge visible layers. Now save as .png file for this will be your template.
  2. New grid layer.
  3. Set fore- and background colour to white and pick a suitable font.
  4.  Select the text tool:

 

Enter the desired character.

 

  1. Effects – Plug-in filters – Flaming Pear – Blade Pro with the same setting as used with the edge.
  2. Deselect and save as .png-file.
  3. Delete text layer.
  4. Repeat steps 24 - 29 until the entire alphabeth is completed.

 

 

Good luck with this lesson !

© Marank Design

 

~ Translation by Renate Rietveld aka Dragonfly June 2006 ~