Safety-pin.

 

Needs:

  • PSP
  • Scrapperselement IV font by House of Lime, download it here

 

 

  1. Open a 600 x 400 pixel image.
  2. Lock your foreground colour and set background colour to gradient steel.

 

  1. Click on the text icon ‘A’ and enter the ‘w’ with a font size between 100 and 150, make sure that you’ve selected float.
  2. Effect – inner bevel:

  1. Deselect.
  2. Selection tool – rectangle, select the right part of the pin.

  1. Make selection into layer. Selections – layer from selection.
  2. Now click bottom layer and press delete.
  3. Clcik your magic wand inside the pin head, expand selection by 2.
  4. Fill with gradient.
  5. Add the same inner bevel as in step 4.
  6. You can embellish your pin head by filling your new layer with a pattern. Lower the opacity a little.
  7. Save as .png file.

 

© Marank Design

 

~ Translation to English by Renate Rietveld AKA Dragonfly August 2006 ~