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Sploosh Tag
You will need :
Corel Paint Shop Pro
Plugins Vanderlee Snowflakes
Flower Font
A tube of your choice.
Mask here
I am using the artwork of Maria von Bruggen.
You may like to name your layers as you go along, I will leave this for you to decide.
1. Open a new transparent image 400x400 pixels.
2. Choose a prominent colour in your tube and make it the foreground color.
3. Background color black.
4. fill layer with your foreground color.
5. Layers Load Disk from Mask, Check Source Luminance, Fit to Canvas,Hide all mask. Apply.
6. merge group.
7. New Layer fill with black. Apply mask to this layer.
8. Merge group.
9 Duplicate your first layer (foreground colour) and bring layer to top.
10. Click on black layer and resize by 80% (resize all layers unchecked)
11. Click on top foreground color layer and resize by 80% twice.
12. Your image should now look like this. Add drop shadow to each of your 3 layers at these
settings
V&H 1, Opacity 80, Blur 6
13 Add tube, resize if necessary. Add same drop shadow. and repeat changing only V & H to -1.
14. Open your font, flower and with size at 48, stroke 2, type desired text below image.
15. Objects, Align, Horiz. in Center. (This centers your text)
16. Turn off all layers, except for text.
17. With your magic wand, making sure feather is 0, select the hollow text.
18. Selections, expand by 2.
19 New Layer fill selection with black.
20 If you are not going to animate, your tag is complete.
To animate it go to the Next page.
Duplicate this layer twice.
20. return to your black mask layer and duplicate this twice.
21. Bring your text, tube and small foreground color mask layers to above the black text.
22. If any of your tube is showing on your black text, erase that part of the tube.
22. Now merge one black text layer with one black mask layer - repeat for all 3 layers.
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