Working With Fonts

Working with Fonts

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Feel free to use your own colors for this.

For this tutorial you will need Jasc PSP 9 . This was written using 9 but it can be done in 8 or 7 with a few adjustments.

Super Blade Pro

Eye Candy 4000

You can use any state font you like. I am from Alaska. I got the Alaskan Ice font from Character at http://www.annexcafe.com/newsgroups/

Thank you Character for making it.

You can get the Alaskan Ice font here.

Open a transparent canvas 500X500. Set your font as in screen shot below.

Set background and foreground color to black. Click on the font tool and type out your name or state, what ever you like. Convert to raster layer. Zoom in and check all lines to make sure they are all connected. Use your paint brush set at size 1 and paint in to make the line solid. We don't want any gaps in the lines. See screen shots below.

Clean out some of the holes at the bottom so the back ground will show.

After you have checked all the lines and cleaned out the holes, lock the layer pallet. Flood fill with white if you are going to use Super Blade Pro on it. If you want it to be just a color flood fill with the color of your choice. You can use eye candy 4000 Bevel Boss. I will give examples for both.

For super blade pro: Click on selection tool then select all. Apply SBP preset of your choice.

For Bevel Boss: Apply setting below.

Add new raster layer. Use you paint brush I just used the +round 05 settings. Paint all the snow topped areas. Don't worry about it having jaggy edges we will smudge it out some.

Lock layer pallet apply cutout, horizontal and vertical 0, opacity 100, blur 9, color #cec8fc. Unlock layer pallet. Smudge using settings below.

Smudge up just a bit on the top, and down on the bottom as in screen shot.

Click back on your outline layer. Use the magic wand and hold down the shift key. Click inside all the areas inside the state. Go to selections/modify/expand selection by 2. Add new raster layer. Use the sm-forgetmenot tile or tile of your choice. Open tile minus it on psp desktop. Open pattern and select tile angel 0, scale 25. Use your paint brush and paint the areas. Deselect and paint in some of the small areas Make sure you are on the new layer you added. Right click and save to your puter the tile below.

Lock the layer in the layer pallet. Apply cutout horizontal and vertical 0, opacity 100, blur 11, color #0a0a1a.

Click back on your outline layer. I applied a drop shadow, horizontal and vertical 0, opacity 100, blur 10, color #1d155d. Make sure you have the shadow on new layer checked. I erased every where but around the A area as in screen shot. Ctrl + D to duplicate image. Save so you can change the colors or background. Merge visible.

That's all there is to it.

Below is a few other ways I did some fonts.

I used Super Blade Pro on these. I love the SBP at Meadows Studio. The glass and coconutice are one of my favorites.

The two below I used Eye Candy Bevel Boss and Shadow lab.

Below I didn't use any bevel or SBP just drop shadows. The font is Alfonso Whitehead, foreground set to color and size 1, background set to nil. Select inside as you did above. Flood fill with tile or gradient.

June 15, 2005

Hope everyone had fun with this. If you need any help just ask.

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