Signature Banner tutorial for Paint Shop Pro

9 Nov 2006 > 8 Comments

This tutorial reveals how various effects and settings in psp may be used to enhance your graphics.

These include:

1. Distortion effects (wind and Warp)
2. Texture Effects (blinds)
3. Artistic Effects (Topography)
4. Geometric Effects (skew)
5. 3D effects (Buttonise)
6. Colour Balance
7. brightness and contrast

Tools used:

1. Freehand Select tool
2. Selection tool
3. Eraser tool
4. Text tool

Other:

1. Merge (all and Down) and Duplicate Layers
2. Copying and pasting Layers
3. Set colours in Material box
4. Centre Objects

Signature banner tutorial

Copy (Ctrl+C) and Paste (Ctrl+V) this background into the Paint Shop Pro Workspace.

Copy (Ctrl+C) this image…

…and paste as new layer (Ctrl+L) on top of the background and position it to the right, using the Move Tool in the Tool Bar Palette.

Right click on squirrel layer in the layers palette and select Duplicate.

Go to Effects > Distortion effects > Wind. Set the direction as From Right and the Strengh to 100.

Select the Eraser Tool, in the Tool Bar Palette, with these settings > size: 50; Opacity: 25, and with the squirrel layer highlighted in the Layers Palette, click over the squirrel five or six times to reduce the blurryness, so it looks like this:

Go to Layers > Merge > Merge all (flatten) layers.

Next, go to Adjust > Colour Balance > Colour Balance, and set the Colour Levels to 26, -17, -38.

In the Tool Bar Palette select the Text Tool, and choose the SerpentineDBol font, and make these settings:

1. Create as: Vector
2. Size: 20
3. Stroke Width: 1.0
4. Anti-alias: Smooth

In the Materials Palette set these colours:

1. Forground and Stroke: #1d0c03
2. Background and Fill: #a0330f

Select the Text Tool, and click on the image to enter the text.

Text:

Nuts About (Press Enter)
Squirrels.

Centre (Objects > Align > Centre), and position the text to the left.

Convert the Vector (text) Layer to a Raster Layer, and Duplicate.

Go to Effects > Distortion Effects > Wind, and set the direction From Right and the Strength to 100.

Select the Eraser Tool and (again with these settings > size: 50; Opacity: 25) Left Click over the Text five or six times to reduce the blurryness (like with the squirrel layer above), so it looks like this:

Merge all layers (flatten), and Duplicate.

Go to Effects > Texture Effects > Blinds, and make these settings:

1. Width: 2
2. Opacity: 10
3. Colour: #f8d8af
4. Horizontal: checked

Select the Eraser Tool, and using the same settings, edit out some of the horizontal lines from the image.

Merge Down, and Duplicate.

Go to Effects > Artistic Effects > Topography, and make these settings:

1. Width: 0
2. Density: 100
3. Angle: 45
4. Colour: #ffffff

In the layers palette, reduce the Opacity to 40.

Select the Eraser Tool, using the same settings, and edit out some of the Topography Effect from the image, to smooth it out a bit.

Merge Down, and Duplicate.

Go to Effects > Distortion effects > Warp, and make these settings:

1. Horizontal: 23
2. Vertical: 43
3. Size: 24
4. Strengh: 13

Then, erase over the Squirrel’s head.

Merge Down, and Duplicate.

Go to Effects > Geometric Effects > Skew, and make these settings:

1. Horizontal: checked
2. Skew angle: 25
3. Edge mode: transparent

Select the Freehand Selection Tool from the Tool Bar Palette, and make these settings:

1. Selection type: Freehand
2. Mode: Replace
3. Feather: 3
4. Smoothing: 0
5. Anti-alias: checked

Make your selection around the squirrel, and Cut (Ctrl+X).

Press Ctrl+D to deselect.

Merge down, and Duplicate.

Go to Effects > 3D effects > Buttonise, and make these settings:

1. Height: 28
2. Width: 1
3. Opacity: 23
4. Edge: Solid
5. Colour: #ffffff

Select the Selection Tool, with the following settings…

1. Selection type: Rectangle
2. Mode: Replace
3. Feather: 0
4. Anti-alias: Checked

…and Cut (Ctrl+X) the bottom half of the Buttonised layer.

Press Ctrl+D to deselect.

Merge Down, and Duplicate.

Go to Adjust > Brightness and Contrast > Brightness and Contrast, and make these settings:

1. Brightness: 30
2. Contrast: 30

And reduce the Opacity of the layer to about 40.

Merge down.

And that’s it.

The squirrel photo comes from Stock.xchang.

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