Peacock Nametag

Requires: PSP 5 or 6

BladePro

Font - Baby's Breath

Dingbat-Baby breath

Presets

DOWNLOAD < Font, Dingbat & Presets

Credits:

The Cornflower preset came from:

CS Green Designs

The BlueberryIce preset came from:

Shelly's Website

I got the Baby'sBreath font from The Font Garden and it said that it was a free font.

Included: Blade Pro Settings at bottom

1. Open new image 400 x 300, background white (I like a lot of space to work).

2. If you want a background on the tag, then flood fill now.

3. Add a new layer .

4. Make sure the foreground and background is set to white. Click the on the toolbar, then click on the image to bring up the text window.

5. Choose the "Baby's Breath" font, capital A (peacock), size 150 -- click OK.

The peacock should show up on the image as a "marching ant" outline.

Note: The font will have the peacock facing to the left. I wanted the peacock to be on the left side of my tag. So, on the top toolbar, I clicked on "Image", then "mirror". This flipped the peacock around so it was facing to the right.

(Peacock after "Mirror")

6. While still selected (marching ants), open Blade Pro and apply the preset. I used "Cornflower". It looked a little light, so (on the top toolbar) I went to Color--->Adjust--->Gamma Correction.

With the "Link" box checked (this will move all the sliders at the same time), set the slider to 20, click OK.

Then I repeated the Color--->Adjust--->Gamma Correction (still set at 20) once more.

This deepened the color and brought out some highlights.

9. Add favorite drop shadow.

8. With the peacock still selected (marching ants), click on the "Move" tool button and position the peacock in the upper left corner of the image. (Note: If you are going to buttonize the tag, be sure to leave some room between the edge of the image and the peacock.)

9. Deselect the image (Selections--->Select None).

10. Add a new layer.

11. Click on on the toolbar, then on the image to open the text window.

I used the font "Fleurish Script" size 58. Type your text. Click OK.

The text should again be in a marching ant outline.

12. Open Blade Pro and apply the preset. For the text, I used "Blueberry Ice".

13. While still selected, I again went to Color--->Adjust--->Gamma Correction (should still be set to 20) and applied it once.

14. Apply drop shadow.

15. Click on the "Move" tool and position the text under the peacock's feet.

16. After you have it where you want it, deselect the text. Now, here is where working with layers comes in handy. Let's say you want to reposition the peacock. All you have to do is click on the Toggle Layer Palette on the top toolbar, and click on Layer 1,

close the window, then click on the Move tool. This will allow you to do move the peacock without disturbing the rest of the image. When you're done moving the bird, open the Toggle Layer Palette again, click on Layer 2. This will take you back to the text layer so you can reposition the text again.

17. Go to Layers--->Merge--->Merge All. Then crop to the size you want.

18. Now, go to Image--->Resize. Set it to resize 90%, click OK.

19. Sharpen the image to your liking. Now, you can leave it as is, add a border, buttonize, whatever you like....then save it and you're done!

I, MzShaunB, give my permission to Ldy Archrr aka Artists for PSP to place any and all tutorials that I have made on her site.. this is the 8th day of November 2000. These tutorials were made solely by me and permission is mine to give.

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