Title: Affecting Text in PSP(7+) pt 2: Flame Text
Description: Difficulty: Easy
Description: Difficulty: Easy
BlindTaleTeller - February 24, 2007 03:40 AM (GMT)
Flame Text ((adding affect pt 2))
What You'll Need:
1. Any font, though a flowing one something along the lines/appearance of Calligrapher or Caliph is best.
2. A .jpeg image of fire. Real fire works best and gives the best result obviously.
3. A .gif or .jpeg image of fire -- still images are best.
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1. Open a new file, 16 million colors, with a white background. Select Black as your fill color, with nothing as your outline, and add some text: make certain the 'floating' checkbox is checked. Some fonts look better if you use italics. I'm using Caliph in this demonstration, unitalicised.
2. Once you have the text set, go to 'Selections>Promote to Layer'. The selection maquees should disappear, and the pic should look like this: do not merge the layers.
3. Next choose the retouching tool (the hand with a pointing finger.) In the Tool Control Panel set it to 'Smudge', and under Brush Tip set the shape to 'Round', the Size to 13 for now ((though depending on the thickness of your font you may want to adjust the size a little)), the opacity to 50, the Hardness to 0, the Density to 100, and the Step to 1. Use the Smudge tool to make little flames by pulling up. This is what the text looked like when I was done:
4. Next we actually add the flame: open up either your .jpeg or the still shot .gif and paste it as yet aanother new layer into your current work. Now set the layer blend mode to lighten. This is a great time to save your work as a PSP image (.tub etc on the list) so that you can make the background behind the text to fit the scemes of any site you stick it on, etc. It should now appear on your screen like this:
5. The Fire Button/Banner Technique is easy.. on the last step, after pasting as a new layer, set your blend mode to 'Hard Light' instead of 'Lighten'. The result should be something like this:
6. Once you're finished changing your background colors and whatnot, merge your layers and save appropriately..
((the pic used for the last example was a seperate attempt, as I goobered and forgot to save inbetween. Don't forget to save with your layers still seperated!!))
What You'll Need:
1. Any font, though a flowing one something along the lines/appearance of Calligrapher or Caliph is best.
2. A .jpeg image of fire. Real fire works best and gives the best result obviously.
3. A .gif or .jpeg image of fire -- still images are best.
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1. Open a new file, 16 million colors, with a white background. Select Black as your fill color, with nothing as your outline, and add some text: make certain the 'floating' checkbox is checked. Some fonts look better if you use italics. I'm using Caliph in this demonstration, unitalicised.
2. Once you have the text set, go to 'Selections>Promote to Layer'. The selection maquees should disappear, and the pic should look like this: do not merge the layers.
3. Next choose the retouching tool (the hand with a pointing finger.) In the Tool Control Panel set it to 'Smudge', and under Brush Tip set the shape to 'Round', the Size to 13 for now ((though depending on the thickness of your font you may want to adjust the size a little)), the opacity to 50, the Hardness to 0, the Density to 100, and the Step to 1. Use the Smudge tool to make little flames by pulling up. This is what the text looked like when I was done:
4. Next we actually add the flame: open up either your .jpeg or the still shot .gif and paste it as yet aanother new layer into your current work. Now set the layer blend mode to lighten. This is a great time to save your work as a PSP image (.tub etc on the list) so that you can make the background behind the text to fit the scemes of any site you stick it on, etc. It should now appear on your screen like this:
5. The Fire Button/Banner Technique is easy.. on the last step, after pasting as a new layer, set your blend mode to 'Hard Light' instead of 'Lighten'. The result should be something like this:
6. Once you're finished changing your background colors and whatnot, merge your layers and save appropriately..
((the pic used for the last example was a seperate attempt, as I goobered and forgot to save inbetween. Don't forget to save with your layers still seperated!!))