"Ave. Denim Tag"
 
  
 
Rated: Intermediate
Supplies Needed:
*PSP
*Font: Chick >Here<
*Custom Brushes from >Moon's Design<<
*Zip File*
 *Right click and save these two Twinks
in "My Documents."
Open a new tranparent image in PSP7,
size 500 x 500.
Add your name with stroke
set to #2C2F70 and fill set
to the bluejean pattern.
(Scale 100% and Angle #0.)
Font: Chick
Size 100 for the first letter of your name
and size 72 for the other letters.
*For my name I set the Kerning at 45.*
You might need to ajust this
setting a little more or less, to keep your
text from being too close together.*
 
 
 
*Create as Vector selected.*
Click ok.
 
   
 
Now, push and pull your name
using your cursor (where the
boxes are) to get the size
that you want.
 
 
 
Go to Layers>Convert to Raster Layer.
Rename this layer Name.
Next go to Effects>PlugIns>EyeCandy3.1,
Inner Bevel and apply the following settings.
 
Bevel Width (pixels) #3.
Bevel Shape: Mesa.
Smoothness #7.
Shadow Depth #27.
Highlight Brightness #47.
Highlight Sharpness #100.
Direction #135.
Inclination #45.
 
Effects>Sharpen>Sharpen.
 
Click on the very first layer
we added (at the bottom,
Layer1), flood fill with white,
and rename it Wht_Bkgrd.
 
Click on your text (name) layer,
duplicate it once, and X out the
original name layer.
 
Click on the Selection Tool>Rectangle
Feather 0 and Antialias checked.
Draw a small rectangle at the bottom
of your first letter.
 
Using the magic wand, click inside 
of the selected area.
 
 
 
 
Add a new layer, and flood fill
using the gold pattern.
Deselect.
Go to Effects>Sharpen>Sharpen.
 
Duplicate the gold layer
as many times as you want,
to add to your first letter.
*Use the mover tool, to
space them evenly.*
 
  
*Repeat the same steps above to
add gold to any other letter of
your name. Or you can use the lasso tool
to go around one bar of the gold
on your first letter, then go to Edit>Copy,
Edit>Paste as a new layer.)
 
  
 
When finished, delete the copy of your name
and X out the white background layer.
Click on one of the goldfill layers and go to
Layers>Merge>Merge Visible and rename it gold.
 
Un-X the original layer of your name
and the white background.
 
Click on the name layer, and using
the selection tool set to rectangle,
draw a small rectangle as shown.
 
 

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*This tutorial was written by Mz.TapŠ on Nov. 25, 2003. 
*Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental. 
All Rights Reserved.* Feel free to "text link" to this tutorial, but
 please do not copy, rewrite, translate, place it (or the zip files),
 anywhere on the web, send via email, or claim it as your own.
 *Background by Mz. Tap, exclusive for this tutorial.*