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Metallic Text

thanks to Miss B to JimL to Juli to Fred for their languages corrections !

If you feel unfamiliar with terms like color palette , layers palette , tools toolbar , tool options menu , please visit this page.

Download the script for this tutorial HERE! (only for psp8 owners).

To download the script , just right click on it and choose "save target as"(if you have a Microsoft O.S. and Browser), now rename the script from MetallicText.txt , to MetallicText.PspScript , then browse for the "script trusted" directory created by Paint shop pro 8 , and save the script into it.

Here's the final image , 80% of its original size.

Open a new 600X300 px , transparent , 24bit of color depth , image.
Pick the "text tool" and type some text on the canvas.

Mine was:
text=307(it should look like a car number)
dimension=200px
bolded=Yes
color=medium gray=RGB 128,128,128.
Font type=Arial
create as a vector and antialias both checked

Psp automatically creates a new "vector layer" for the text.

Now launch the command
objects>align>center in canvas
This will move the text exactly in the center of the canvas.




Now it's time to give a 3d shape to the text.

Since you can't apply any effects to a vector text, you will have to convert the text layer to a raster layer.

To do this , just use the layer menu:
layer>convert to raster layer
or you can right click on the appropriate vector layer in the layer palette and choose "convert to raster layer"



then execute:
Effects>3d effects>inner bevel

using the same tweaking of the image beside

Now we apply an adjustment curve to give a metallic appearance to the text:
Adjust>brightness and contrast>curves (P stays for "Point")

Using these points:
P0:input=0 output=0
P1:input=80 output=167
P2:input=207 output=51
P3:input=255 output=255


Or you can of course copy the curve directly from the image.

We now colorize the text giving it a "bluish like" color.

Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Hue Saturation Lightness


Hue=243°
Saturation=9
Lightness=+7
Colorize=yes

You can of course copy from the image

Time for shadow!
Effects>3d effects>drop shadow

Using the settings of the image

Finished!

If you want to add a background just continue to follow this tutorial , here is my job:

1 - In the layer palette switch to the first layer (layer1 among two layers).

2 - Pick the flood fill tool and in the materials palette set a gradient as the foreground style:
gradient name=blue metallic
style=linear
other=defaults
click the canvas with the flood fill tool.

3 - now apply a Weave effect:
effects>textures effects>weave

copying the tweaking from the image beside.

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