*Mega* Tutorial - BZ Homepage Banner - Part 2
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In this *mega* tutorial, you can learn to make
cool backgrounds, sigs (signatures), banners, and
wallpapers. Learn effects such as transparent lines
and shapes, clouds filter in Paint Shop Pro (PSP),
and scanlines and grids. This tutorial was written
for Paint Shop Pro (PSP), but can probably be used
for other versions as well.
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Now it is time to add the text. Make a new
layer by going to Layers- New Vector Layer
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The next thing I did was add hexagons. I
made them previously and saved them as a tube.
Click
here
to download the hexagon tube, then save them
to your tubes folder in you Paint Shop Pro
(PSP) directory. Create a new Raster layer
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To make it look more high tech, I added
small text to a few areas. Add a new vector
layer
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The last step is to add high tech lines to
the background. To do this, you first select
the pencil tool
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Done!Congradulations! You have just created a cool banner! Use all of these techniques to create your own, stunning graphics. Good Luck! |
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, and name this layer "text". The font I used
was
, and name the layer "hexagons". Click of the
tube button
, change the scaling to whatever you want( I
used 100 and 50), zoom in and add them to
wherever you want.
. Now, copy a paragraph or two of any text(it
could even be from this page), and change the
size to 2. Preview and add carriage returns
until you have the text block that you
want.
with a width of 1, and then start doodling
lines on the background. Make weird 3-D shapes
to get the best effect. Last, adjust the
opacity of the layer to about 17.Current Comments
6 comments so far (post your own)I think this is an all-time great tutorial - I read it months ago and have just found it again!!
You are a truly fine teacher and have helped me so much. Thank you and keep inspiring us!
Posted by Cailean Mac (www.highlandcathedral.org)on Wednesday, 07.20.05 @ 11:05am | #615
happy valentines day muahhhh
Posted by Daniely Diaz on Monday, 02.27.06 @ 05:45pm | #873
hii u saw ma beautiful
Posted by Daniely Diaz (ddrcutieg91@yahoo.com)on Monday, 02.27.06 @ 05:46pm | #875
INSANE!! thnx chief
Posted by Olly on Wednesday, 08.23.06 @ 06:41am | #2582
INSANE!! thnx chief
Posted by Olly on Wednesday, 08.23.06 @ 06:41am | #2583
Awsome tutorial! How do you code it?
Posted by cas_kitkat on Tuesday, 04.17.07 @ 04:16pm | #2844
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