•Written on August 24th, 2002•
*Revised October 5th, 2002
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These tuts were written for Paint Shop Pro versions 7 and 8 but can be applied to later versions provided you know your way around PSP pretty good. The tools you use might look a bit different or in different locations, but otherwise work the same.

 
For this tutorial you will need:
Paint Shop Pro and Super Blade Pro

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Place the M_coconut ice preset in your environments and textures folder inside Super Blade Pro.
Place the Snowdrift font in your Fonts Folder
and the sparkle in your Tubes Folder.
 
 
Lets begin:
Open a new 500 X 300 transparent image.
Click on the the text tool and type in your text.
Using these settings:

 
Snowdrift Font
Size 72
Floating
Anti alias checked
Style Settings:
Stroke:white
Fill: #B6C5DA
With the marching ants still around your text apply the M_coconut ice preset
using Super Blade Pro.
It will be listed in the Environments and Textures folder inside Super Blade Pro which is inside Flaming Pear.
Click on the button shown below.


Apply a drop shadow:

Effects/3D effects/drop shadow
Vertical and Horizontal
Set to 12
Opacity 50
Blur 6.2
Color #202020
OK
Selections/ Select none
Add a new raster layer and send to bottom..Layers/Arrange/Send to bottom
Click on the Flood Fill tool
Change the fill to the icey-blue color #B6C5DA
Stroke: gradient..scroll to the top and click on the #1 gradient(should be the icey-blue and white)

 
 
Horizontal 17 Vertical 21 Radial Gradient Repeats 13


To Eliminate the banding of the gradient when you save:
Effects/Enhance Photo/JPEG Artifact Removal/Strength: Normal/ Amount 50/OK OR  Effects/Noise/Add 3% Uniform.
Add a new raster layer and place the optional sparkle tube in the center of the gradient.
You may wish to crop at this time..but don't crop too close because we are going to add an icy looking frame too.
 
Change your background color to black
Add a border now image/add border/symmetric 15
Grab the Magic Wand and
tap inside the border..marching ants should encase the border
Flood fill with the icy blue color,#B6C5DA
Effects/Super Blade Pro/M_coconutice
Add a drop shadow now:
 
Effects/3D effects/Drop Shadow
Vertical 2 Horizontal 2
Opacity 80 blur
3.7 color: black
Reapply the drop shadow changing the Vertical and Horizontal settings to -2
Selections/Select none
 
                            Resize if need be.                           
All Done!



 
 
 
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