Logo Tutorial #1

The first tutorial covers how to make Color Chrome Text.  The following instructions are to be used with Paint Shop Pro 5.  Get the demo at www.jasc.com

Just follow the steps in order. :)

1.)  Open a new image with the following aspects.  400 x 200 pixels.  White Background, 16 million colors.   Click Ok.

2.) Set your foreground and background color as white.  Click Ok.

3.)Select Text Tool.  Pick a font, something nice.  In this case i picked Klingon Dagger font Bold Size: 72.    Make sure Floating and Antialias are checked.  Slam it down on your image.  Click Ok.

4.)Ok your text should be just an outline, dont worry thats the way it should look like.  Now go to Image then Other select Hot Wax Coating.  Repeat this 5 times.   Usually this process takes 5-8 Hot Wax Coatings, depends on type and size of font. Just do it until it looks like this. 

5.)  Now go to Image then Effect select Drop Shadow.  Set the settings to the following:  Opacity: 80, Blur: 5, Vertical Offset: 5, Horizontal Offset: 5.   Click Ok.  Amazing what a shadow does...

6.)  Now comes the creative part. Be sure to play around with this setting to get the color you want.  Got to Colors then Colorize.  Set the Hue: 160 and the Saturization: 140.  You will get the following...

Just Crop Your Image and you are DONE!

That concludes Tutorial #1.  Any Questions?