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Open a New Image: White canvas
and 370x335 Pixels. (Choose a color that fits your
website, letters, et. cetera.)
Open
the tube you want to use, copy (Ctrl+C) the tube (1), activate
our main picture (2), and paste (Ctrl+V) the copy of the tube on
it.
Right click the tube on our main picture/Properties/
Position & Size (3)/and go to Size.
Check that you have ticked the box Keep aspect ratio
(red arrow) and change the Height to 295 (white hand).
Now we can change the
position of the tube:
Left: 60 and Top: 20 (white arrows).
Click OK and minimize the original tube (1).
Merge All.
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Go
to Effect/dsb flux/Blast and use these settings (depending on the tube you
are using!):
Direction: Left (red arrow)
Blast Amount/Percentage %: 18 (white arrow).
Click OK.
Repeat this effect, but this time you change the Direction of
the Blast (red arrow) to the Right. Use the same Blast Amount
as before.
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Go
to Effect/dsb flux/Mirror and use these settings (depending on
the tube you are using!):
Mirror Position: 49 (1)
Blend: 60 (1)
Direction: Horizontal (red arrow).
Click OK. |
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Now
maximize the original tube, copy it and paste it on your main
picture. Right
click/Properties/Position&Size and resize the tube as we
did before. Afterwards you can position the tube like we did
the first time.
Deselect the tube (click on the background), and choose the
Text Tool. Find a font you want to use - I used SpaceAge (1), Size:
70, Mode: 2D Object, Style: Bold, Color: 176/90/42
(white arrow) and 1 pixel border in the Color: 108/23/8 (white
hand).
Set your mouse marker on your picture (see screenshot - red
arrow).
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Click
the button Tool Settings (1), and now we can change some important
settings. I wanted a vertical text, so tick the box Vertical
(white hand). To make my text looking nice, I changed the setting
Rotate to -90 (white arrow), and the setting Character spacing to
15 (red arrow). The Character spacing setting depends on the font
you've chosen.
First now you can start to write the name you want to appear
vertical on the picture.
Keep the text activated. |
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Right
click/Align/Center Vertically (white arrow).
Keep the Text activated.
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Right
click/Shadow and use these settings:
Black + 5.altern (red arrow) + default settings.
Click OK and deselect the text.
Activate the tube and give it the same kind of shadow as we did
for the text.
Merge All.
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Here's
the result in the original size :))
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That's
it! A stylish, but still very easy Sig Tag ... made with PI
and one 3rd party filter. HAVE FUN!!!
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If you need any help with
this tutorial - or want to make suggestions to improve it -
please email
me!
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