Trying to duplicate this text effect:

http://uploadhut.com/upload/322.jpg

I've been playing with various possibilities. Closest I could get was with t
his
tutorial

http://www.pinoy7.com/psptutorials/lighting.htm

but not close enough.

Ideas?

Thanks!
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in article avhhl0lfkssinrb33h6mdoe6uj1l678k9h@4ax.com, JW at
jdub@nospamforme.com wrote on 09/27/2004 7:13 PM:

> Trying to duplicate this text effect:
>
> http://uploadhut.com/upload/322.jpg
>


Painter will do this effect easy.  You are using the wrong software if you
are using PSP.

Mike <mike@artistmike.com> wrote:

>in article avhhl0lfkssinrb33h6mdoe6uj1l678k9h@4ax.com, JW at
>jdub@nospamforme.com wrote on 09/27/2004 7:13 PM:
> 
>
>
>Painter will do this effect easy.  You are using the wrong software if you
>are using PSP.
>

At $300, I think not. Nor do I think that someone posting from a Macintosh
(User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022) can spea
k
with any degree of authority on this matter...
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jdub@nospamforme.com

in article adkhl05hocqma69hikdvnqtmjnrtmbflm4@4ax.com, JW at
jdub@nospamforme.com wrote on 09/27/2004 7:56 PM:

> Mike <mike@artistmike.com> wrote:
> 
>
> At $300, I think not. Nor do I think that someone posting from a Macintosh
>  can speak with any degree of authority on this matter...

I can indeed type to you with authority, because I have done that effect
with Painter, and have not seen the same effect done by PSP.

So there.

":^) ®



--
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Put some fun in your next logo!

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Mike wrote:
> in article avhhl0lfkssinrb33h6mdoe6uj1l678k9h@4ax.com, JW at
> jdub@nospamforme.com wrote on 09/27/2004 7:13 PM:
>
> 
>
>
>
> Painter will do this effect easy.  You are using the wrong software if you
> are using PSP.

That's all they can afford.

:-)

Uni

JW wrote:

> Trying to duplicate this text effect:
>
> http://uploadhut.com/upload/322.jpg

Looks like KPT5's Shape Shifter filter to me.

>
> I've been playing with various possibilities. Closest I could get was with
 this
> tutorial
>
> http://www.pinoy7.com/psptutorials/lighting.htm
>
> but not close enough.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks!


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Wasn't it JW who wrote:
>Trying to duplicate this text effect:
>
>http://uploadhut.com/upload/322.jpg
>
>I've been playing with various possibilities. Closest I could get was with 
this
>tutorial
>
>http://www.pinoy7.com/psptutorials/lighting.htm
>
>but not close enough.
>
>Ideas?

I may well be able to get a little closer. It's not particularly easy.
Before I get too far into writing a script to do it, could you confirm
that you are running PSP8 or higher. I don't want to go through a lot of
bother and then find that you're running PSP7 and can't use scripts.

--
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 02:13:10 GMT, JW <jdub@nospamforme.com>
wrote:

>Trying to duplicate this text effect:
>
>http://uploadhut.com/upload/322.jpg
>
>I've been playing with various possibilities. Closest I could get was with 
this
>tutorial
>
>http://www.pinoy7.com/psptutorials/lighting.htm
>
>but not close enough.
>
>Ideas?
>
>Thanks!

Learn to use the 3D effects tools on text. I just did something
similar for a corporate ad using PSP9. Just to see if it could be
used for that. It's just as simple to do it in PSP as any other
program I've used.

Choose a similar font to start with. Use your CTRL and SHIFT keys
with your mouse to drag the corners to the angle/perspective that
you want. Then apply the Inner bevel effects (under Effects, 3D
effects). According to your sample I would probably use a text
with a white fill color, and a black stroke border width of about
10-15 (hard to tell because it's all relative to your canvas
size). Your text stroke width is the black frame around your
sample, the rest is all worked on the fill color and inner bevel
settings. Use a gray light in your Inner Bevel settings, a
rounded bevel shape. A bevel width in the 20-30 range seeems to
be about right. I'm playing with it as I'm typing here and I get
something very close to your sample photo with settings like
those just typed.

You'll have to play with the various lighting colors, directions,
ambience, and shininess effects to get exactly what you are
after. That can only be found by playing with it.



unrelated comment:

A problem I ran into in my own project... if PSP only had
full-justify in their text options ... trying to find an easy way
to do that for large columns of text in PSP is a bit of a
nightmare.

I'll just have to port something out of Canvas I guess.

I say when you come to the end and adding that inner bevel effect...
just use a lighter grey tone -
I'm sure there are some awesome silver Blade Pro effects out
there with this type of silvery look... make a search.

--
Cheers,
- T a n y a



"JW" <jdub@nospamforme.com> wrote in message news:avhhl0lfkssinrb33h6mdoe6uj1l678k9h@4ax.co
m...
> Trying to duplicate this text effect:
>
> http://uploadhut.com/upload/322.jpg
>
> I've been playing with various possibilities. Closest I could get was with
 this
> tutorial
>
> http://www.pinoy7.com/psptutorials/lighting.htm
>
> but not close enough.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks!
> --
> jdub@nospamforme.com

ooh... please share the script if and when you do it :)
that's a neat idea :)

--
Cheers,
- T a n y a



"Mike Williams" <nospam@econym.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:0Yyu5JAt3PWBFwY7@econym.d
emon.co.uk...
> Wasn't it JW who wrote: 
>
> I may well be able to get a little closer. It's not particularly easy.
> Before I get too far into writing a script to do it, could you confirm
> that you are running PSP8 or higher. I don't want to go through a lot of
> bother and then find that you're running PSP7 and can't use scripts.
>
> --
> Mike Williams
> Gentleman of Leisure