Starry Goth


 

You will need

PSP

Mask HERE

Tube and Font of your choice

Or

Find and open your mask in PSP. Place it to the side for now.

Open your tube and duplicate it by pressing Shift and D. Close your original.

Add a new rastor layer to your copy and flood fill it with a color of your choice. Put this layer beneath your tube layer.

Add a new rastor layer and flood fill it with white. Put it beneath the first flood filled layer.

Your tube layer should be on tup now.

Highlight rastor layer #2, the middle one.

Layers - New Mask Layer From Image - Maskestrelos

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow

Vertical 2

Horizontal 2

Opacity 45

Blur 5

Color: Black

Image - Resize - 66% (pixels) Resample using Smart Size, Resize all layers - unchecked.

Now go to your tube layer and apply a Drop Shadow

Vertical 2

Horizontal 2

Opacity 100

Blur 10

Color: Black

Now for the text: I used the Font, Easily Amused:

Size 48 and Stroke Width 1

Foreground same color used in the mask and background color white. Create as a vector.

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow same as for your tube layer.

New raster layer for artists watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible

Resize to 400 on the longest side or whatever you feel looks best.

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

Export as jpg.

 
 
 
Thank you to Gregory Griffin for giving permission for the use of their artwork.
Please DO NOT copy this tutorial to put online, pass out or re-write without my permission. You may link to them or print them out for your own personal use.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.
 
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