Quick
Slat
To
begin with, I've found many ways to make the slatted signatures
this
is my way! :O)
*My Terms Of
Use..... You cannot rewrite this tutorial / claim it as
your own!
You CANNOT create anything from it for Profit - Also you cannot
create Outlines/Tubes from the finished results and offer these to
anyone, although you may keep the Outlines/Tubes for your own
personal use
You can create Tags/Web sets/Stationary from the Tutorial, as long
as you keep things FREE.
Firstly
finding a great font helps , if your not a good Artist :O)
For
this tutorial I used SC BY THE SEA Font, for the Shell Shape
(
a great seaside dingbat font )
and the
FONT can be downloaded from
HERE
and
the Hula Girl Tube can be got HERE
once
downloaded and placed in your fonts we are ready to begin :O)
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open
a new image 600X400 transparent -
a
nice big workplace to do this one!
Using
your A-Tool and any colour/fillers use the letter A - Text size 72
Now
go to SELECTIONS>> INVERT -
then.......SELECTIONS>>INVERT
again and then press DELETE key
this
should now leave you with an empty SHELL, with marching ants
around it
now
using either the HULA GIRL picture here...
or
one of your own...
highlight
the picture and then copy - CTRL C - then highlight the Slat
image
and
on the top bar of the image like so....

right
click and then...PASTE INTO SELECTION
Sometimes
you will find that the Picture doesn't fit the whole of the Slat
I've
found in this case its easier to flood fill the Slat first with a
any Colour that will go with your picture , ....then copy &
paste the Picture into the slat
then
Deselect - CTRL D
depending
on taste -
you
can either add a inner bevel and drop shadow
inner
bevel setting :O)

Dropped
Shadow Settings :O)

Add
a new raster layer
Add
your Name in your style,, then
LAYERS>>MERGE>>MERGE
VISIBLE
save
as......... that's it all done :O)
Alternatively
you can Add a new layer before the Adding name process
and
paste in the picture only to give a different effect like so...
then
add the name and then Layers>> merge>>merge
visible
and
SAVE AS...
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The Webset is my own personal one for the site
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