How To Make A Tear Drop Nameplate

A friend told me how to do this and now I'm gonna tell you. It's easy and fun.

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The Download file contains the following file...

house.jpg

Burton's Nightmare Font

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Download and unzip to any file.

Open PSP

Go to FILE>NEW use these settings...

Width: 353

Height: 289

Transparent background.

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Select white as your foreground color (top box).

Select black as your background color (bottom box).

Click on the shapes tool set your control palette like this...

Tool Controls:

Shape: Circle

Style: Filled

Outline Width: 2

Now click in the center of your pic and holding down the mouse button draw

a circle. You want the circle to almost fill the pic like this...

Now on your keyboard, hold down the Ctrl button and hit the A button (Ctrl +A)

this select all. Now single click on the circle this will select only the circle.

Go to IMAGE>DEFORMATIONS>PERSPECTIVE VERTICAL

when the dialog box comes up set it like this...

%Difference: -100

click ok. Now it looks like this...

On your keyboard hold down the Ctrl button and hit the D (Ctrl + D). This will deselect. Ok we want to get rid of the black so click the magic wand and click on the white, go to SELECTION>INVERT now hit the delete key on your keyboard. Go to SELECTION>INVERT again. Now let's open the house.jpg and shrink it by clicking the minus sign. Click the flood fill tool .  On your control palette under Tool Controls set the Fill Style to Pattern and click Options. When the dialog box comes up set The New Pattern Source to the house. Now flood fill the tear. Select none Ctrl + D. Select a color for your text in the foreground color box. I picked a dark red. Now click the text tool , click on the pic where you want you text and select a font. I picked Burton's Nightmare, Bold, Size 22. You can stop here and just add a drop shadow and save it I'm going to do a little more. I'm going to go to IMAGE>PLUG-IN FILTERS>ULEAD WEB. PLUGINS>BUTTON DESIGNER-ANY SHAPE I'm going to use...

Bevel

Bevel Size: 6

Bevel Smoothness: 2

Bevel Type: The second on from the left in the top row

now I'm going to add my drop shadow by going to

IMAGE>EFFECTS>DROP SHADOW and I used these settings...

Color: Black

Opacity: 100

Blur: 7.4

Vertical: 1

Horizontal: 1

Now I'll go to EDIT>CUT, EDIT>PASTE>AS NEW IMAGE

and here's what mine looks like...

If you have any questions please just ask...