Text Effects - Mercury Text

Open PSP

Open a new file

Width: 400

Height: 200

Background color: White

Set your foreground color to white. Click the text tool and pick a rounded font. I picked Background Font 2, Bold, size 36. Make sure to check Antialias & Floating. Go to SELECTIONS>MODIFY>FEATHER by 5 pixels.

Make your foreground color light blue by using these settings...

Hue: 120, Sat: 240, Lum: 180.

Now make your background color brown by using these settings...

Hue: 20, Sat: 240, Lum: 60.

Go to IMAGE>EFFECTS>CUTOUT use these settings...

Shadow Color: Foreground

Opacity: 100

Blur: 5

Vertical: 1

Horizontal: 1

Do it again go to IMAGE>EFFECTS>CUTOUT use these settings...

Shadow Color: Background

Opacity: 100

Blur: 5

Vertical: -1

Horizontal: -1

Set both the foreground and the background to white. Go to IMAGE>OTHER>HOT WAX COATING. Go to IMAGE>SHARPEN>SHARPEN MORE, 2 times. Go to IMAGE>EFFECTS>DROP SHADOW and use these settings...

Color: BLACK

Opacity: 50

Blur: 5

Vertical: 3

Horizontal: 3

Then crop and buttonize and it looks like this...

I, LovlyGypsy, Give my permission to Ldy Archrr aka Artists for PSP to place any and all tutorials that I have made on her site.. this 22nd day of February 2001. These tutorials were made solely by me and permission is mine to give.