Text Effects - 3D Cutout Text

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Width: 400

Height: 200

Background color: White

Pick a foreground color. Light to medium color works best. Since I already have light purple there that's what I'm going to use. Click the text tool and pick a font. I'm using the same font with the same settings. Go to SELECTIONS>SELECT NONE. Go to IMAGE>BLUR>MOTION BLUR use these settings...

Direction: 45 Deg.

Intensity: 20 pixels

Now click the selection tool and draw a rectangle around your text. Go to EDIT>COPY. Make sure you have white as your background color. Hit the delete key on the keyboard. Go to EDIT>PASTE>AS TRANSPARENT SELECTION. Now the text is selected again. Go to IMAGE>OTHER>HOT WAX COATING. Do the motion blur again with the same settings. Go to SELECTIONS>MODIFY>EXPAND by 1 pixel. Go to IMAGE>BLUR>SOFTEN. Now click the text tool again and lay the same text like this...

Now to give it the cutout effect go to SELECTIONS>MODIFY>CONTRACT by 3 pixels. Go to IMAGE>EFFECTS>CUT OUT use these settings...

Shadow: Black

Opacity: 100

Blur: 10

Vertical: 4

Horizontal: 5

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

Well, that's it. Pretty cool huh?

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.