Text Effects Using The Ulead Filters

Flaming Text - Icy Text - Raised Text

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Open PSP

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Flaming Text

Open a new file

Width: 300

Height: 200

Transparent background.

.Make sure black is your foreground color or in the top box. Click the text tool and select any font. I picked Arial font, Bold, Size 20, make sure to check Floating. Leave it selected and go to IMAGE>PLUG-IN FILTERS>ULEAD EFFECTS>TYPE when the dialog box comes up, at the bottom right click the down arrow until you see the flaming word...Ulead and click on it. The dialog box looks like this...

I have my inside color set to yellow, the middle color set to orange and the outside color set to red. The slider that says Strength (1..10) is how you set the size of your flames. 1 being the smallest and 10 being the biggest. I have mine set to 5. Click ok. Mine looks like this...

Now I could stop there and save it and it would look like this...

Now that doesn't really look that bad but I want to put some black in the letters. So with it still selected go to SELECTIONS>INVERT now the inside of the letters and all around it are selected. Click the flood fill tool and fill the inside of the letters with black. Now it looks like this...

Now I want to add a drop shadow but first I have to deselect it by going to SELECTIONS>SELECT NONE. Now click the selection tool and draw a rectangle around your words and single click inside the rectangle. Go to IMAGE>EFFECTS>DROP SHADOW I used these settings...

Color: Black

Opacty: 100

Blur: 7.1

Vertical: 1

Horizontal: 1

Now I am going to go to EDIT>CUT, EDIT>PASTE>AS NEW IMAGE

and save it as .jpg and this is what it looks like...

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Icy Text

I am going to use the file already open that we cut the flaming text from.

If you don't have that use these settings...

Open a new file

Width: 300

Height: 200

Transparent background.

Ok, using black as your foreground color, click the text tool and pick any font. I picked Arial Black, Bold, Size 20 again make sure Floating is checked and click ok. With it still selected go to IMAGE>PLUG-IN FILTERS>ULEAD EFFECTS>TYPE when the dialog box comes up, at the bottom right click the down arrow until you see the icy word...Ulead and click on it. My inside color is white, my middle color is light gray, my outside color is dark gray and my strength is 3. Click ok. Now go to IMAGE>EFFECTS>DROP SHADOW and use the same settings you used on the flaming text. I went to EDIT>CUT, EDIT>PASTE>AS NEW IMAGE and saved it as a .jpg and it looks like this...

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Raised Text

Again I am going to use the file already open that we cut the icy text from.

If you don't have that use these settings...

Open a new file

Width: 300

Height: 200

Transparent background.

Pick any color for your foreground color. I picked red. Click the text tool and select any font. I picked Balloon XBd BT, Bold, Size 28 again make sure Floating is checked and click ok. With it still selected go to IMAGE>PLUG-IN FILTERS>ULEAD WEB. PLUGINS>BUTTON DESIGNER-ANY SHAPE when the dialog box comes up, where it says Bevel Type I click the bottom arrow one time and picked the second one from the left. The dialog box looks like this...

Where it says Bevel size (0..200) I slide it all the way to 200 and where it says Bevel smoothness (0..100) I slide it to 0 and clicked ok. now I'm going to add a drop shadow and I'm going to use the same settings as before. I went to EDIT>CUT, EDIT>PASTE>AS NEW IMAGE and saved it as a .jpg and it looks like this...

That's it. If you have any questions please just ask...