Tutorial 18

Text on an Inside Curve

In a previous tutorial you learned how to put text on the outside edge of a curve. This tutorial will show you how to place text on the inside of a curve.

Supplies needed:-

PSP - I am using PSPXI but this will work in most versions.

PSP Tube - The one I used is by Popeye Wong,www.popeyewong.com. Popeye kindly gives general permission for his work to be used. He even has tubes of his work on his site which are free to use.

Becky Mask 24 and Text brush in my supplies Here, and font and splatter brushes of choice. You will find various splatter brushes on deviant art . Go to deviantArt and put PSP splatter brushes in the search and just take your pick of those offered.

Open your tube and font and minimise them until needed. Remember to save your work often so that if your program or pc crashes you do not have to start from the beginning again.

Open a new image about 500 x 500 with resolution set to 72dpi.

Flood fill this layer white.

Now locate your preset shapes, ellipse:-

Draw a large circle on your canvas as a vector with line width 15, foreground a nice bright colour, background null :-

Go to objects, align center:-

Now convert to a raster layer and then apply an Inner Bevel with the following settings:-

Bevel 2, Smoothness 2, Depth 2, Ambience 0, Shininess 2, Colour White, Angle 315, Intensity 50, Elevation 30.

You should now have something like this:-

Now take your magic tool with the following settings and click inside the circle:-

Now go to Selections, Modify and Expand by 4:-

Make your background layer active and right click, new raster layer:-

Now set your foreground colour to a silver or chrome gradient:-

Flood fill with this gradient, then de-select.

Rename this layer fill, and the circle layer frame.

Back onto your background layer, and add another new raster layer. Flood fill this the same colour as your circle frame. Now find your mask:-

Click on mask layer and merge group. rename this Mask. Lower the opacity of the fill layer to about 60:-

Now make your top layer active and copy and paste your tube as a new layer. Resize so that it sits inside the circle. Then add a drop shadow at the following settings:-

Vertical -2, Horizontal 2, Opacity 60, Blur 4, Colour Black.

Now make your fill layer active and add a new raster layer. On the bottom half of the circle add a few splatter type brushes in black, and then change the blend mode to Soft Light:-

Add another raster layer , and add some word art brushes to suit your tube. I have included my brush in the supplies. Position the word art towards the top of the image. You should now have something like this:-

Now for the clever bit. We are going to add our text on the inside of the curve of the circle. Make sure your top layer is the active layer and go back to your preset ellipse shape. With your foreground set to black , and the line width at about 2, draw a circle slightly smaller than the red frame circle:-

Take your text tool, with the font of your choice at about 36 size, hover the cursor over the bottom right hand side of the circle until you see the A with the curve under it. Click and type your text , making sure you are creating the text as a vector layer.

Now grab the centre node on the right hand side and pull it across the text to the opposite side:-

Your text will now look like this:-

Now grab the centre node and move the text so it sits centrally in the bottom of the circle. Then go to Image-Mirror :-

Re-adjust the position of the text if necessary. Now on the layer palette, click the plus sign on the vector layer and then x out the New Ellipse:-

The black circle is now no longer visible. Right click back into Vector 1 and convert to a raster layer.

Now x out the white background layer, right click into any of the other layers and merge visible. OPen the background back up then resize your image by 90%, Bicubic, making sure all layers is checked:-

On the merged layer, go to Adjust - Sharpness-Sharpen:-

Now add your copyright layer,license number if necessary and taggers mark .

Now save as a psp image in the layers, then either save as or export as a jpeg.

If you have any queries on this tutorial , please contact me. I would also love to see your results.

This Tutorial was written in July 2010 by Helen Peachey, and the concept of the tutorial is copyrighted.
Please feel free to LINK to the tutorial and/or print it out for your personal use,
but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or re-write without permission.
The image you create using this tutorial is for you to do what you wish except for monetary gains or for merchandising.
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