This project was done in PSP v9. I'm pretty sure that it can be done in v8. It cannot be done in earlier versions. Supplies Needed: Super Blade Pro And my supplies Here Zipped supplies include: 2 swatches created by myself - extract them to your swatches folder. 2 Gradients-extract to your Gradient folder. (These gradients belong to these swatches. Swatches won't work without them. The emerald gradient I created, the other gradient came from here) 2 SBP presets - extract them to the "environments and textures" folder. The l-m-diamonesque preset came from Lady Magika, site no longer online. The other preset, I'm not sure where the original preset came from, but I altered it for this project. The original preset had the prefix of SB- to it and I'd love to give credit, but don't know whom to credit. :o/ Font: Frankenstien - extract to folder of your choice, open and minimize so that it is available to PSP. Font from www.grsites.com Medium Sparkle tube - extract to a folder of your choice, import as a tube if you choose. Made by me. A little explanation about swatches before we get started. In all the PSP tutorials I've seen on the internet, I've never saw one that uses swatches in it's supplies. I thought it about time to introduce them as supply objects... Some folks aren't familiar with swatches at all. This is one very handy aspect of PSP.  Any type of material you can use as a fill can be saved as a swatch for future use. Here is where your swatches are: as you can see, I have many swatches :oP I reuse uncommon colors like "neon pink" and "honeydew" that aren't easily found in the rainbow palette of colors. When you extract the swatches from the supply zip above to your swatches folder, those swatches will then be in your swatch palette, making them easily and readily available with a click of the mouse. Notice the little black arrow below the color or "swatch" blocks: clicking on it will show you more swatches that may be available. Hovering your mouse over one of those swatch blocks will show you details about it. I do not recommend sharing swatches made of patterns. Color and gradient swatches are very easily shared and I've decided to incorporate this bit of information into this tutorial, to teach you a little about the swatch panel of the materials palette. Oh, one more thing - if you're like me and don't like those funky swatches that came with PSP, you can always click on that trash can icon and delete them. :oP Deleting them sends them to your recycle bin, so if you've change your mind and want them back, you can restore from the bin, as long as you didn't empty the bin, that is. ;) It has been brought to my attention that some aren't able to see the swatches correctly in their materials palette (script error). Please be sure that you extract BOTH of the gradient files above, and also be sure that you are viewing ALL swatches as shown in the screenshot above. The gradients I provide belong to the swatches, and the swatches won't work correctly without these 2 gradients. Now...on to the tutorial. Don't forget to save often as a PSP file. 1. Begin by creating a new image: 400x200px, 72ppi, Transparent, Raster, 16mil colors. 2. Grab your floodfill tool and then locate the emerald-satin-grad_aagm swatch in your swatch panel. Left click on it to set it as your foreground/fill property. 3. Locate the white_satin_lace_grad-aagm in your swatch panel and right click on it to set it as your background/fill property. 4. Left click on your canvas to flood fill Raster 1 layer with the emerald gradient. I know, it's green...we'll get there ;-) 5. Go to Image/Mirror. 6. Add a layer. Still using your floodfill tool, right click on the canvas to floodfill with the white satin lace gradient. (If you're having problems flood filling the entire layer, be sure that your Match Mode is set to NONE, Blend Mode set to NORMAL and Opacity set to 100. I get email all the time concerning this.) 7. Add a layer and set it's blend mode to "Color (Legacy)" 8. Flood fill the layer with the color #FFB8DA. Now it's all "prettily" pink. Cool, huh? 9. Grab your text tool. Set your foreground color to white, and your background color to null.  Set your font properties as so: I know the leading is showing something...but it should say 0. :oP I forgot to change it before screenshot. 10. Type your name or whatever you like. Please note that with the frankenstein font, lower case letters look best. If it doesn't fit on the canvas, change your size down a little - but not too much or the gaps will close up giving you an undesireable look later on. 11. Go to the menu and Objects/Align/Center in Canvas. 12. Right click on Vector 1 layer in the layer palette and duplicate. 13. Hide the Copy of Vector 1 layer by clicking on the glasses beside it in the layer palette. 14. Right click on the Vector 1 layer in the layer palette and choose "Convert to Raster Layer". 15. Go to Selections/Select All. Go to Selections/Float. 16. Go to Effects/Flaming Pear/SuperBlade Pro and apply the aagm_gold-inset.q5q preset. 17. Go to Adjust->Brightness and Contrast->Brightness/Contrast (or Shift +B shortcut) and use these settings: Brightness=10 Contrast=0. 18. Go to Selections/Select None. 19. Unhide your Copy of Vector 1 layer in the layer palette by clicking on the glasses again. Activate the layer by clicking on it once in the layer palette. 20. Grab your Object Selection Tool:  and then switch the foreground and background properties by clicking on this: This should have made the text white filled with no stroke. 21. Right click on the Copy of Vector 1 layer and choose Convert to Raster Layer. 22. Go to Selections/Select All, then go to Selections/Float. 23. Go to Adjust->Add/Remove Noise -> Add Noise and use these settings: 24. Hold down the Ctrl key and press the "y" key 4 times. This is the shortcut for repeating the last step, and we want to repeat the noise 4 times. 25. Go to Effects/Flaming Pear/SuperBladePro and apply the l-m-diamondesque preset. 26. Got to Adjust -> Brightness and Contrast -> Brightness/Contrast and change the brightness to 25. 27. Go to Adjust -> Sharpness -> Unsharp Mask and use these settings: 28. Right click on this layer in the layer palette and choose Merge/Merge Down. 29. Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and use these settings: Horizontal and Verticle= 2; Opacity= 70; Blur= 4; color= Black. 30. Add a new raster layer. Apply sparkles however you like. 31. Add a new raster layer. 32. Floodfill the new layer with #9E5779. 33. Go to Selections/Select All. Go to Selections/Modify/Contract and contract by 2. 34. Hit the delete key on your keyboard. Deselect. 35. Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and use these settings: Horizontal and Verticle = 0; Opacity = 100; Blur = 2. ***TIP ALERT*** Before doing a final save, you can go to Image ->Image Information and click on the "Creator Information" tab. In the description field, add the tutorial url (and other info, such as font used). Then save as a psp file. That information is saved along with the image. The next time you say (to yourself, of course...) "I wish I could remember where that tut is, you will have the information available in the image itself. Cool, huh? Do a final save as a PSP file, then export as a jpg. Here is my final result: And here are a couple more that I made for Suz of Suz's Place for her extreme kindness in helping a total stranger with a request from out of the blue. A fabulous lady!! I've had many ask how I made the matching background for this page. If you'd like to go on and make the background tile I use on this webset, click here.  I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and will check out the rest of the site. Webset designed and © Abby's Alley Graphics & More. All rights reserved. Permission is not granted to anyone for anything to be removed from this page.