Solitude

Supplies:
Paintshop Pro (I use V9)
1 tube of choice, mine is from a photograph by Anita Star, and is used with permission. Anitas site is not available at the moment, I have left her a message on MySpace, so hopefully can update soon.(03.Jan 08)
Fonts of choice, one of mine is Bambino. The other is a payfont
Text brushes, grunge/texture brushes
You should have some working knowledge of PSP.

Open your tube and duplicate it. Resize the canvas so it's about twice the width of your tube and a little wider. Use your shape tool to draw a rectangle. The border width is 4. I placed mine so the cut off parts of her body are within my rectangle. Send the rectangle to the bottom. Add a dropshadow to your tube. Choose one the falls to torwards the middle and up. Mine is V Minus3, H Minus3, Opacity 45, Blur 7.92.

Make the the bottom layer active and add a new raster layer. Use your selection tool to draw a rectangle in the upper third of the rectangle. Load your brushes and add some brushes in a dark colour, they can overlap and shouldn't be legible. They will just appear within your selection. Add a second selection in the bottom third. Fill with brushes but leave the whole thing lighter.

Select your text tool, looks for a nice font and add your quote (or mine), create as vector so you can move and size it. I actually wrote every line seperately and also use different fonts for the first and last word. Place the first word into the top third and add a dropshadow see screenshot, I used it twice. Add the other words to the middle band. I also added the dropshadow once to my last word.

Merge all visible. Add credits to the artist and yourself. Merge visible and save in case you'd like to keep a template. Add your name now. I used the same font as for Solitude, and added a dropshadow of V 0, H 0, Opacity 61, Blur 5, white. Crop merged opaque and save as a jpg.

This tutorial was created August 27, 2006 and is the sole property of ooh...babelicious. Similarity to other tutorials is purely coincidental. Do not copy this or any of my tutorials, or any part of my tutorials, to another site unless you have express permission from me to do so. If you want to share, send the URL, do not direct link or offer on your site. Give credit where credit is due. Do not script this tutorial and offer to others.