PSP X-- Racing Number Tag

Racing Number Tag

I wrote this tutorial on my own. Any similarity to another tutorial is purely coincidental. I claim the copyright to my tutorial. You are free to do whatever you please with what you make, but please do not take my tutorial. Do not send the tutorial through email. Only share my link.

This tutorial was created for some friends of mine who wanted to begin learning more about PSP. It is intended for beginners to learn how to use selections to make glass/globe effects. If you have any questions, please feel free to Email me.

To do this tutorial you will also need Paint Shop Pro. I wrote this with Paint Shop Pro X, but the steps may also be done in any version. You may download a free trial at Corel.

Remember to save as a psp file often!

Download Supplies:

Racing Fonts

Dale Earnhardt Tubes Tony Stewart Tubes Jeff Gordon Tubes

1. Open a new, transparent image, size = 400 x 300

2. Choose the Selection tool, set to Rectangle. Draw a Rectangle in the bottom half of the image. Flood-fill with white.

3. Effects > Plugins > Mura's Seamless > Checks Apply these settings: Color R = 0, Color G = 0, Color B = 0, Effect = 255, Ratio = 194, Number = 2, Slant = 120, Offset, Gingham = 0

4. Effects > Geometric > Perspective-Vertical. Apply these settings: Distortion = - 60, Edge Mode = Transparent

5. Choose the Pick tool. You will find this with the mover tool.

6. the Pick tool puts a vector box around the image. Drag the top center node down to the bottom half of the image. Change back to the mover tool.

7. Choose the font tool, one of the racing fonts, Size = 300 pixels, Create as a Vector, Stroke = 4. Set the foreground color to a racing color of your choice, background to another racing color. Type your racer's number.

8. Right-click on the number layer and choose Convert to Raster Layer.

9. With the magic wand, select the inside of the number.

10. Open up a picture of your driver. You can use Google to find an image that you can use. Edit > Copy. Click back on the number image. Edit > Paste into Selection

11. Layers > New Raster Layer.

12. Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout. Apply these settings: Vertical & Horizontal = 5, Opacity = 50, Blur = 15.

13. Selection > None

14. Open up some of the other tubes for your driver. Edit > Copy, Edit > Paste as new layer, and use those tubes to decorate your tag. You may have to resize them: Image > Resize (Resize All layers UNCHECKED).