SemiPro Tutorials

Credits:

I can’t really claim this at my own tutorial. I got it from Empire Dezign, and am converting it from Photoshop to Paint Shop Pro. All credits to go Empire Dezign!

Required Files:

.1 Wood Texture
.2 Custom Gradient

Step 1

Make a 500×300 document and insert your wood texture. Resize it to your liking.

Step 2

Add some text with the font “Times New Romans”. For the color, us the metal gradient (you can download it above). Save the selection to the alpha channel!

Step 3

Add a drop shadow (Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow) and use these settings:

Click OK. Deselect and make two new raster layers. You can name them if you want, InnerGlow 1 and InnerGlow 2.

Step 4

On InnerGlow 1, load the selection from the alpha channel and invert the selection (CTRL+SHIFT + I). Add another drop shadow and use these settings:

Put the blending mode on Overlay and the Opacity to 80% (or around that number).

Step 5

Now go to InnerGlow 2 layer and load up your selection from the alpha channel. Invert the selection and add another drop shadow and use the following settings:

You should have this now:

Step 6

Now let’s fix that background. Make a new layer and move it right above the wood texture layer. Fill it in with the black-white gradient and the following settings:

Set the blending mode to Multiply and lower the Opacity to 80%. This should make a nice background for the text.

Step 7

Make another new layer above the black-white and make a selection like the following and fill it in with black:

Blur it by 4 pixels (Gaussian blur) and then copy it under all the letters to make nice shadows.

Conclusion

That rounds up this tutorial! I hope you liked it. Here I add a slogan in much smaller text, and it still looks good!