Simple Christms Name

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 4th December 2014
written in psp9 but any version should work
Any resemblance to any other works is purely coincidental and unintentional



Supplies needed

A pretty Christmas element of your choice

A nice font - I used Andes in the 1st example

and Cartographer in the 2nd example

Filters used - Eye Candy 5 - Glass

Eye Candy 4 - Gradient Glow

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OK lets begin!

Open blank canvas 800 x 800

copy and paste element as new layer

resize if necessary

duplicate element several times

hide the bottom one

and position the rest  on top of each other like so

Merge visible

Now add your name

Use a colour that compliments your element

make sure it is a vector so you can drag it out

using the nodes around the bounding box

so you will go from this 

to this 

convert to raster layer.

Select all, float, defloat, invert

make element layer active and hit delete

select none.

Drag your name below the element layer

merge down

At this point I used Eye Candy 5 - glass with the following settings

But if you dont have this filter you could use a nice inner bevel

I then added a white gradient glow using Eye Candy 4

If you dont have this filter 

select all, float, defloat, expand by 3

new raster layer, floodfill white

deselect

drag white layer below name, merge the two layers together

drop shadow 2,5,50,8 black

Unhide your original element layer

position above your name where you think it looks nicest

add same dropshadow we just used 

merge visible

crop and save as png.

Thats it your done!!