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Signature and Transparent Images

Important: I do not know the author of the image above - the
signature that is visible was put there barely
with the intention to illustrate this tutorial

 

You will need Paint Shop Pro7 on your machine.

Follow the steps:

1
Your signature will be ready after a few little clicks. Open a New Image, transparent, with sufficient space to shelter your signature. Usually I open a 400x400 canvas - well big even (laughters)

2
In your Color Palette leave 'foreground' closed and 'background' with 'White' color.

3
With the Text tool, click the center of the transparent canvas - in the "Text entry" window define the Font you are going to use, and/or the Font-symbol of your preference. Check the options "Selection" and "Antialias", and press OK to accept.

4
Your text or symbol is now available in the transparent image, with the appearance of a 'selection', barely. With the text still selected apply a Cutout effect (80/6/2/2/color white), and then a Drop Shadow (40/2/2/2/ color black). You can decide of what appearance will have that image, which will be its shadow color, and the amount of its transparency, modifying and experiencing other parameters for those actions - if you want more or less transparency, increase or decrease the attribute "Opacity", for example.

5
Save the work, just like it is, in PSP native format, if you intend reuse it again. Open the image over where you are going to apply the signature - returns to the text screen you became to prepare and, in layer palette, maintain pressed the left mouse button over the text layer and drags it to the center of the opened image you intend to apply the 'signature-text'. A copy of the text will immediately appears on that screen, being able to be positioned where you want to. Duplicating its layer, many times you want, will press a more definition to that signature. But remember that more duplicates you have, more opaque will be the text.

6
And there is: a transparent signature! If you want use a symbol, with a text inside, do this work in two steps: first producing the symbol and applying it over the image; in succession, creating a new layer over the image and dragging over it the text, adjusting it inside or beside the symbol, as you want.
Or vice versa : -))
See bellow a small example of this work transparency:

7
Creates and recreates - you now have everything you need to be "inventive".

Hands in work and...

Enjoy it!

Guacira Sampaio Rocha
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