Cut Glass Background Supplies need Tube

Cut Glass Background

Supplies need
Tube (here)
Plugin - Crescent Moon (here)

Open your tube in PSP. Duplicate. Close the original.
Resize the tube to no wider than 350 pixels.

Pick a dark color from your tube for the foreground
Pick a light color for the background.

In the Foreground, find the gradient
Foreground/background. Use these settings.

Image - canvas size-
1024 X the height of your tube plus 20

Layer - New Raster Layer
Layer - Arrange - Send to bottom
Flood fill the image with your background color.

Layer - New Raster Layer
Flood fill this layer with your gradient.

Effects - Plugins - Crescent Moon - Cut glass
with these settings.

You may need to lower the opacity on this layer
for easier reading - especially if you have used
a dark color.

In your layer palette, highlight your tube layer
(the top layer)
Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel
Use these settings.

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
with these settings.
V & H = 1
Opacity = 100
Blur = 10.00
Color = black

Layer - New Raster Layer
Add your mark.

Layers - Merge - Merge All Flatten

Export with the JPEG Optimizer and save.

Create Your IncrediLetter.

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I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Any resemblance to another tutorial is
purely coincidental. It is a result of my own playing in PSP 8.