Satin Text
I learned how to do this in a 5th Power tutorial. This is what I did to make this button
I Open a new image
Go to [File] > [New]
On the New Image Window:
Width = 600 Pixels
Height = 200 Pixels
Resolution = 72 Pixels/Inch
Background Color = White
Image Type = 16.7 Million Colors(24 Bit)
Click OK
II Make a Working Copy of the Text
Click on the Foreground Color Box {top box on the right}
Choose Black as the foreground color
Click the Text Tool
Click at 290,95
Comic Sans MS Font
Style Bold
Size 120
Anti-alias Checked
Center Checked
Floating Checked
Enter "EAGLE" or some other 5 letter word
[Selections]>[Select None]
[Images]>[Blur]>[Gaussian Blur]
Radius = 6
Your image should look very fuzzy at this point.
III Open a new image
Go to [File] > [New]
On the New Image Window:
Width = 600 Pixels
Height = 200 Pixels
Resolution = 72 Pixels/Inch
Background Color = White
Image Type = 16.7 Million Colors(24 Bit)
Click OK
IV Make a Working Copy of the Text
Click on the Foreground Color Box {top box on the right}
Choose Black as the foreground color
Click the Text Tool
Click at 310,105
Comic Sans MS Font
Style Bold
Size 120
Anti-alias Checked
Center Checked
Floating Checked
Enter "EAGLE" or whatever word you used
[Selections]>[Select None]
[Images]>[Blur]>[Gaussian Blur]
Radius = 6
V Use Arithmetic to Difference the Two Images
[Image]>[Arithmetic]
[Function] Difference
[Channels] All Channels Checked
[Modifiers]
Divisor = 1
Bias = 0
Clip Color Values Checked
Click OK
Text now has wierd lines in it
VI Adjust Image
[Colors]>[Negative Image]
[Colors]>[Histogram Functions]>[Equalize]
[Image]>[Noise]>[Despeckle]
Repeat Despeckle two times
VII Edit Out the Text and Colorize
Click the Text Tool
Click at 305,105
Comic Sans MS Font
Style Bold
Size 120
Anti-alias Checked
Center Checked
Floating Not Checked
Enter "EAGLE"
Click on the Background Color Box {bottom box on the right}
Choose White as the background color
[Selections]>[Invert]
Press the Delete Key
[Selections]>[Invert]
[Colors]>[Colorize] to Taste
Hue-125 Saturation 150 gave these results
VIII Save The Image as a Transparent Gif
[Edit] > [Copy] {crtl-c}
[Edit] > [Paste] > [As New Image] {crtl-v}
On the Layers Dialog Box
Right Click Layer1
Click New
Click OK
Click on the Background Color Box {bottom box on the right}
Choose the Background color of the Web page the image will be on.
Click on the Flood Fill Tool
Right Click to Paint with the Background Color
Note: If you have a textured backgound
pick a median color out of the texture.
[Layers] > [Arrange] > [Move Down] or
On the Layers Dialog Box
Click and Drag Layer1 to the top of the list
IX [Colors] > [Decrease Color Depth] to 256 colors
[Colors] > [Set Palette Transparency]
Set palette transparency to background color
[File] > [Save] as gif
Then I played with resize and deformation.
Recolorized purple and solarized
Threshold=51 and resized
