COLOUR POP

This tag tutorial was written by me Diane Knight on 18th November 2009 any resemblance to any other tut is purely coincidental

For this tut I am using the fantastic FREE stock image from Morgue file HERE

fr this tut , everything is free so no scraps or ptu artists , you will not even need any plugins, just a version of PSP, i am using PSP9

Font used was toonish get it free HERE

open up an image of choice, then resize if needed using smart size...

i resized mine so that the width is 500 pixels

now duplicate your image , then greyscale your bottom image by going to

adjust hue and saturation and set both the sliders to '0'

then click on the top layer to activate this layer

use the Freehand or Lasso tool on this top layer to get rid of everything you dont want coloured.

settings:
Selection type = Point to Point
way to select)
Feather = 0
Antialias = unchecked
Sample merged = unchecked

see below

Click at the start of your selection, and just click around your selection.

Close your selection with a double-click

Now that we have selected the area you want to leave coloured, get rid of everything around it, to let the grey of the layer below shine through. In order to do that, invert the selection:
by Going to Selections - Invert.

hit the Delete key to remove
then deselect by going to Selections - Select None

voila your image now has a colour pop!

to finish off the tag i did the following

add a new raster layer

now click on your selections tool
using these settings, colour background white foreground null,

draw out a rectangle selection, along the entire bottom part of the tag, then set your properties to soft light,

by going to Layers - properties, and change the drop down menu from normal to soft light.

then we are going to add a texture to this selection
by going to effects - 3d effects - using the following settings.

add a new raster layer, floodfill with orange,

select all - selections modify - contract by 3

add drop shadow I used the following settings

now add your name, i used the Toonish font on these settings

kerning set to 25 and anti alias set to sharp.
setting the anti alias to sharp gives you a nice clear sharp text...
convert to layer to raster then add the same drop shadow as before.

Feel free to show off your results by emailing them to me or coming along to my forum HERE