lilbumblebee

Paint Shop Pro & Animation Designs

x .. Clone Tutorial .. x



You Will Need: Paint Shop Pro.. Thick Font.. Photographs - Usually Between Two & Four.


Step One: Open a new canvas (File - New) in Paint Shop Pro, 500x200.. Raster Background.. Transparent.. 16 Million Colours. Select your 'Text Tool' and choose the font, font size and font colour you would like to use. Stroke width should be 2.0. 'Selections - Select None'.

Step Two: Click on your 'Magic Wand' and select inside each of your letters. Click on 'Selections - Modify - Expand'. Number of pixels.. one. Go to your layers pallette and convert your top layer to a 'Raster Layer'. Click on you clone tool, ensure your settings for the clone tool are the same as mine:





Step Three: Make sure the photographs you are wanting to use are open in paint shop. Start with somethign like the eyes on the person to ensure you get the parts of the photo you would want in your text. Right click on the body part.. Left click on your text.. Hold down your left button as you fill in parts of your text. Also, make sure your 'Continuous' button is tiked at the top. Use the rest of your photos and fill the remainder of your text letters this way.

Step Four: You can leave them the colour they are or we will colourise them. Click 'Adjust - Hue & Saturation - Colourise'. The settings i use are shown below. 'Selections - Select None'.


Step Five: 'Ctrl + A' and 'Ctrl + F' to float your text. Then press 'Ctrl + Shift + F' to defloat your text. It should still be selected. Go to 'Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow'.



Step Six: 'Selections - Select None'. 'Layers - Merge - Merge Visable'. If it all looks good to you.. Save.




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