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My Top Border Stretched Scrolling Text
Whew what a mouthful!
Goal shown at
smaller size:
Hooty-Tut© aka Doyle Allen 3/25/2003
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Needed:
PaintShopPro and the graphic
Hooty-Tip!:
Did you know that Hooty-Tuts are
made to be used as a split-screen?!
That’s
why
they are made narrow!
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I would say the
skill level
for this tutorial is
advanced intermediate!
This tut combines several techniques to make
one finished result and is quite extensive.
We will basically be doing a
Top Border,
Stretched Background,
Scrolling Text and
making a bubble
face on the graphic such as you
see in globes.
Not
trying to
scare
you, just saying it is a lot if
you are not used to most of these separate things!
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Use the graphic below by
right clicking on it and
save it to your document
files.
1.Open up the graphic in
PaintShopPro
2.Duplicate the graphic twice
and close out the
original graphic.
3.Minimize one of the
duplicates. (We’ll get back
to it later.)
4.Eyedropper 
right
click on the black part
of the graphic to set the
background color.
5.Image/Canvas size
Settings shown:
Width 1024 Height 241 Right 843
6.Duplicate the layer by
right clicking on the
Background layer
on your layer palette and
selecting layer.
7.Double click on
Copy of Background and
rename it Stretched
Background if you want.
8.Selection Tool 
: Rectangle shape chosen.
Draw the shape enclosing most of the image as
is shown below. Be sure that you start all the
way at the top and end all the way past the
bottom.
9.Left click inside the box
of the marching ants
10.
Deformation
Tool
11.Left click and drag the
right middle node all
the way past the end as shown
below:
12.Ctrl + D (to deselect)
13.Image/Canvas size
Width1024 Height 768 Bottom 527
14.Selection
Tool: draw a selection below the
blue area to use as your
divider bar.
It should probably
be about
20-30
pixels in
height and all the way across
from end to end.
15.With your eyedropper left
click on the
dark blue color to set the
foreground color and
for your border color.
(Light blue would probably be a
good color for
your font when you are done!)
16.
Flood
Tool: left click in the selection
rectangle to fill it with the
blue color.
17.Effects/Texture/Weave
Settings: 5 5 100, fill gaps checked
18.Effects/Geometric/Wave
Settings:
Horizontal Amp=100 Wavelength=11
19.Effects/3D effects/ Inner
Bevel
Settings: Pillow, width=10, Sm=0 Depth=20 Amb=0 Shin=0 Angel=315 Inten=50 Ele=30
20.Ctrl + D
21.Layers/Merge All (flatten)
22.Minimize your background
to get it out of the
way and open the other
graphic!
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Part 2!
Take a break and we’ll begin again!
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With your new graphic opened
we are going to
try to get a bubble face
effect going on with it!
1.Image/Canvas Size
Settings:
New width
231 height 291
2.Selection
Tool: Set the shape to
Ellipse
Watch the numbers on the
bottom left of your
PSP screen as you
click and drag your cursor
from position 115x145 to
221x271, and then
release your mouse button.
3.Selections/Modify/Contract
= 15
4.Selections/Modify/Feather = 20
5.Ctrl + C (to copy)
6.Ctrl + V (Paste as new
image)
7.Close out the other image
that you copied.
8.Set your Background color to null!
9.
Shapes
Tool: Select the ellipse
shape
Settings:
line width 5
10.Draw an oval shape around your graphic.
Look at the goal at the top of this page for a
reference.
Basically you are circling the main
portion of your graphic in an ellipse shape.
On your own graphics this is what you will
aim for.
11.Layers/Convert to Raster
Layer
12.Click on the glasses on
the layer palette on
layer 1 to deactivate it so
only the circle is seen.
Be sure your layer 2 with the circle is active.
13.Magic Wand
Settings: RGB 0 0 sample
merged unchecked.
14.Left click in the middle of the circle
15.Layers/New Raster Layer
16.Selections/Modify/Expand
=2
17.Effects/3D
effects/Cutout
Settings: Vertical=15, Horizontal=15
Opacity=16, Blur=36, colour=black ,
Fill unchecked
18.Effects/3D
effects/DropShadow
Settings: ver=5 hor=5
opac=65 blur=7.4
Color=Black
19.Effects/3D
effects/DropShadow
Same as before but
MINUS-5 on the ver & hor!
20.Layers/New Raster Layer
21.Effects/3D
effects/Cutout
Settings:Vertical=Minus15, Horizontal=Minus15
Opacity=40, Blur=43, colour=black ,
Fill unchecked
22.Effects/3D
effects/DropShadow
Settings: ver=5 hor=5
opac=65 blur=7.4
Color=Black
23.Effects/3D
effects/DropShadow
Same as before but
MINUS-5 on the ver & hor!
24.Layer/New Raster Layer
25.Make the foreground color white and the style solid fill.
26.Make the background style null.
27.
Draw
Tool
Settings:
Line
style-Solid, Type=freehand line, Width=7,
Antialias checked, create as a vector unchecked
Close path unchecked
28.Draw a curved line around the top left and a
smaller curved line at the bottom left and a little
line about
You don't need to be accurate with this!
We
are going to blur it.
29.Effects/Blur/Gaussian Blur at 4.0
30.Activate all the layers (no glasses
should
have an X
on
them in your layers palette ) Click on the glasses with the x to remove the x’s.
31.Layers/Merge Visible!
(This way it preserves the transparent area!)
32.Ctrl + C (copy)
33.Minimize and open up the
big background.
34.Ctrl + L (paste as new layer)
35.
Mover
Tool
36.Click on the bubble image
and move it into
place in the upper left blue
section just a bit over
the top of the border.
37.Layers/Merge all Layers
(flatten)
38.Save as a JPEG
at 15% opacity
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You are ready to
put it into
Letter
Creator
on the Body page, image Left Upper,
Margins :Top 280 Left 10 Right 10
Font: I used Pristina at 14 points.
Finish Page to save it!
And you will have a scrolling text that looks
cool!
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Whew! It almost took that long
just to say the title didn’t it!
LOL
Hope you learned this
technique alright. As most
things are, the more times
you do it .. the more
familiar you become with it… the easier it becomes to do.
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The testers are always a vital part of the end results of what you end up using.
Special thanks to all the testers: Evelyn ,
Pam, Kynda, Mary, Samantha, Paula, Denise, Lei & Patty!
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