2. Fill the first Layer in with Black
3. Using the type tool type your name in white text.
4. When you have selected the text tool you can change the color by selecting the color box in the text window .
5. Whenever you place your type it places it upon it's own layer
6. At this point you must render your text go to Layer-Render Type. this renders it as its own moveable layer.
7. Select all the text by holding down the ctrl key and clicking on the text layer.
8. Once you have made your selection save it as text one you will need it later.
GO AHEAD TAKE A BREAK OK BACK TO WORK
9. At this point you will need to
flatten you image. To do this click on the small arrow in the layer palette
and click on the flatten option~this will combine these 2 layers into one.
10. Now use the guassian blur filter to blur you image try it and you pick
what you like best but I will tell you that 2.0 or 3.0 looks good. Also
play around with a few of the distort filters.
10. After you have played deselect your
selection CTRL~D
11. Rotate your image [Image rotate canvas90 ccw]
12. Adding height to your letters. From the filter menu select stylize wind- wind from left.
13. Rotate your text to it's original
position
14. Apply the ripple option from the DISTORT menu.
NOW LETS GIVE COLOR
15. Now select from the image menu MODE-GREY SCALE then mode indexed then mode color table~ select black body from the table.
16. Then change your mode back to RGB.
WOW! THAT'S COOL!
17. SELECT-LOAD SELECTION-text outline
18. Load the text selection. At this point the image is almost finished, play with the text by using filters. EXPERIMENT.
NOW HOW WOULD
IT LOOK WITH FLAMES ALL AROUND! CAN YOU DO IT!
