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Here we go gang, the last bit. We're going to select all of the flat interior design elements and paste them into PhotoPaint as one object, then add a drop shadow via Shadowlab. Remember when I said to make a note of your shadow color back when we applied the cutout to the background? This is when you'll need it.
I've also pasted in the center of the oval and aplied the same Cutout filter to at as I did on the blasted background.
On to the text. We'll paste in our primary (Meadow Wood) and secondary (Estates) text as seperate objects. The primary text will be a prismatic aplique, while the secondary will be incised and Gold leafed.
Let's tackle the prismatics first. We're going to use the Eye Candy Bevel Boss filter for this. This filter works something like the chrome filter we used for the bevel, only it uses the objects original fill. Lets take a look.
You'll notice that I used dark and light shades of the original color for the lhighlight and shadow, this keeps the colors from becoming muddy. The B.B. filter can do some srange things to color, so you may need to play with your adjustment sliders to get what you like, I've also added a faint drop shadow with Shadow Lab.
On to the incised text. Select the object and apply a Chrome filter. We're going to use the same settings that we used for our bevel, with one exception. We want to change the profile in the Bevel Profile tab(this works like editing bezier curves in your graphics software) to look like this:
Almost done! I want to say a quick word about the Chrome filter. This filter uses tiny bitmaps called reflection maps to generate it's effects. I'm using a reflection map called Roadside2, which is a color adjusted version of Eye Candy's Roadside reflection map. It looks like this:
These little fellows are buried deep in the Windows program directory along with Eye Candy's other data. They can be found by doing a search for "reflection". You can put any bitmaps that you want in here for an infinite variety of effects.
Ok, time for the finishing touches. At this point I thought the secondary copy needed an outline, so I generated one in Draw, Copied it to Photopaint, and used the Objects docker to arange its location and place it behind the incised copy that we just made.
I didn't do anything fancy with the tree, "cuz that aint the tree we're usin'" (to quote the client )aside from a quick drop shadow.
The whole drawing looked a little dark to me, so I selected all of the objects and gave my Brightness and Contrast sliders a bump in the right direction.
There she is. Questions, comments, donations?
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Hey Terry , You're welcome. Insomnia + No Cable = great motivator! I just hope they don't get shuffled off of the page before the folks who wanted to see them get to read them!
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Jonathan, you are very generous with your time and acquired skills! Thank you.
I have learned a great deal with your tutorial here, and in your original post to the portfolio table.
My presentations to potential clients have been mainly digital pics of the future sign location and a “flat” representation of the proposed sign design superimposed over it… This would clearly be a positive reinforcement of the look of the finished product.
Plus its just got an incredibly polished professional look!!!
Thank you again, Joe
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This is great! I still haven't had a chance to go through it but I printed it all out in color so I could do it later before it's lost in the shuffle. You should ask Steve to put it in the Tips & Tricks archive.
Thanks again!
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Don't worry Amy. We won't let this one get away. I'm already working on Jonathan's wonderful step by step. We're hoping to add a photo and profile all about Jonathon to add to the step by step, before adding it to the Letterville Step By Step Archive at http://www.letterhead.com/steps/index.html
Stay tuned.
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