Creating a Banner
Last updated 09 Aug 2006
Preview
Preview of what the finished product will look like
Tutorial
Now for what you came for!
2. Paste the image into the new canvas. It should paste into the middle.
Move it to the left or right side.
3. Change the Opacity of the image to about 65%.
4. Find the "lighter" colour on the image. For the image I used, it was #6E982A - light green. Now, use that colour as the colour of your font. Paste the text you want (I use NeoExtreme - Simpson Font, 36PT).
5. Go to the "F" on your layers palette and go to Stroke.
6. Put the size as two and the colour as the "darker colour" on the image. It should go with the lighter colour you chose (meaning dark green and light green - not dark blue and light brown).
7. Go to the "F" again on your layers palette and go to "Drop Shadow". Change your settings to the following.
8. After you should have an image that looks like this.
9. Now for the second text part (curse of the muffins). Find
a nice gray colour. I used #454545. Use font Georgia
on size 18PT and change your "Font Character" settings to the following. In the second image (Font Character), everything in red is what you
need to change. The rest can stay as it is.
10. Type the text you want. Position it under your main text. Change the Opacity of your second font layer to "78%".
11. Go to Layer > Duplicate Layer.
12. Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Change the setting to "1.0". Click okay.
13. Now go Layer > Flatten Layers.
14. Crop the image and then you're done!
