What you need:
PSP. Download a 30
day trial here.
Materials: Download here.
Open all images from the ZIP in PSP.
Save the mask 'Cat-Sphinx.msk' in your PSP mask folder.
The Ormente filter: Download here.
Create a folder Ormente in your plugins
folder in PSP and extract all 3 Zip's in it.
Close and restart PSP otherwise your filter won't work.
Open the font and minimize.
You'll see it in your text tool now.
Save often.
Let's go. Good luck.....
Open a new image 400 X 400 > Transparent.
Foreground to #704f60.
Background to #bf88a5.
Foreground to gradient.
Look for the "Fore-back" gradient.
Texture unchecked (blue hand).
Fill the image with the gradient.
Effects > Texture effects > Blinds > Color black.
Layers > New raster layer.
Now change the gradient settings like this:
Fill the layer with the gradient.
Effects > Plugins > Ormente's Filters > Miropads.
Layers > Mask load/save > Load mask from disk.
Look for the Cat-Sphinx mask and apply.
Layers > Merge all layers flatten.
Add borders > 5 Pixels > Symmetric > Color red.
Select the red border.
Fill the selection with: #bf88a5.
Effects > 3D-effects > Inner bevel > Color white.
Add borders > 15 Pixels > Symmetric > Color red.
Select the red border.
Fill the selection with the gradient you used last..
Select the red border.
Fill the selection with: #bf88a5.
Effects > 3D-effects > Inner bevel > Settings like before.
Selections > None.
If all went well you must have this:
Open the MD-Sphinx-Eye.psp from the ZIP and copy.
Edit > Paste > Paste as a new layer.
Move the eye like on the screenshot below.
Put the mode for this layer to Luminance and the opacity to 60.
Open the MD-Sphinx-make-up.psp from the ZIP and copy.
Edit > Paste > Paste as a new layer.
Move the make-up like on the screenshot below.
Put the mode for this layer to Luminance and the opacity to 80.
Open the MD-Sphinx-make-up2.psp from the ZIP and copy.
Edit > Paste > Paste as a new layer.
Move the make-up like on the screenshot below.
Put the mode for this layer to Luminance and the opacity to 80.
If necessary move the eye a little to the left.
Open the MD-Sphinx-perfume.psp from the ZIP and copy.
Edit > Paste > Paste as a new layer.
Move the perfume like on the screenshot below.
Put the mode for this layer to Luminance but keep the opacity at 100.
Open the MD-Sphinx-perfume2.psp from the ZIP and copy.
Edit > Paste > Paste as a new layer.
Move the perfume like on the screenshot below.
Put the mode for this layer to Luminance but keep the opacity at 100.
Edit > Merge > Merge visible layers.
Set your foreground and your background color to #c7abbb.
Click
and look for the opened Carpenter Script. It's in the ZIP.
Size 30 > Stroke 1,0 >
B for Bold > Anti-alias checked.
Type the word 'Sphinx'.
In your Layer Palette
> Convert to raster (PSP 7, 8,
9 & 10).
Image > Rotate > Free rotate > 90 Degrees to the left.
All layers unchecked!
Move the text like on the screenshot below.
Layers > Duplicate.
Image > Mirror.
Image > Flip.
Move the text like on the screenshot below.
Set your foreground and your background color to #34252d.
Again click the text tool
.
Size 34 > Stroke 2,0 >
B for Bold > Anti-alias checked.
Again type Sphinx.
In your Layer Palette >
Convert to
raster.
Effects > 3D-effects > Drop shadow > Black.
Again click the text tool
.
Size 28 > Stroke 1,0 >
B for Bold > Anti-alias checked.
Now type 'The Sense' (notice.... T and S capitals).
In your Layer Palette >
Convert to raster.
Effects > 3D-effects > Drop shadow > Settings like before.
Now type 'of Beauty' ..... notice.... only the B as capital).
In your Layer Palette >
Convert to
raster.
Effects > 3D-effects > Drop shadow > Settings like before.
Move all 3 text lines like on the screenshot below.
Layers > Merge > Merge visible layers.
Your Sphinx Tag is done.
I hope you like this tutorial.
Thank you for trying them out.
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Translation
into English by my best friends, Trudie.
Thanks sweetie! Couldn't do it without you.
the red border.
the eye like on the screenshot below.
and look for the opened Carpenter Script. It's in the ZIP.
