Welcome to my very first attempt at writing a tutorial. You will need the heart selection I made for you which you can download here:
Heart Selection. If you would like to learn how to make your own heart then check out Purrcat's Vector Heart Tutorial. You will also need to download the gold_shiny preset for Blade Pro at Mardiweb.com. You can use a different preset of your choice on the heart but remember to bring the radius down to your liking to get a thinner edge or up to get a wider edge.
1. Open new image 400 x 400, transparent background.
2. Layers: New Rastor Layer: Heart
3. Go to Selections Load from Disk, open heart.sel and flood fill with white.
4. Go to Image-Plugin Filters-Blade Pro and use the gold_shiny preset with
the following settings making sure to change the radius to 5 or in the
alternative you can use a different preset of your choice on the heart but
remember to bring the radius down to your liking to get a thinner edge or up to
get a wider edge.:
5. Selections Select none.
6. Layers: New Rastor Layer: Chain
7. Using your paint brush with the following settings draw your chain:
8. Drag your chain layer below the heart layer so that now you should have a layer pallete that looks like this:
9. Making sure your Chain layer is active, Selections-Select all, then float.
10. Apply Blade Pro using the same settings as before. Deselect.
11. Make your Heart Layer active and make a new rastor layer and name it Text
12. Apply some text, I used Cotillion size 36/Bold settings, floating and
antillias checked.
13. Center your text where you want and while still selected, apply blade pro
same settings as before.
14. Deselect and apply a drop shadow: Black, Opacity:69, Blur:5, Vertical and
Horizontal Offsets at: 1. Repeat Drop Shadow except change the Vertical and
Horizontal offets to: -1
15. I recommend you crop the image down in size before you go any further. I
cut off roughly about 100 pixels in size. Now you can fill layer 1 with the
background of your choice. When you get your background to look the way you
would like merge all layers and save.
We are now done and I hope you liked this tutorial :).
