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Tip: Creating Hollywood style headlines with a graphics program, will surely catch your visitors eye more often than a boring textual heading.
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Shop Pro Tutorials
How
to make HEADLINE TEXT
Here
is a great psp tutorial that you can use to give website text a Hollywood style
headline look and the best thing is, it makes the text you want noticed really
stand out and catch the visitors eye.
STEP
1
Open a New Image and give yourself ample canvas room for the project.
For this tutorial use 400x300
White Background
16 Million Colors STEP
2
Add some text. A
fairly straight font such as Times New Roman will work best.
Color = Dark
Blue. Floating and Antialias = Checked.
STEP
3
Rotate your text 90 degrees to the right and move the text over to the
right hand edge.
Image || Rotate || 90 Degrees || Right
Deselect
the text.
Selections || Select None
STEP
4
Go
to
Effects || Geometric Effects || Wind
Make the Strength
20.
Check "From Right"
Your text will blur and streak.
STEP
5
Make
the Color Palette Foreground Color White. Go
to
Effects || Artistic Effects || Hot Wax Coating. Apply
the Hot Wax Coating Twice.
Hit your Keyboards Shift + H
Lighten the background color by setting
Hue = 0
Saturation = 0
and Lightness = 10
STEP
6 Rotate
your image 90 degrees back to the left to straighten up the text to vertical once
more.
Image || Rotate || 90 Degrees || Left
STEP
7
Add your text again over the top of the image.
Experiment with the color
of the text to suit your taste.
STEP
8
Click
on the Selection Tool 
and set it to Rectangle.
Make a rectangular selection just below the
new text and drag it out so that all the image below the text is selected
STEP
9
Set
the Background Color to White.
Click on
Effects || Geometric
Effects || Perspective - Vertical
Set % Difference = 100 STEP
10
Crop
 your image to size
and Save As.
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