Chipboard Letters in DIP 9, 10, 2006

Ó 2005 kimlizzy

Open a new canvas: File/New. Size to suit.

Add your text: Text/Insert Shaped Text

Colour to suit: Effects/Fill with Texture or Colour. Use the colour wheel to finetune your colour.

OR: Click on the Text Colour button on the toolbar.

Duplicate your text: Ctrl + d

On the Stack, click on the bottom layer to make it active.

Go to Effects/Edges/Highlighted/Thin Over/Customise the edge. Adjust colour so it’s a little darker than the original. Adjust edge width.

Add bevel if required. I used Eye Candy 4000 to add a low narrow bevel.

Click on the top layer to make it active.

Go to Effects/Filters/All Filters/Crisscross Dark Smudge and select the Pencil 4B brush with the following settings.

Click on Done until you return to the workspace.

Keeping the top layer selected go to:

Effects/Filters/All filters/Texturizer and select Rough Handmade

Go to Edit/Flatten all objects.

Save as png.

Alternate: After adding the highlighted edge to the bottom layer, add the Rough Handmade texture before bevelling. This gives the edges a slightly rougher look.

**I chose to bevel only the bottom layer so the top wouldn’t look "shiny and smooth" like the typical result of Eye Candy. If you want the shiny look wait until you have locked your layers together before bevelling.

*** If you require a larger highlighted edge but don’t want the letters joining up you can make them separately then drag them onto a new canvas and align.