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A "Basic Award Plaque" Creation Tutorial
I created this tutorial for those might want to run an award program from their
websites and to provide some basic ideas for creating an award plaque to
distribute to winners of your program. this came from a number of request ot
make a tutorial on how to use PSP to make blank award tags or plaques. This tutorial was created on
February 3, 2006. If it bears any resemblance to another tutorial on the net, it is pure coincidence. The skills that you will learn here are your own, and I hope that you will find them useful. In this tutorial, I will assume that you have a basic working knowledge of PSP and it is made for
high beginners or intermediate skill levels. Remember to save your work often. You should have a better understanding of working with
tubes, gradients, shadows, color adjustments, and shadow effects after following this tutorial. Materials:
In this tutorial I wish only to convey an idea and allow you to create you own design using the basic idea I will present. You may follow this tutorial exactly as written or simply embellish and alter as you desire.
Open a new image 400 x 400 transparent or the size you desire for your award plaque. You can always resize this later to your liking but I prefer to work with a large space and shrink it later just to keep it easier to work on.
You an use a solid background or if you wish a gradient is also a nice effect. Examples of both are below. I used #b6a75a for the solid color plaque, and #c0a055 and #fdfc86 for the gradient pattern.
Your plaque should look like this or this...
Now let's add a border.
Image/Add Borders and use the settings as below - color white.
Using your magic wand with these settings select the white area of your border.
and your plaque should now look something like this.
Flood fill your border with a gold gradient or a color of your choosing.
Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel with these settings.
With border still selected - Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow with these settings.
Keep image selected and repeat, but change the vertical and horizontal to -2. You should now have this.
Save this as your blank. You can do many different things with it from this point forward an you can use this blank as your starting point.
Next we are going to add some embellishments and an area to put the winners site name on the plaque. I use graphics from a set of CD's I purchased commercially but you can find many in the public domain. Always remember to check copyright requirements for any graphics you use.
At this point I want to add some corner decorations so I found the graphic I wanted and opened it in PSP. Use shift D to duplicate the graphic and close the original.
As you add you embellishments, add each different graphic you use to a separate layer by right click on your layer palette and choosing "new raster layer. This makes removal and arrangement of graphics easier if you don't like something you've done as you are working.
Here's an example of what I did but use your imagination!
Now we need to add an area to put your text. Use your selection tool and choose the "rounded rectangle" and create an area to create a text input area. Again, do this on a separate layer. Fill the selection with similar color from your plaque.
Below is an example with a drop shadow added to make it stand out from the background.
Now you will want to create your various colored plaques if you are going to make a multi level program offering. Adjust/Color/Red/Green/Blue - you will need to experiment here but you can come up with many different colors here by playing with the sliders. Just experiment and remember to save your new blank plaque under a new name each time you get a color you want.
These settings gave me a "bronze" color.
I created 4 different colors for my plaque by playing with the sliders. Resize the plaques to your liking and your all set!
Tip: Remember to work on individual layers so that you can easily change graphics & text as needed. Export your finished graphics as a .gif or .jpg and your all set. Hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Back to Main Tutorial List © WM8C 2001-2006. This tutorial and the graphics on this page are copyright to WM8C, 2002 - 2006. Please do not remove this tutorial from my site. Feel free to share the url to this page.
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