This tutorial requires you to make a User Defined filter with these settings:

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Div=9 Bias=0

Start with a new image, black bground, white foreground. 16 Million colors.

Add text (any message). Use a clear, legible font if possible. The edges will be distorted and you don't want the text to smush. Leave the text selected.

Add Drop Shadow (Image/Special/DropShadow) with these settings: Color=Green, Red, or Blue (or change your BG or ForeG color and select that, but start with White over Black)

• Opacity=255
• Blur=1
• Vertical=5
• Horizontal=0 (adjust these two to your taste)

Invert selection (Selection/Invert)
Apply same drop shadow, (then change your colors back to White over Black, if necessary)

Invert selection again Apply the User Defined filter described above Invert Selection again

Apply User Defined Filter again

Hot Wax coating (Image/Special/HotWax) (make sure your colors are still White over Black!) Invert Selection again (#4, for the counters out there)

Hot Wax again

Sharpen More (Image/Normal/SharpenMore) ** twice ** Invert Selection Sharpen More twice

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