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This tutorial requires the use of the filter "Pool Shadow," available in Filter Factory Gallery A at PC Resources for Photoshop.
1. Set your background color to Red 192, Green 192, Blue 192 (light gray).
2. Go to File-New. SETTINGS: Width: 500; Height: 200; Background color: Background color; Image type: 16.7 million colors (24-bit). (The size can be whatever you want, of course; make the width at least 20% higher than you want it to be in your final image.)
3. Go to Image-Special Filters-Add Noise. SETTINGS: "Random" selected;
% noise: 100.
4. Go to Image-Deformations-Wind. SETTINGS: "From left" selected;
Strength: 20
5. Go to Colors-Colorize. SETTINGS: Hue: ANY; Saturation: 0
(note: I forgot to do step 5, hence the red streak in the example images. lbc)
6. Select right-hand part of image, to the right of the light-colored
streaks on the left. Go to Image-Crop.
7. Go to Image-Plugin Filters-Filter Factory Gallery A-Pool Shadow
SETTINGS: Controls 1,2,3, and 5 to 0; Controls 4 and 6 to 28; Shadow
intensity to 40
8. Go to Window-Duplicate (the duplicate will be used to fill text with a
pattern).
9. In your original image, add your text. The font should be a large one.
The foreground color doesn't matter. Leave the text selected through step 14.
10. Click the "Fill" button. From the drop-down menu, select "Pattern."
Click "Options." From the drop-down menu, select the name of your duplicate
image.
11. Click on your text to fill it with the pattern.
12. Go to Image-Special Effects-Cutout. SETTINGS: Fill interior with
color unchecked; Interior color: Black; Shadow color: White; Opacity: 255;
Blur: 0; Offset: Vertical -1, Horizontal -1.
13. Go to Image-Special Effects->Cutout. SETTINGS: Fill interior with
color unchecked; Interior color: White; Shadow color: Black; Opacity: 255;
Blur: 0; Offset: Vertical 1, Horizontal 1.
14. Go to Image-Special Effects-Drop Shadow. SETTINGS: Color: Black;
Opacity: 255; Blur: 0; Offset: Vertical 2, Horizontal 2
Steps 15-28 (adding rivets) are optional.
15. Go to File-New. SETTINGS: Width: 25; Height: 25; Background color:
white; Image type: 16.7 million colors (24-bit).
16. Draw a circle on the new image. Make it a little smaller than the image
itself (about 14x14 pixels).
17. Click the "Fill" button. From the drop-down menu, select "Pattern."
Click "Options." From the drop-down menu, select the name of the duplicate
image you made in step 8.
18. Click inside the circle to fill it with the pattern.
19. Go to Image-Special Filters-Emboss.
20. Go to Selections-Select All.
21. Go to Image-Rotate. SETTINGS: Direction: Right; Degrees: 90.
22. Click on the Magic Wand. Select the image background.
23. Go to Selections-Invert.
24. Go to Edit-Copy.
25. Click on your original image to make it the active window.
26. Go to Edit-Paste-As New Selection.
27. Place the selection in the corner of your image.
28. Do this four times, once for each corner.
29. Save as a .JPG file (you can also save as a grayscale GIF, but the file will be much larger).
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