Home What Are Banners ?? Blank Banners 400 x 40 Blank Banners 468 x 60 Examples Tutorials Banner Companies FAQ Links How To Link To Us Other AAA sites AAA - Backgrounds AAA - Buttons Clip Art Warehouse Neon City		Back to the main tutorials page Cut Out's This effect makes your words look as though they are cut into your banner. First of all open your blank banner (a dark plain colour is best). Increase the colour depth to 16 million colours. Select white as the foreground colour and select a font and type size. Type your text and apply to the banner, but DON'T right click to set the type in position. Next select "Image" then "Special Effects" then "Cutout". The "Fill Interior" box should be ticked, set the opacity to 255, blur to 2, Interior Colour should be set to "Foreground Colour", Shadow Colour to Black and horizontal and vertical offset to 2. When you're happy with the effect click okay and right click on the text to set it into position. Finally decrease the colour depth to 256 colours. Three Layers This effect makes text look a bit more impressive, open your blank banner and increase the colours to 16 million. Choose a font and a size for the font. Select black as your foreground colour and apply and centre your text, DON'T right click to set it into position. Choose "Image", "Special Effects" then "Add Drop Shadow". Set the options to opacity - 180, colour - black, blur - 8, horizontal offset - 1, vertical offset - 4. Select "Okay" and when you're happy paste the text into position with your right mouse button. It should look like this. Finally, add the text in the colour you want on top, the black text should be very slightly showing to the right and bottom of the text you're now applying. Back to the main tutorials page
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