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I'm new to photoshop but I managed to make some simple banners. Please tell me what you think http://www.piltsthumbs.com/banners/banners.htm

The top 2 with pics distorted need to be reworked without disorting the pics(hold the shift key down when scaling them)

The Main Text on all of them could use a outline or stroke(1or2pixels) around them and use a drop shadow on it, like the second one. The "Hardcore Sluts" on the 3rd might look better staight across rather than skewed.

Overall, not to bad for your 1st try http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif Just need a little tweaking.

your first two thumbs are distorted. the aspect ratio is screwed up

wizzo how do you make those drop shadows?

That was one of my big problems trying to get the images scaled right. They would always get blurry when I resized them. I never could find a way to resize them without them getting all fucked up looking. I

These days I use the layer option in Photoshop5.5 or above. or the eye candy filter.

But to make them by hand, copy the layer Aw/ the text. Fill it with black while preserving transparency or re-type the text in black on another layer, then hit that layer with a blur until you get the desired amount of shadow. You might want to move it slightly to offset the shadow, or adjust the layer opacity as well.

Sweet Jimmy do you have PhotoShop or Paint Shop Pro?

You do? Cool, then this will be easy.

I believe in PhotoShop 5.5 or lower you could just go in to layer > options > layer effects > drop shadow. (Or something along those lines it's easy to find just snoop around for it.

In Photo Shop 6 you double click on the layer ( the one you want to add the shadow to) in the layer menu on the left side of the screen. That will open a window called "layer style" select the highlight button, and experiment with the settings.

In Paint Shop Pro, it's a little different. You need to go into Image > effects > drop shadow. Again, experiment with the settings.


For both programs it's best to start by adding and manipulating your photos first. When those are set the way you like them, add a new layer and add your text to that new layer.

Both programs are layering programs, use that to your advantage.

Once you've created your text and flattened it to your clear "text-only" layer it's easy to manipulate.

If you still need help let me know, and I'll create a visual tutorial for you.

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wizzo do I do need a doctorate in ancient greek to do it by hand? cause I don't have a clue what your talking about.

Layer, drop shadow? is that for the layman?

i have 5.5 is it worth getting 6.0?

5.5 has the option in layers for drop shadow but I do prefer eye candy ,as for resizeing I do them in paintshop ,its just easyer and you have more options when you do it there.then convert to jpeg and import to photoshop. thats how I do it.
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