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BladeProThis tutorial will teach you how to make your own BladePro "Presets" and where to find the ones that come with BladePro.

Tiger with a BladePro backgroundYou can do a lot of interesting things with BladePro. I have displayed a few examples here. This tiger started out on a plain white background. I selected the white background with a feather of 2 and then applied a texture to it.


 

BladePro borderYou can also put very nice frames around a picture.


 

BladePro textYou can make interesting buttons and banners.


 

Blade Bar 

BladePro CopperIn this tutorial I will show you how I made this effect and how I saved it.


 

 

  • Blade2First I selected a new image with a white background. Next I selected a light yellow foreground color. I choose a "fat" font so I could show you the full effect of the texture. The font is called "Impact", bold, and 48 size font.
  • wood.bmpTo help get a copper color I made this wood graphic and saved it as a ".bmp" file. You can alter the texture in BladePro by using a .bmp file as a reference to texturize. You can click here and download a WinZip file with the "copper.q9q" environment (presets) and the "wood.bmp" file. Unzip this file in the BladePro enviroments and textures "environments and textures" directory.
  • Next, with the yellow text still selected, I opened BladePro by going to the "Image" menu and then, "Plug-in Filters"/"Flaming Pear"/"BladePro". Now you should see the BladePro control panel like this one.BladePro control panel This is only the left side of the control panel because I don't have enough space to display it all. On the right side will be the result of the current BladePro settings. This is what the panel will look like after you follow the next step.
  • Now you need to load the preset that you downloaded and installed in the "environments and textures" directory. To do that you click on this button Enviroment load button and go to the "environments and textures" directory. Find the file that says copper.q9q and click ok or double click on that file.
  • Now the graphic text on the right side should look like the starting example above. Click ok and you are done.
  • BladePro Save ButtonTo save as a preset just click on this button and it will save all the settings and the associated .bmp file.

 

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