The following tutorial uses PSP5.1, Blade Pro & Alien Skin's Eye Candy filters.
This tutorial illustrates the variations that can be achieved using Blade Pro presets with the Layer Blend palette found in PSP5.1 - although any image editor software with layer capabilities will be able to replicate the effects. These variations have been applied to images using identical filter settings. The only change to the image occurs as a result of changing the layer palette properties.
Images using 3 layers are made up of the following layer components:
- Layer2=amr charred.q9q. (Click here for an example of the amr charred.q9q preset and it's settings).
- Layer1=Eye Candy "Fire" filter - settings as shown.
- Background=Eye Candy "Smoke" filter - settings as shown.
Images using 4 layers are made up of the following layer components:
- Layer3=amr charred.q9q. (Click here for an example of the amr charred.q9q preset and it's settings).
- Layer2=Eye Candy "Fire" filter - settings as shown.
- Layer2=Eye Candy "Smoke" filter - settings as shown.
- Background=blank text selection.
To achieve the effects shown below, perform the following steps:
- Open a new 300x300, 16.7 million (24 bit) image with a white background.
- Select your text tool, centre it on your new image and click.
- Enter your text, with centred CHECKED & Floating text UNCHECKED (I've used VAG Rounded BT size 100).
- Copy (ctrl+C) and paste as a new layer (ctrl+L) as many times as you require for the example.
- Apply the desired filter to the appropropriate layers as shown above.
- Modify the Layer Blend Palette settings as shown in the examples to achieve the desired effect.
Examples of Variations:

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Last updated on July 10, 1998.