diamonds and gold

[Lyndastuff]

Hello,

I really would like to know how I can create diamonds in text of gold, and a diamond background, a diamond ring.. things like this. I have searched the internet for tutorials but for whatever reason it is not working out for me. Plus, I wanted to use it for my name and the one tutorial that I found, the text he was using looked pretty when he had done it, but with that same font, I didn't like the way the letter "L" in italic looked.
I run CS3 and elements 4 on windows XP

Thanks, Linda

[Wendy]

Hi Linda ...

... and welcome to Scrapper's Guide :)

Did you try it with another font ... I would think that there should be others around that it work with then maybe have an L that you like ...

Wendy

[Priss]

I do this with a starbrush, or with a lens flare (depending on the size of the jewel) Good luck, and be sure to let us see what you come up with.

[Lyndastuff]

Wendy,
Yes, I did try it with another font but I must be doing something wrong. I had even bought a beautiful font called AyresRoyal, which doesn't give me a bold version of it.

Priss, if I figure it out, I would be sure to show you what I do, but I was really hoping that this would be the place to come to for a beginners tutorial. <s> I've emailed Linda S. to request such a tutorial, I hope she does it.

Thanks, Linda

[Margeeo]

Linda see if this is what your looking for. I've used this on text, with a bold font and it works real well.

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1UNtyWlaCOxhrMXkRqHRsdIdeg1PLp_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1UNtyWlaCOxhrMXkRqHRsdIdeg1PLp)

Tutorial is here.

http://www.andreibilan.blogspot.com/2006/09/bling-bling-your-logo.html

Marge

[Lyndastuff]

Marge,

Thank you, you wouldn't happen to know if this tutorials noise is meant to be "0" or not? Because there is a )% there..
Also, the diamond that they give to download is in .gif.. If I'm going to print it out, then I could use that.. shouldn't it be in .psd?

Thanks, Linda

[dmrdm]

The noise is 0. (I right clicked on the image and did a open in new window and it was a larger size so I could read it)

If you're talking about the diamond that one downloads on the site, you're only using that to define (make) a pattern, so it doesn't matter that it is a gif. You're then using that pattern in your LO. Your LO will still be a psd unless you're saving your LO as gif.

By the way, neat site that was referenced.

[Priss]

Sorry, Linda, I didn't understand your question. I didn't realize you meant diamond shapes, I thought you meant diamond jewels/facets/sparklies....
Hope you find a satisfactory answer to your question.