This section of the tutorial will have to do with alot of experimenting. Download this zipped file to get the needed bmps. Put them in your textures and environments folder. Put your Baby Kruffy font in your font folder. Open a large file with transparent background and type your name, nickname or whatever using the Baby Kruffy font pt size 72.

Set your controls to match Figure 1. Load glass11.bmp into the environment graphic. After you do that save this preset as blueberry with your call letters preceding it. Hit OK to make your sig. Now I want you to make at least 4 to 5 more sigs experiment with the controls excluding the Glues. Compare the differences, and remember:

Figure 1

If you come up with a preset that you like NAME IT and SAVE IT!

Once you are done experimenting, starting with a new selected name, load your blueberry preset back in. We are now going to experiment a bit with glues. As you can see in Figure 2 that there are quite a few glues, but only a few make sense to me right now and we are going use those.

Figure 2

The first Glue we will use is Unlit. When you hit ok and use drop shadow behind it, it sort of makes it look cartoon like. I kind of like this effect.

Figure 2a

Make a new alpha selection, SBP and now click Height. Height is a bit tricky, because depending on the preset depends on what effect you wind up with. With the blueberry preset you get the Figure 3a, but with my jo_greenglass-3 (Figure 3b) you get the effect shown in Figure 3c.

Figure 3a

Figure 3b

Figure 3c

Now experiment with the others, especially Difference, Procedural +/-. Screen will also have a nice effect under certain circumstances.

Well I hope this SBP tutorial has set you on the road to great graphic fun, because if nothing else, Super Blade Pro is a blast!