PSP7 Tutorial: King of the Mods

Go from this to this in... uh, six? seven? easy steps using PSP7, though, as my tutorials always are, it's probably easily translatable.

Notes:
All layers are at 100% opacity, unless otherwise stated.
I'm assuming everyone knows how to duplicate a layer.

Desaturate means to make a layer black and white. This is how:
Adjust > Hue/Saturation/Lightness with these settings:
Edit: Master
Hue: 0
Saturation: -100
Lightness: 0
(or click this link to see what you’re supposed to be looking at).
(I know this is obvious, but it's something I'm always asked!)

First I started with this base of the delightful Boosh boys from my site, The Boosh Slash Haven, cropped and sharpened twice, leave me with this:
Uck, dark.

Simple fix, duplicate the layer and set it to screen.

Right, now merge. Then do the obligatory Exclusion layer. I used #000040.

Merge again. Duplicate the layer and desaturate it, set it to Hard Light.

Duplicate the desaturated layer and set it to screen.

Now, for a nice border. I did a select all (Selections > Select All), then contracted the selection by 6px (Selections > Modify > Contract). Now, with all that selected, Copy Merged (Edit > Copy Merged) and Paste as a New Layer. Set it to Burn.



Next I added text. I'll admit, I hate doing text, I can never think of anything interesting to put on there, or a nice font that works. Anyway, I just wrote "King of the Mods" in black, in font 04b24, 6px, anti-alias off, set to burn.

Then I hit the magic wand tool and clicked on the layer that has the text on. Click anywhere except where the text is, now invert the selection (Selections > Invert), create a new layer and flood your selected bit with white (or whatever colour you want). Select None (Selections > Select None), and drag the white below the text. Gaussian Blur (Effects > Blur > Gaussian Blur) anything between 1 and 3 points.

And you're done.