Very Computer

> I want to create a corrugated cardboard effect using paint shop and
> BladePro plugin. I want it as if the thin cardboard is partially ripped
> off the cardboard, therby showing parts of the corrugations. So far I
> have scanned in what I want and am happy with the effect, so creating my
> own will probably not be necessary (unless someone can do it). However I
> would then like to add text to this and make it look like it has been
> drawn on the corrugations? I hope I am making sense.

>You want the text to appear on the corrugations and not the outer
>cardboard shell which you have partially peeled off?
>Sounds like an interesting project! I haven't done this but I would
>put the text on its own layer and place it over the cardboard
>background layer. Where the text passes over a groove, I would try to
>select just that portion and then darken it to appear like it is in
>the depression. You might also move that selected portion down a few
>pixels for a 3D effect of it bending into the depression (I hope you
>don't have a lot of text!).

>Or, if Pat wants the text to show only on the raised parts of the
>corrugations, Scott Munro has a tutorial of Graffiti on a Brick Wall which
>could most likely be used for that effect.  The text color appears on the
>bricks but not down in the grout.   Sorry, I don't have the URL to Scott's
>site and the tutorial but am sure someone here can supply it.
>      Barb

> >Or, if Pat wants the text to show only on the raised parts of the
> >corrugations, Scott Munro has a tutorial of Graffiti on a Brick Wall
which
> >could most likely be used for that effect.  The text color appears on the
> >bricks but not down in the grout.   Sorry, I don't have the URL to
Scott's
> >site and the tutorial but am sure someone here can supply it.
> >      Barb

> (replying to myself)  The URL is