Creating a pattern for Sculpture Effect

Creating patterns for the Sculpture effect is very easy.

Create a blank image 350 x 350. Add some color to it. Below I used the Chalk brush and dabbed color on the canvas.

Go to Effects>Reflection Effects>Pattern. Instantly you have a pattern created from your canvas. Alter settings to suite your needs. Click ok and save the new image to your Paint Shop Pro Patterns folder normally located in C:\Program Files\Jasc Software\Paint Shop Pro\Patterns.

Below is the first pattern.

I used a duplicate copy of the original image and went to Effects>Reflection Effects>Kaleidoscope to create another image. Save it to your Patterns folder.

You can also apply all kinds of effects to those patterns and save them also as patterns. See the images below. All have a different type of effect applied and then were saved to my Patterns folder.

To use these Patterns with the Sculpture effect create an image 500 x 100 or whatever size is needed to place your text in. It doesn't matter what color the text is.

Go to Effects>Texture Effects>Sculpture and choose one of the new Patterns you created.

You'll automatically have a very nice Sculpture effect with your new patterns.

You can apply the Pattern to your background to make the text appear to be raised from the background.

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