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Set for printing

This simple technique produces an effect you might see in an inked header for a cartoon like Johnny Hart's B.C. The font is JuneBug by Pizzadude. You can download Pizzadude fonts from DaFont.com

1. Open a new document window. Leave it at the default white.
2. Set the font size to 69 in the Properties panel and type the word STONE.
3. Fill the text with white. We'll add a stroke later.
4. Clone the text and hide the clone by clicking on its eyeball icon in the Layers panel.
5. With the original text selected, click in the Fill color box on the Properties panel.
6. Click on Fill Options > Pattern > Glass Bubble.

It looks pretty odd at this point. Let's bleach it out

1. With the pattern filled text still selected, click on the Filters button [+] in the Properties panel and choose Brightness/Contrast.
2. Set the Brightness level minus to 20 and the Contrast level to 100.
3. Click OK to accept the changes and close the Brightness/Contrast panel.
4. Click on the Filters button [+] again and choose Hue/Saturation.
5. Move the saturation slider all the way to the left.
6. Reduce the opacity of the image to 70%.

   
   Figure 1: The image at 70% opacity

Finish by giving the original text an interesting outline and offsetting the two text objects.

1. In the Layers panel, click on the eyeball icon of the text clone to unhide it.
2. Click in the Stroke fill box on the Properties panel and add a black stroke.
3. For stroke placement, choose Stroke Inside.
4. Click on the Stroke Options button.
5. Select Watercolor > Thick > Tip size 2, Texture - Grain 30%.
6. Move the text about ten pixels to the right of the patterned text beneath it.

   
   Figure 2: With our stroke options applied

Easy wasn't it? :-)

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Fireworks, opacity, brush stroke, inked header