How to make a Preppy Sign
First collect everything we are going to need to make this sign, which will be a sitemodel cutout, which you can do yourself or I have some avaible on my site. And then get a sunvector template which I also have avaible on my site. Okay, make sure your sunvector and your sitemodel cutout is the same size, so when you paste the sitemodel later its not off any.
Now for the first step, go to your sunvector and select everyother black line, and fill it with the color you would like to use, I used a pale yellow.
Now create a new raster layer and fill those same lines in with the pattern of your choice. Then set that layer to lighten, and merge it down.
K, create a completly new doucment and fill it with scanlines. Now go back to the sunvector and cut out the lines you just filled in and paste it into the scanline document. K, then go to Effects>3D Effects>Inner Bevel and make the settings as shown.
Now expand the selection by 1 pixel and cut that out.
K, go back to the sunvector and paste what you just cutout as a new layer.
Now repeat those steps for all the other lines and this is what it should look like.
Now to move on to the sitemodel part. Select the green parts of the sitemodel and invert the selection.
Make two more new documents fill one with black and one white and paste the sitemodel on the white. Expand the selection by 2 and paste it on black document. Expand then selection by one on the black.
K, paste that onto the sunvector. Now, I'm like addicted to doing a dropshadow, I do it to almost everything thing. So I put a dropshadow on the sitemodel.
Now for the text make a gradient matching the colors of the background.
For the text I used fishbowl, and obviously the gradient. Now create a new layer and fill the words (on the new layer!) with a stripe pattern and set the layer to lighten.
Cut it out and using those same two black and white documents (just like with the sitemodel) exapnd the selections two on the white and 1 on the black. Now paste it back onto the sign and site it with a dropshadow. Now double that layer, mirror the double layer and set the opacity low.
Here you go!
