This tutorial is written for PSP8.  Thanks so much to Kel at FreePspTubes for granting written permission for me to provide her fairy tube in this tutorial.  This tube has been resized and is for your personal use only.  It is not to be shared in email groups or added to your website for download.  You will also need the free font, Dark Horse, which is provided in the supply zip.

Supplies

Open your fairy in PSP.  Open a new canvas 400 x 400, transparent.  Copy your fairy (Edit > Copy or Ctrl-C) and paste her as a New Layer on your canvas (Edit> Paste> Paste as New Layer or Ctrl-L).  In your Layer Palette, Right click on the new layer and Rename it Fairy.

Click on your Text Tool.  Change your foreground color to #58212A.  Change the background color to White (for the look I used in the banner at the top of this page) or to #AE4C5E (for the look I used on my Tutorial Page).  Using Dark Horse at 48 pt., type your text and click OK.  In your Layer Palette, drag the text layer under the Fairy layer.  Use your Move Tool (looks like a cross) to move your fairy into position on your text.  Try to find a letter to set her on so that she looks natural, but doesn't cover up your name.

In the Layer Palette, Right Click on the Text Layer and Covert to Raster Layer.  Effects> 3D Effects> Inner Bevel.  Use these settings.

Highlight the Fairy Layer in the Layer Palette.  Use your FreeHand Selection Tool with these settings.

Make a circle around the 2 upper feathered wings on the left side.  Go close to the fairy's body, but do not include any of her body or hair in the selection.

Press Ctrl-C (or Edit> Copy) to copy the wings.  Press Ctrl-L (or Edit> Paste> Paste as New Layer) to paste the wings as a new layer.  Press Ctrl-D (or Selections> Select None) to Deselect the wings. 

 In your layer palette, Click on the new Wings layer and drag it below the text layer.  (You may need to scoot the wings over a little before you drag the layer down so that they won't get lost behind your fairy.)  Using your Move tool, position the wings behind your text on the left side.

In the layer palette, Right Click on the Wings layer and Duplicate.  Use your move tool, to move the new wings to the right - beside your first set of wings.  (If you have a very long name, you may need to Duplicate one more time and drag it to the right - do not go all the way to the center of your name though).

Duplicate your Wing layer again.  Press Ctrl-M (or Image> Mirror) to Mirror the wings.  Now drag this set of wings into place behind the Right edge of your name.  Duplicate this layer and drag the new wings to the left beside your last set.  (If you used 3 sets of wings on the left side, then duplicate once more on this side also).

Now duplicate your last layer one more time.  Click on the Deform tool.

You will see a box around your last set of wings.  In the center of the box, there is a handle with a red square on the end.  If you move your cursor over the red square it turns into 2 curved arrows.  When you see the arrows, click and drag the handle up to rotate the box.  The wings should be straight up.

Click on your move tool again and move the wings to the center behind your text.

In the layer palette, turn off the Fairy layer, the Text layer and Raster 1 by clicking on the Eye of each of those layers.  Only the wings should be showing now.  Right Click on any of the wing layers and Merge> Merge Visible.

Right click on this Merged Layer and Rename Feathers.

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