Software Used: Corel Photo-Paint 9, CorelDRAW 9.
This logo was created for the electronic greeting cards section of this site (no longer online). This first part covers the Photo-Paint portion of the lesson. The red stamp was applied in CorelDRAW and is covered in part two.
1.) I'm sure there's a very complicated, yet effective technique for getting a realistic-looking torn paper effect, but I prefer to go the simple route whenever I can. That's why, in this case, I tore up an old grocery bag, crumpled it into a tiny ball, smoothed it out, then taped it onto a white sheet of paper and scanned it into Photo-Paint. I knew I'd be adding the postmark in the upper right hand corner, so I left a little extra white space there when I selected the scanning area. If you don't have access to a scanner and you want to follow along with this tutorial, you can right click and save the image below.
2.)
Next I set the paint color to black, by double-clicking the
paint swatch in the status bar, and choosing black from any
one of the color palettes. 
3.)
Choose the 
text tool, click on the image, and type your text. I used the
font PendryScrD, a size of 60 points, line spacing of 80, and
right aligned the type.
4.) If it's not already open, you'll want to open the Object Docker, by going to Window -> Dockers -> Objects.
5.)
In the object manager, set the merge mode for the text to "overlay".
The overlay mode allows the shading of the crumpled paper to
show through the text. While you in the object docker, you might
want to experiment with some of the other modes to get a feel
for what they do. The best way to understand the various modes
is to try them.
6.)
If you need to reposition the text, make sure the text is the
selected object in the docker, click on the 
pointer, then click and drag the text to move it into place.
6.) This concludes the Photo-Paint portion of this tutorial. The final step is to save the file in the native Photo-Paint CPT format. Remember where you saved it because we'll need to import the image into CorelDRAW.
In part two of the tutorial, we'll go into CorelDRAW to create the postmark stamp and add it to our image. Let's go...
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Copyright 1999, S. Chastain, unless otherwise noted.
Screen shots captured with Corel Capture 9. Image conversion
and optimization with Photoshop 5.5.
