[Hall of tricks]
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Part 4

The last step is to add a small white almost opaque image. The image should look carved in the glass. Many house's front door have some. You can create your own or use a dingbat font. Since I'm not an artist per se, I'll use a dingbat. I discovered a very lovely font in an obscure web site. The font named Vintage, has no readme file nor copyright notice, so click here to download yourself a zipped copy and install it. The following is a sample of the vintage dingbat font.

• Click the Text Tool, then click in the image.
• Set the font size to about 90.
• Type a character than click Apply to see if you like it. If you don't, try another one and click Apply until you find the one you like.
• From the Mode list choose 3D Chisel. Play with the Border and Depth slider to give the effect that pleases you.

Isn't that a beautiful font or what? Now let's change some properties for that decoration.

• Click Material and select the Transparency tab. Set Transparency to 60
• Experiment with other settings. Remember that the decorative image should be off-white and slightly transparent.

I finished the image by adding a black frame around. If you want to do the same:

• Choose Edit/Expand and set one of the value to 4.
• In the Expand color box choose a color, preferably dark. I think black looks nice here.

Here's the final product.

I didn't discovered how to make this composition in one hour. It took me at least two weeks before I was ready to tackle this Web page. In my experimenting, I saved a few of my favorites that you might like to look at. Warning you, they're big but I think they're worth it.