Let's make a divider! 

Basic Divider

1. Open a new transparent image  550 x 150. 

2. Flood fill with your back ground color.

3. Create a new Raster layer & choose a ding font such as Seperates using these settings:

I had the pink as my background color and ivory as the foreground color with a stroke width of 2 because I wanted the ivory line around my divider to match my title.

4. Add the Blade Pro preset coconut ice & drop shadow. 

5. I like to go to Adjust/Sharpness/Unsharp Mask using these settings:

6. Crop any excess background and save as a transparent GIF like we did earlier. 

Embellished Divider

 If you would like to add some pizzazz to your divider, here are some ideas

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Here I added the rose tube scaled down to 15 with a drop shadow.

Here I embellished with some gems.

You are limited only by your imagination here. Just remember each time you add a new element, create a new layer for it so if you want to move it or delete, you won't have to start all over again.

But I don't have Blade Pro!! No problem. Instead use PSP's Inner Bevel:

Look how pretty! In fact, I like it better with the Inner Bevel. I added a drop shadow and used the Unsharp Mask effect. 

This should give you a good start on making dividers.

How about some buttons?

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