Nameplate

          This is my nameplate. The first thing I did was put a rounded rectangle on my canvas, then I did a ctr+alt+F to fit the rectangle to my canvas. After that I clicked font and wrote my name, clicked the Bold,Underline keys. I clicked the glow, drop shadow, Gaussian Blur, to create the effects on my name.   I created a background, added different colors then moved the middle centering bar a bunch of different ways until I found this background shape.