Text background

Needs:

PSP

Materials,  Karin's shapes, make sure they’re in your Basic shape folder.

Fonts Here  you’ll find lots of free fonts, Make a font folder, unzip the fonts. Open several fonts and they’re ready tob e used in PSP.

Mind this: I’m not going in much detail for this lesson, for I don’t want to block your own creativity. It’s just a manual or a guideline to make background paper this way.

Open an image 2400 x 2400

1. Fill with colour of your choice.
2. Make foreground colour darker and turn off background colour.
3. New layer.
4. Basic tool, vector untagged, choose a nice pattern. Add some patterns here and there on your page ( press and hold Mouse button while dragging your mouse ).
5. New layer.
6. Make fore- and background colour a little darker and pick a new basic pattern.
7. Repeat step 5 several times until you’re happy with your results.
8.  New layer.
9. Select text tool and enter some words. Use several different fonts and try rotating the text as well ( select the text and go to image – free rotation ).
10. Because you’ve put everything on separate layers you can easily  adjust the opacity – lower – so that your page becomes more of a unity.
11. When satisfied, merge visible layers.
12. Now a texture can be added.
13. Save as .jpg file.

© Marank Design

~ Translated by Renate Rietveld aka. Dragonfly April 2006 ~