![]() If you’d like to make one yourself, I offer a very elaborate pdf tutorial with dozens and dozens of clear pictures in my webshop. You can’t mail it of course, you’ll have to hand it out yourself – but that only adds to the fun! □ So there’s an idea for an alternative birthday card, which mine is going for. In its center it sports a tiny paper box with some birds and butterflies ‘flying away’ from it, and in its center there’s a ‘floating’ micro book with some actual pages! I decorated with fussy-cut bits from the design paper – and, I admit, a tiny little bit of colored cardstock to diecut some curls. The two sheets I used were from the Vintage Circus collection by Scrapberry’s, which has beautiful muted tones, giving it a vintage yet colorful atmosphere. it only needs two sheets of double-sided design paper to make and decorate.This week however I’m sharing a different kind of explosion box: That's all there is to it! You can create any shape you want from scratch, or even use the Custom Shape tool to make text boxes that conform to special boundaries.ĭid you use this technique in any of your own work? Share it with us in the comments.Up until now my explosion boxes had always had at least two layers of decorated cardstock, oftentimes even three. You can now set all your text properties like font size, color, and justification in the Character and Paragraph panels. Type or paste some text in, and then hide your original shape. You'll notice that that type tool icon border changes from a rectangle to an ellipse.Ĭlick on your shape and a text enclosure will be created on a new layer. Select the Type tool and hover over your newly created shape. Clicking and dragging lets you create curved lines. Pro Tip: Holding Shift while clicking will help you create a straight line between two points. Our foreground color is set to white since our source image is primarily black.Ĭlick on your canvas to add points and create the shape that you want your text to conform to. The mode can be set to either Shape or Path in the top toolbar, but it's better to choose Shape because it will create a new layer and will be easier to see depending on what is set as your foreground color. Open your source photo and select the Pen tool. This tutorial will teach you how to create a shape from scratch and insert text that conforms to the edges of that shape. You can create everything from a single line of text, to a fully custom text box shape. ![]() The type tool in Photoshop is more flexible than you might think. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
December 2022
Categories |