{"id":46102,"date":"2022-08-30T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/?p=46102"},"modified":"2022-09-06T13:03:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T20:03:51","slug":"tutorial-tuesday-photoshop-elements-187","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/2022\/08\/tutorial-tuesday-photoshop-elements-187\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial Tuesday (Photoshop Elements)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turning a Font into a Sticker: Reprise<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nPDF Version: https:\/\/bit.ly\/3BgqBlm<\/a><\/p>\n

Did you know that my very first Tutorial Tuesday Blog<\/strong> post appeared on August 30, 2016? Six years!! So I thought it might be fun to re-run that first post (with maybe some tiny updates) just to see how far we’ve come. Ready?<\/p>\n

Aug <\/span>30 <\/span>2016<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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GingerScrapper<\/strong><\/span> Heather<\/strong> requested some help with creating eye-catching titles, so this little lesson will focus on turning a font into an outstanding sticker. Over the next few weeks we\u2019ll go into more detail on how to really jazz up your layouts, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n

The very first step is to figure out what to call your layout. You want to choose something that works with the topic, but you don\u2019t want it to be \u201cJoey\u2019s 8th Birthday\u201d\u2026 where\u2019s the excitement in that? Instead you could go with \u201cToday He\u2019s 8!\u201d For the layout I created to help with this lesson, I looked up some surfing terms, looking for a hook. I came up with \u201cRippin\u2019 the Foam<\/strong><\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

I like to build my titles on their own work space \u2013 there are fewer distractions and I can see clearly what I\u2019m doing \u2013 so I always open a new file <CTRL\/CMD+N<\/strong>>. (I use keyboard shortcuts, they really speed things up, but if you\u2019re not comfortable with them, go ahead and do things as you usually do.) The size of the work space can be whatever you want, because you\u2019ll be able to resize your title when you\u2019re ready to use it.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, I\u2019ve already chosen the colour for my title. I decided to work with the two fonts selected by Jennifer<\/strong> of\u00a0Leaving a Legacy Designs<\/strong>\u00a0for the August challenge, since I hadn\u2019t done it yet. Using\u00a0Sacramento<\/em>\u00a0I typed out \u201cRippin’\u201d but found it to be a little anemic for a title. To beef it up a bit, I simplified the text\u00a0<right-click on the layer and select Simplify Layer from the drop-down menu<\/strong>> then I selected the text by <CTRL\/CMD+click<\/strong>> on the thumbnail (the little image in the Layers Panel<\/strong>). Once I got those little ants marching around my text, I went to the SELECT<\/strong> tab menu and chose Modify>Expand<\/strong> and put the number 3 in the box.<\/p>\n

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That pushed the line of ants out by 3 pixels, which was just enough. (Sometimes you have to play around to get it right, so don\u2019t forget that CTRL\/CMD+Z<\/strong> is your best friend.) Next I used the Fill Tool<\/strong> (the paint bucket) to fill in the space created in the last step. You\u2019ll notice that there\u2019s a very thin line inside the filled space so just keep moving the paint bucket around and clicking until all the space is filled in. Now I had a nice, fat word but it was a little umm\u2026 meh. So my next step was to change the foreground colour in my colour picker to a medium-dark gray.<\/p>\n

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In the EDIT<\/strong> tab menu, I chose Stroke (Outline) Selection<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

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… set the value to 1<\/strong> and chose Center<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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That puts a very thin gray line around the edge of the text. To continue on achieving the sticker look, I changed the colour of my foreground<\/strong> to white (ffffff<\/strong>) and I again selected the EDIT<\/strong> tab menu, only this time I put 6<\/strong> as the value and selected Outside<\/strong> for the location.<\/p>\n

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And this is the result.<\/p>\n

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Now we\u2019re cookin\u2019! I changed the font to the other featured font for August,\u00a0RNS Camelia<\/em> and added the rest of my title in black. It needed a little nudging to get it where I wanted it \u2013 that\u2019s part of the process. deciding what looks good. I chose not to include that part in the sticker because I wanted it to look like I\u2019d written it on the layout. \u00a0At this point, I had two layers on my work space. With the Rippin\u2019 layer selected, I added a Drop Shadow Layer Style<\/strong> and tweaked it so it was close to the sticker, sort of sharp and fairly dark. <Double-click<\/strong> on the fx<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0icon on the layer in the layers palette, then use the sliders to adjust the size \u2013 sharpness of the edge, distance -width of the shadow and opacity \u2013 darkness of the shadow until it looks good to your eye.><\/p>\n

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Once that was done, I merged the two layers together so I could move the title in one piece onto my layout.\u00a0Now, knowing that I didn\u2019t want my title to \u201cfloat\u201d, I selected the background paper layer of my layout to drop the title onto. It needed to be adjusted for size and placed where it looked best then ta-da! it was done! As you can see in the very first photo above, if I\u2019d just used the font by itself, my title would have been lost against the patterned paper in the background. With a few simple steps, I made it so much better!<\/p>\n

There you have one very basic method of adding interest to your titles. The tutorials to follow will build on this lesson and add a lot of cool techniques to your skill set. I hope you\u2019ll continue to suggest topics for future lessons so you can grow your skills to match your imagination. (This part made me LOL. 273 tutorials and counting!!)<\/p>\n

PDF Version: https:\/\/bit.ly\/3BgqBlm<\/a><\/p>\n

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