Good morning! It's Tuesday and we are excited! Crop & Create Markham is 50% sold out in just twelve hours! If you have not registered yet, be sure to do so quickly. We are going to start some great challenges on the Crop & Create facebook page over the next few weeks so be sure to join us over there...even if you can't make it everyone is welcome to join the challenges. A great challenge often gets our create juices flowing so join us!
Today Paula Gilarde is joining us for our monthly hybrid tip...
"I showed you how to use digital word art but that often comes in one color- black. I don't know about you, but black doesn't always work in my layouts. Sometimes I want to add some color to make things pop! I'm going to show you a few different ways of changing the color of your word art. These methods work for solid colored elements.
Using the Fill method:
1. Drag your word art .png or .jpg onto your layout.
2. With the word art layer selected, go to the Edit menu and select Fill. The following box will appear.
3. Click on the Color box and select the color that you want to use. Hit OK. Make sure you have the Preserve Transparency box checked -- this will make sure that only the word art (or whatever you are recoloring) will be colored.
You're done!
Using the Paint Bucket Tool:
1. Drag your word art .png or .jpg onto your layout.
2. With the word art layered selected, click the foreground color square at the bottom of your tool palette to choose a new color or get a color from your layout.
3. Choose the Paint Bucket tool
4. In the Options Bar, click "Contiguous". Click the part of your word art that you wish to recolor. This will only recolor any adjacent pixels of the same color. So for example if I want to color just one letter or a few letters I could use this method.
Easy! Give it a try!
~ Paula Gilarde
I always learn new things with you, Paula.
Posted by: Monika Wright | October 18, 2011 at 12:11 PM
Well I aadmit, I´m not into hybrid scrapbooking, so it doesn´t say me much, I´m afraid. I am the type, whowant the actual materials in my hands and cut and glue them onto a real page he he he.
But it´s good to see, that we´re not al the same.
Posted by: Maryann | October 18, 2011 at 01:16 PM