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Corel Photo-Paint 9
Bitmapped Filled Text
by Joyce Evans
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I like the
technique we will be looking at today because it is
easy to move the bitmap around inside the text to get
the exact placement you want. You can simply use the
bitmap fill tool, but then you'd have to use x y coordinates
for placement (much more difficult) |
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Open a new
window and select your size File|New. I use pixels because
the destination is the web |
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Click the
text tool in the Toolbox and then click the font selection
on the property bar. Choose your font and size. I choose
Haettenschweiler at a size of 150. I was looking for
a good thick font. If you notice when you are choosing
your font, as you mouse over each name a sample is shown
to the right. I love that feature. |
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If you look
in the objects docker you will see that your text is
now an object. Use the Object picker (the arrow) to
select the text. If you look in the objects docker you
will see an A next to the text, this indicates that
the text is still editable. |
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Place your
mouse over the text and you'll see a list of attributes. |
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Let's bring
in the background fill we want to use. Go to File|Import,
you'll notice that a thumbnail of the image is attached
to the cursor. Click anywhere on the image and it will
be placed on top. |
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Click on the column to the right of the
eye icon in the objects docker. You will see a paper
clip. Which indicates the clip to parent mode which
we won't be covering here)
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Click anywhere
in the text (keep the object [background] selected) and
move the underlying image around until you get the spot
you want in your text. This is the position I choose. |
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*Note* Click on the text in the Object Docker, and go
to Mask|Create From Object, then go to Mask|Save|To Channel
and name it textmask. We'll use this in the next tutorial.
Then remove the mask. |
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In the Objects Docker, shift click on object 2 and
the text line (tutorial) right click - Combine|Combine
Objects together |
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Save this as bitmaptext now and we will play with it
some more in the next tutorial. It will be called Using
a clip mask. |
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