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A little while ago we spoke about how to take the Shape Tools to create our own letters. Now of course, those could never be Fonts in Painter. They're simply shapes that we can fill with color or patterns or anything else as long as it's selected. So what I want to do is I want to create an actual word that is a Font and turn it into artwork, which will pretty much take it away from being an editable letter or a word. So, to do this I'm going to go to a brand new File and I'm going to grab my Text Tool and I'm going to type a word here. I'm over into position, and once again just take a look at your Layers Palette to see that we have Text. It's called "word" because it's in the quotation marks, and we have this big T here. You really can't miss this guy. If we go to the Layers Palette you'll see an arrow that allows us to go all the way to the bottom and choose Convert Text to Shapes. So I'll click that one time and all of a sudden the T is gone, the quotation marks are gone, and we can now see that when we twirl this open that we have our word. Notice that we have them all as shapes. So what does this mean? We can no longer grab the Type Tool and highlight this to change it because it is no longer a part of the Font family; it is now a piece of artwork. And what we can do is grab our Selection Tool, or the Shape Selection Tool, which is the white arrow, and we can click along the edges of each one of these letters to then change the shape, actually. So this is really fun. Let me go ahead and just zoom in a little bit and show you this. I can grab the white arrow and I can click on the edge of this W and pull this point, or Control Handle, and change the shape of it. Now, you also see we have a Handle here. This is a Bezier Handle, and we can pull on the Handles here to change the shape and give it a nice, kind of a Laugh-In kind of shape Ð I'm not sure if you guys remember that show, some people are kind of young, some people kind of old, but Laugh-In was one of those comedy shows that was on way back in the day with Flip Wilson and all that; ah, man. I just aged myself just horribly Ð but anyway we've got this nice kind of 60s-70s kind of feel here, and one of the things I want to definitely point out is that if you click in the center of a shape all of these little control dots, or points are red, which means we can move it anywhere we want to, but to actually change the shape of it you have to click very carefully along the edges, like so, and when you see the white control points you can click on one, like so, or click outside like this and drag a few of them, and then the red ones can be moved at the same time. So, I'll do it again, click here, drag to select, and I have a couple of different ones, or two different letters, and I can manipulate them both at the same time. So it's a really nice way to customize the letters that you have in Painter and turn this into your own logo or whatever you want to. Just keep in mind that once again, that is no longer Text. You can go back and change this W to an L or anything like that.