Childrens Book Cover / Create Text on a Curve
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I've added just a little bit of white space to the top to allow for the text, which we are now going to make. So with the text tool selected just click to place the cursor and type "Dinosaur Bob goes to school". Maybe put in a exclamation point in there. At this point it doesn't matter what font you use. You can change it, you can change the color and we are also going to put this type on a curve. So let's open the text section in the objects palette and let's change some of these items. I'm going to want to select all of that and then give it perhaps the same orange that we have in the backpack. I kind of like that orange. The yellow is simply a sign of this being selected. So we won't see that when we click on the canvas. We can give it a drop shadow. We can certainly alter the drop shadow, make it much less opaque. We can also give it more of a blur to soften it a bit, and of course we can change the direction of the shadow to any angle. But I'm thinking that original angle was just fine. And to give it a curve, we've got three kinds of curve. The first curve style is kind of a ribbon effect and I think it's going to distort the lettering too much. I'm going to go with this second style and I'm going to access the tool palette so that I can use the selector tool, this hollow arrow and start moving these anchor points around. The default curve comes with two anchor points, each of which of course has wings or direction lines. You can alter the shape and the amount of the curve. I'm going to add some anchor points and I do that with these vector tools that are in the toolbox. This is the pen tool icon with a '+' (plus) shows add an anchor point. Now I return to the selection tool and I'll drag this thing over a little bit. Let's curve that just a bit more, and let's drag the original pen point down over here. I believe I'll need just another anchor point just about there, and then I can start to create more of a fit to the curve. Let's pull this down a little bit. Actually I think if we increase the font size or perhaps even the tracking, that would be space between the lines we can get more coverage. Because I would like to have this type go pretty far down, at least to where his tail begins. And I also think I'm ready to change the font. I have one called 'kids' in my system and when I switch to that font I find that I need to reduce the point size. So let's do that, a little bit at a time here by clicking on the negative arrow. I don't think I want to change the tracking terribly much. That's looking pretty good. But I think I would like to change the centering and where would we find that? Here is where we find that. We can move the entire, well we can't really move to the left, can we? That's too bad. Well, we could have, if we got this point dragged over a little bit and actually now I can pull this down. And increase that curve, and what shall we do with this area? Probably add another point right about there. Pull that down, make that fit just a little bit better. That's happening, and maybe pull this down, this point, this final anchor point down and that might just do it. Let's collapse the text area so that we can see in our layers when we choose canvas what that looks like. 'Dinosaur Bob goes to school' using a very kid friendly font, using a drop shadow, which if we don't want we can go back to text and choose this non-shadow style. I have to have selected the, you-know-what I have to select that in here. I inadvertently made an additional text layer that I don't need. So this is the only text layer we need, and then we'll choose the no shadow style, and now we can see what we have got.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Painter 7 Techniques |
| Author: | Rhoda Grossman |
| SKU: | 33379 |
| ISBN: | 1932072071 |
| Release Date: | 2002-09-27 |
| Duration: | 7 hrs / 118 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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