Re: What am I missing in this?

It doesn't work with Word Art, at least in Pub 2007.
The option FORMAT>paragraph is greyed out.
It works in regular text/font but you can't fill that font with a picture.
Inserting it with regular just puts it in back of the text.
The person wanted several lines of words (fat font) with the picture he was
using IN the font. Not in the background.
Fill options and use a picture (in the text itself)

This is the example given:
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm211/jjb-6/Picture2.jpg

He wanted the two lines closer together, with the picture in them.
If you set it up with two separate lines, the picutre repeats in each line,
instead of showing overall.

I think it can be done in PS with the methods discussed in this
thread..Don't know if he has that. It could be done and copy/pasted.


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Carrie wrote:
A few years ago, not sure if it was when I still has PS 7 (I have
CS2 now) I read something, in a book, or a tutorial, and played
around with it for awhile. If I took notes I can't find them and
can't find where I read it.

The way I remember it, you open a photo (graphic) make a new box
(any color) use the TEXT took set in MASK and type something on the
new box. It's selected (ants running around the letters). I've
tried this (now) also with inverting the selection, so that's not
it. Then the picture is dragged over the text, and at some point
"group
layers" is clicked and the text comes out with the picture/graphic
in it.

This is one I made when I was practicing it at the time (I copy/
pasted the word on a black background several times)

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y212/starchild_dreams/blossom_love.jpg

I think what I'm forgetting is something to set up in the layers
pallette, I've tried dragging them in different places first.

I've found other ways of doing this, ended up with letters filled
with the picture, but trying to remember this one way.

Thanks

This is fairly straightforward.
Open the fill image into a new layer.
Expand the text tool by clicking the wee black arrow on the bottom
right corner of the button. When you do that, you'll see various
text options, one of which is "horisontal mask text". Select this
tool. Type the text. The screen will switch to a red quickmask type
overlay with the text being punched out of it.
When done, select any tool other than the text tool and your text
will become a marching ants outline.
Now, simply invert the selection if needed, and hit delete...

Okay, that sounds like it. I get to the red quickmask with the
marching ants.
Then one step was to drag the image (photo) over the new-with text
mask (marching ants) you could sort of see the text enough to line it
up.
I know it had the "group layers" as part of it, I had never heard of
this, or used it before till I did this.

I don't think I dreamed it, I have the pictures I did and saved at
the time.

The ways discribed here sound like they'd end up with the same thing,
and probably easier.

Thanks!

You've got me intrigued now.
I tried applying the fill image after creating the text mask, but I
lost the mask every time I tried it.
I can see an evening of experimentation unfolding ahead of me ;-)

I know what you mean.
I've spent many hours trying to figure something out, the last time was
yesterday, someone in a Publisher Group asked about filling Word Art
text (several lines) with a picture, and then moving the words/lines
closer together (to have more of the picture under it show in the text)
You can click and drag to make the text bigger, wider, higher, but can't
move the separate lines closer (more compact). If you create each line
separatly in Word Art you can, but when it fills each lines has a
separate version of the picture in it.

Before yesterday, I don't even remember knowing you could fill word art
with a graphic.

I ended up deciding it's the font that matters, some fonts aren't as
spaced (apart) as others. The person thought (and was asking) you could
adjust the spacing between the lines, but apparently you can't, at least
in Publisher and Word Art.

This is what got me to thinking about how I did it in PS, thinking if it
was set up (big font, with picture fill, closer together like the person
wanted) it could than be copy/pasted, or inserted (as a jpg) into
Publisher (if it had to be finished there)

The person asking, ended up saying he was going to create each line of
filled text with part of the picture (guessing where top, middle and
bottom would be) and then paste it together.

Which seems like a complicated way.

I wish I could find where I saw the way I learned to do it, and I'm
pretty sure it had the "group layer" at the end, bcause I had never
noticed or used that before.

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you could adjust the
spacing between the lines, but apparently you can't, at least in
Publisher
and Word Art.


yes you can
FORMAT>paragraph
line spacing or right click and choose text paragraph

select the text first by highlight

never use word art so not sure about the options in it

I'll have to go and try it. People on the Publisher group didn't seem to
have any answers, which is one reason I got into it (trying things out to
see)
I hadn't really used Word Art either till yesterday. I like the way you
can use fat font and fill it with an image, though of course, we can do
that with PS too.
And, I like a challenge. At least on the computer.




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