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Working with Paint and Text 57
HANDS ON: Creating Filled Text
This sequence shows you how to create some text and fill it with a
pattern. One image will serve as a fill for the text created in another.
q Open WATER.JPG (our fill image) in the PhotoPlus PROJECTS
folder.
Next, create a new empty image to use for the text.
q Choose New from the File menu to open the New Picture dialog.
Make the size 500×100, with a transparent background.
q Now choose the Text Selection tool and click it in the new image
window to open the Add Text window. Select Cairo SF and 72
points from the formatting options.
q Type the word “water” in the box and click OK to drop the text on
the blank image. Use the Move tool to reposition the selection if
necessary.
q Now, use Ctrl+Tab to go back to WATER.JPG. Select an area
from that image and copy the selection to the Clipboard.
q Toggle back to the new image and paste the Clipboard contents
into the selection by choosing Paste>Paste into Selection from the
Edit menu.