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Get Your Text Effects On!

December 31, 2014 By Melissa Shanhun Leave a Comment

Does the type tool mystify you? Do you wish you knew exactly which settings to use for what?

I've been looking at the creative ways you can use the type tool. You can learn how to use:

  • Text on a Path
  • Text Inside a Shape
  • Text on a Shape
  • Text on a Selection

Text on a Path

Text on a path in Photoshop Elements

When you scrap with paper and pen, it's easy to write your text where ever and however you like on the scrapbook page. Journal around the edge of the page? Easy! Write a title around the curving edge of a flower? No problem.

In the past, it wasn't so easy for digital scrapbookers. But all that has now changed!

Text on a path is on of those little digi-scrapping techniques that allows us digi-scrappers to have just as much fun with our titles and journaling.

However, in Photoshop Elements 10 and newer there's the ability to have your text follow a path. Something like this:

A person holding a baby
Credits: Super Cute Project Life Value Kit

Learn how today: Text on a Path

Text Inside a Shape

Add some pizzazz to your next page with a custom shape for your journaling or titles in Photoshop Elements.

In Photoshop Elements 10 and newer there's the ability to have your text inside a shape. Something like this:

Credits: Super Cute Project Life Value Kit

Learn how today: Text Inside a Shape

Text On a Shape

Text on a shape in Photoshop ELements
Credits: Becky Higgins Project Life Baby For Her

Photoshop Elements provides a variety of tools you can use to spruce up the text on your scrapbook page.

Credits: Studio Flergs and Sugarplum Paperie My Sweet Girl
Credits: Studio Flergs and Sugarplum Paperie My Sweet Girl

Another feature of Photoshop Elements is text on a shape. Text on a shape is perfect for creating journaling around the edge of a photo or page, as well as putting text along the outline of a shape.

Learn how today: Text on a Shape

Text on a Selection

Text on a selection in Photoshop Elements!

Are you ready to discover one of the hidden gems in Photoshop Elements?

Imagine if you could just make your text go where ever you want it to, without having to upgrade to Photoshop and spend hours learning about the pen tool? With Text on a Selection you can.

Learn how today: Text on a Selection

What’s your favorite creative way to use text on a scrapbook page?
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Filed Under: The Daily Digi, Tutorials Tagged With: journaling, text, text tool, titles, type tool

About Melissa Shanhun

Melissa Shanhun is a Aussie mum of four and avid digital scrapbooker. She loves to show others how fun and easy it can be to record your precious memories with tech tools like Photoshop Elements.

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