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Last Updated:
Jan 20th, 2007 - 12:55:03 |
Do you ever buy a piece of word art and wish that it had been a different color? Does it blend in too much with the background you want to use it on making it
barely readable? What about when you want to erase something in it? If you have any of these concerns, than this tutorial will come in handy!
First, and the easiest, is re-coloring the word art into a solid color, say from black to white, or from multi-colored to
black, etc. Here is an example of when you may want to change the color of the word art from black as the
background is very dark which makes the word art hard to read, where if it was lighter you would not have a
problem with this.
Changing this one is simple, simply select the word art so that it’s highlighted, go to Edit/Fill then
choose your color. I chose white. Since there is some transparency to this word art, the background
will show through a bit making the white appear beige.
Okay, now I’m going to show you how to change the color on any part of the word art that you would like to change. For example, I don’t like the bright white center of this urchin, when it was black it was fine, but the white
doesn’t look right. To do this, choose the Paintbrush Tool in the menu bar on the left. I zoomed in really close and used the settings shown below to color in the center of the urchin. I chose a black brush, a transparency of 50
since the word art has transparency in it as well, and set the soft edge at 10 so it would blend in nicely. You can adjust these settings as needed, including the size of the brush if you’re working in a larger area.
Now the word art looks like this the sample below. Much nicer for a dark background!
Now I’ll explain how to change the color of a larger object, like the urchin itself. I’m going to make it green, and since it’s a larger area, I’ll choose 300 as the paintbrush size. I’m also going to use a little less transparency so that the color is less subtle. Again, with the word art highlighted, I just paint the color on.
You can do the same with the text, changing all the words, or just some of them. See the sample below.
Don’t want any text at all? Use the erase tool in place of the brush.
Or even erase the urchin for a nifty little word frame.
So if you think word art is limited in the ways you can use it, try these techniques, you may be
surprised!
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