Hi ladies,

I have a Photo Impact question for you all. I’ve been using PI for years and Photo Shop before that. I’ve gone through several versions of PI and I’m currently using 10. Anyway, to my question. Does anyone know how to add color to a font/ding besides just the outline. i.e. I have a ding of a baseball cap and a hotdog (scrapping son’s tee ball pictures). They are both just outlines of their shape. I want to actually color in the hot dog, the bun, and the hat to make them more like elements. For the life of me I can’t figure out how to do it. I’ve tried converting it to an image, outlining it with the lasso then filling it in, and using the paint tools. Nothing is working. I don’t care if I color it solid or just kind of give it a paint brush/air brush look. I just want color inside the outline of the ding. I hope this makes sense. Any ideas????

Thanks!

This is how I color inside of dingbat outlines:

After you place the ding on the layout, click the background paper to activate it and you will be able to use the paintbrush to color in the spaces you want color in. You will be in fact coloring behind the actual dingbat, does this make sense?

Or if you want to be able to move it around on a layout (if you're not sure where to place it), the easiest way is to type the ding just on a plain white background, choose the background layer, paint (with airbrush, paintbrush, whichever tool you want to use) and when you're finished you can merge the layers, and use the wand tool to pick the white outer background, then invert, then copy/paste the colored dingbat into a new layout (like a decal).

Let me know if this works for you, or if you have any other questions!

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The second idea worked great - thank you! That was one of those things that I knew there had to be a way to do and for the life of me couldn't figure it out.

Thanks again!

You're welcome, I'm glad it worked for you!

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