Before you open your PhotoImpact, find
the font you've downloaded and open it up. Now you can open your PI. By
that way you don't have to install all the different fonts into your
usual font folder.
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Open a new
image (white arrow, below):
Click the User-defined box (red arrow)
and set both the Width and the Height to 400 pixels. Actually we
won't need that much space, but it really doesn't matter.
Set the Custom color to black (1). |
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Select the
Text Tool (red arrow), find the font you will use (in our case the one
with the name MirrorImage) in the dropdown menu (1), and set the Size to
180 (2). Since we have a black canvas, set the color to white (3) and click
on your image (4).
Type the letter L (small letter) and you will get the same picture as
the one to the left.
To change the Mode of your font, you go to Mode (5) and find the mode
you want to use. Here we shall let it be with the 2D Object mode.
Click the Pick Tool (6) ... that will activate your font/object.
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I moved my
font/object a little bit down with the Pick Tool, so I could see the
finished effect better.
Open the Easy Palette (EP) and chose the Galleries (red arrow). Find
Type Gallery (1)/Fire(2). Right click on the thumbnail with the name
Fire 5 (3)/Modify Properties and Apply (4).
That should bring up the window you can see below.
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In this window
you can change the Strength (red arrow) of the fire effect, but you can
also change the Inside color, Middle color or Outside color (1).
Use the Preview button (2) and check the look of the effect, or use the
OK button (3), if you like the standard adjustments from PI. |
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I used the
standards, and that's what we get by doing so! |
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we want to use ready, I shall show you in the 2.part how you can save
this object, so it will look nice on your website.
HAVE FUN!!!
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If you need any help with
this tutorial - or want to make suggestions to improve it -
please email
me!
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