Adding text to your photo or digital scrapbooking page allows you add facts like a date and place as well as your personal journaling. After all, scrapbooking is not just about photos, it is about preserving our memories. So journaling is very important.
To add text, click on the Text button. In the dialog box, you will notice that there are several choices. You may add text above your photo as a title or below it as a caption or you can add text on top of the photo. You can use any font you have installed in your computer and there are a lot of effects which you can apply to the text. And for fun you can add dialog balloons too!
First, select the type of text you would like – title, caption, dialog balloon or text box. The text box can either be free-form or a box which is overlaid on the photo. Overlaying the text box means that when you move the object or photo, the text will move too. This is really helpful in digital scrapbooking where you would like to ‘glue’ some text to a tag.
Click on the text type and the box below will open up. Click on Text Font to choose the font you would like and to set the size. Click on Text Color to change the font color. The familiar buttons of Word are there too for setting text where you would like in the box and for bold, italics and underline. Right next to the Underline button, are two buttons: [> - <] and [< + >] Use these buttons to make the text box bigger or smaller so you can fit it in an area.
After you have typed, grab the text box and drag it. You can place it anywhere! If you want to change it, simply click on the text box to select it and then click on Edit the Selected the Existing Text Object. You can then change the wording, color or whatever. By grabbing on to the rotation corner of the box, you can rotate the text !
Often journaling goes on top of piece of paper or element or journaling block. In digital scrapbooking you can make your own journaling block. Make it as big or small or fancy or plain as you want! Now once you have made it, you want to put the text on top of it so click on the block of text on your LO to select it and then right click. Choose Show Image on Top. Now drag the text box over your journaling block. Done!!
If you find your text box is huge compared to the journaling block then you can use this little trick: see the buttons marked [ - ] and [ + ]? Clicking on those will shrink or enlarge your text box by little steps so you can get it to match the journaling block.
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