CANDYHEART CUTOUT TEXT TUTORIAL

The candy hearts and Bookman Oldstyle font are attached for you to download.

STEP 1.   have your hearts in front of you in psp, and seperated.

STEP 2.  get your eyedropper tool, to select the darker color on the outside of the heart you will be working on.


STEP 3.  Find a dark place on the outside edge of the heart and click on it to select that color.  When you get a nice dark shade of the heart color, left click with your mouse, the color will now appear in the color pallet on your right.

We only want the top color box available now, so make sure that the bottom of the two styles boxes is null, meaning no
selection.
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if your bottom styles box has a color or pattern in it now, you  need to left click on that box, and hold, until the little fly box comes out, and select null.
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STEP 4.  Now using your cursor, click on the box of the color you have chosed on the color pallet.  Now your color selection box will open.
The color you have chosen will be in the top box in here, you don't need to change any settings at this point,but we need to drag the new color,over to a custom color box.  So right click on the top box, with the color you are going to use, and hold and drag it over to a custom box, anyone will be fine, and then let up on the mouse,and it will be a new custom color.

Then click ok.

STEP 5.  Now we are going to click on our TEXT TOOL.

STEP 6.  Then touch the inside of the heart with your cursor.  When the text box comes up, click on STANDARD TEXT.  Now only the top color box will be used.  We need to find the color we just made, so left click on the top color box, and find the color you made. Click on the color, and then click ok.  Now we need to select our font style, and size.  
The font I chose is Bookman Oldsyle, SIZE 12, you may have to choose a different size if you do this again with a different font.  But for now, we will use this one.


#1. Scroll until you find BOOMAN OLDSTYLE
#2  select 12 for your font size
#3  make sure FLOATING  is checked
#4  make sure ANTIALIAS is checked
#5  make sure you have selected STANDARD TEXT
CLICK OK

STEP 7  Your text is now on the heart.  If  you need to move it, to center it, then using your cursor, click on the  mover tool before you click on the heart again,

grab the word and center it, you will have the MARCHING ANTS around your letters.

STEP 8  Now we want to apply the setting for the cutout, so go to
EFFECTS/3D EFFECTS/CUTOUT/ and use this setting
OFFSET 1 for both
SHADOW: black
OPACITY: 100
BLUR: 0
FILL INTERIOR: NOT CHECKED
SHADOW COLOR : BLACK
CLICK OK.

STEP 9  Now go back up to EFFECTS/3D EFFECTS/DROP SHADOW
with your text still floating
and use this setting
OFFSET: 1 for both
OPACITY: 100
BLUR: 0
SHADOW: WHITE
CLICK OK
Now we will deselect the marching ants, so right click in your heart.  No more ants
Now that one is done, and you choose the next one you would like to do, think of a different word, and do the same steps on each heart.  You don't need to change the settings for the lettering effects, they will stay the same, but you might have to change font size, if the word won't fit on your heart.



Examples