Inspirational Poster

Adding Text to Images in Photoshop

FIRST find a stock picture from google search (or if you have your own) and open it in Photoshop.

NOW Adding Text...

Adding text, a quote or saying is easy in Photoshop and there’s a few tweaks that can make it a lot easier too.

To add text simply click the Text Tool, click on the image and start typing.

What you might find though is that your text goes off of the screen as there is no carriage return when using this technique.

To push the text to a new line you’ll need to decide where the carriage returns (break in line) should be and add them manually.

Text Boxes

To add text that’s constrained to an area use the Text tool again, but this time click and drag a box out.

Once you release the mouse a box remains with a flashing text cursor. Typing here constrains the text and will wrap around to the shape.

Adding Colour Bars Behind The Text

To really make your text stand out its good to have a coloured background to the text. Select the layer below your text then click the Rectangle Shape tool.

Click and drag out a rectangle that covers the first line of text (it’ll be on a new layer);

Don’t draw anymore. Instead choose the move tool and then press Alt key and click and drag down the box you just made. You’ll get a double arrow to indicate you’re making a copy of the layer.

Do this again until you have enough bars for your lines of text. Don’t worry about getting them equally apart at the moment, we’ll get Photoshop to do that.

Space Out The Bars

For this technique the top and bottom bars need to be properly aligned. If you’re familiar with selections and the Align part of the Move tool you may prefer to work that way. Here though I’m keeping it simple and working by eye.

With the bars made, and the top and bottom bars positioned correctly I can select the top bar in the Layers Panel and the Shift and click the bottom bottom bar. This selects them all.

Select the Move tool and then from the contextual menu click the button to Distribute Vertical Centers.

Because the text is equally separated the bars and text should line up perfectly!

Other tips:

Pick colours from the image for the text and / or bars.

Swap bars for solid blocks or gradients.

Be wary of ‘handwritten’ fonts, they can be difficult to read.

If you quote someone, make sure you attribute it to them!

Step 1: Follow the Tutorial to create your inspirational poster. These need to be done to the best of your ability and make sure your choice has interesting message to say. Remember it can be your own words or a quote or lyrics, ect. Just make sure you give writer the credit.

Step 2: Save to the google drive or a flashdrive. NOT to the desktop. If it is lost you must restart. No exceptions!

Step 3: Submit to the Google classroom when finished. Please submit assignments to correct sections. I can not move them.

~~~See Rubric for how they will be graded~~~

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