Sign Making with a Computer Page 3

Updated 12/22/2003

You can only add text after you zoom back out.  After doing that, I clicked on the text button on the toolbar, highlighted where the text was going to go, changed the font to TGIFriday, and typed away.  I also made sure that the text box is transparent.  It is one of the options that is part of the toolbar.

I finished adding the remaining lettering the same way.

At this point, the image is done for the sign.  Now i need to create the sign, add the image, and additional text. The first thing I did was open a new Paint session. Then, by selecting "Edit" and "Paste From", I then select the image of the newly created paint can. The next step was to resize the image, not the paint can, but the image for the entire sign.  in this case, I knew that the horizontal and vertical dimensions would be.  So, from the menu bar, select "Image" followed by "Attributes" to get the following screen: