Making Curved Text

Now that we've got our text curved, it's still got that white edge and it looks a bit silly.  We don't need the edge any more so let's get rid of it!  :o)

First we need to put the text on it's own layer, so go to "Selections" and down to "Promote to layer"

You'll notice that the marching ants have disappeared from around your text and your white edge isn't selected any more.  That's cool - we want it to be like that :o)

Now we need to let PSP know that we want to delete the white edge, so select your mover tool and just single left click somewhere on your white edge - be careful not to move anything... if you do, just hit "undo" until it goes back to the right place and try again.

When you've clicked on your white edge, just hit the "delete" key on your keyboard and your white edge will vanish!  :o)

Now we need to put everything together so that it can't move about, so go to "Layers" then down to "Merge" and across to "Merge Visible".  It's important that you choose this one and not the one that flattens it 'cos we don't want PSP to choose the background for us - that's *our* job!  :o)

That's all there is to it!  :o)

I've added a background and frame to mine... to add a background to yours too, go to "Layers" then "New Raster Layer" (click on OK) and we need to tell PSP that the background goes underneath our image, so go to "Layers" then down to "Arrange" and across to "Send To Bottom"

Now you can add whichever colours, textures, gradients, patterns, frames etc you would like to add.  This is what mine looks like:

Now that you now how to do it... try it with different shapes - not just circles and ovals!  What does the text look like on a square?  How about a star?  Have a bit of a play around and see what you can come up with!  :o)