A few days ago in this blog we talked about using Spring Fonts to dress up digital scrapbooking pages. See this article: Use Spring Fonts for your Digital Scrapbooking Projects!! See Where you can get 3 FREE Fonts!
One of the things we mentioned in that article was colorizing your font and text to create more dramatic digital scrapbooking projects. This 
allows for coloring the parts of the text with different colors!!
So you don’t just have a font that is only one color!!
Today we are going to talk about How to Add Multi-Colors when using certain fonts and creating dramatic text for your next digital scrapbooking project!
How to Add Multi-Colors to Text!!!
How to Fill in a Font with Color in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements
(Originally posted 6/4/2010 by Cheri Barlow)
Sometimes when we are digitally scrapbooking we find a fun font to use that has some space in it.
This works mainly when a font has some extra space inside the letters or in any parts of the designs around the letters that include empty space.
That space can quickly be colored to enhance our design if you follow these easy steps.
Eight Easy Steps to Color the Extra Space in some Fonts:
Step 1: Open up your digital scrapbooking project in Photoshop Elements or Photoshop.
Note: I will be illustrating these steps in Elements but you can easily do these same steps in Photoshop too!
Step 2: Next select the Text Tool in either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Pick a font that has some space in it – for this example my computer had a font called BalloonEFDropShadow (#1). You can see that it has space (#2) within the font that would be nice to color.
Take a look at this font sample – see the space in the lettering? This will be nice for my scrap project.
You may or may not have this font on your computer, so look for any font that has some space in it if you want to follow along.
Step 3: Set the size and other options for this font, like size, color and other options.
Step 4: Once the option are set then draw out your type box and type in your text.
Step 5: Next go to the layer panel and right-click on the text layer in Photoshop Elements then select Simplify Layer
Note: in Photoshop you need to do something slightly different. First, go to the layer panel and right-click on the text layer, and then select Rasterize Type
Special Note for both Photoshop or Elements Users: Make sure you are done editing the text before doing this step, as it will be not be editable as text after this step!
Step 6: Pick a Color to fill font. Go to the color picker and select a color you would like to fill your font with.
Step 7: Select the Paint Bucket tool and pour the color into all the spaces in the font you want filled.
Continue till you have all the spaces in the font filled
Step 8: Add layer styles if you want to text for more dramatic effects. Here I added a drop shadow.
An alternative to filling all the space in the font is to select only a few areas in the font to fill like the example below in Photoshop.
However when you decide to fill in your font spaces it could make your design more interesting than just leaving them blank!
See the font before we colored the spaces
See the font after we colored the spaces
You can see that this can add quite a bit of design to your digital scrapbooking project to add color to the space in a font
Step 8: Add layer styles to your filled text for more dramatic effects. In the image below I added a drop shadow to make the text pop on the page!
Now we are done and can enjoy our digital scrapbooking page!
If you have a font that has some space in it – then try this easy way to make it look more fun!
Enjoy!
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