Can you color word art?

[Jessie226]

And if so, how? I use PSE. Thanks so much! :)

[Margie]

you sure can. i believe it's covered in a tutorial (which would be much better than my explanation). check those out above. if not, someone will hop in to help i'm sure!

[Jessie226]

Got it, thanks! :)

[KariQ]

There is a tutorial? Did I skip right over it? I'm off to see.....

[Jessie226]

Here ya go :)
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/university/tutorials/ps_wordart_color_change.shtml
If you go to tutorials, down near the bottom where it says photoshop tutorials, it's about half way down.

[RobbieR]

You can also use a clipping group to change the color of word art. I often find this easier and don't have to play with Hue / Sat to find the color that I want. You can add your word art, then create a layer above it. Use your eye dropper to pick an exact color from your LO, fill the new layer above your text with the desired color and then do Control G. You now have the text filled with the color from your color layer. After using the Control G action your color thumbnail will be indented. I use this often to change the color of elements and text.

[KariQ]

RobbiR - doesn't what you described only work in photoshop? I printed out a tutorial on this and it worked really really well in photoshop (I have it at work...) but it didn't work in Paint Shop Pro which I have at home and do all my layouts on.......

KariQ

[RobbieR]

I use PSE 4 and it works great; Jessie said she used PSE but I'm not sure what version she has. I can't answer for PSP, don't use that one.

[Pam]

With Paint Shop Pro I use the "Manual Color Correction" -- there is a link in PSP9 but you have to hunt in PSPX into the "Edit > Customize > Unused Commands" and drag this out to a toolbar in order to use it! You can also use the color replace tool - click the color of the wordart with the right mouse button, then edit your materials to choose a color to replace it with. Then (while your wordart is selected or you are on that layer) you can paint over it or just double click to change all. The colorize tool won't work on something that is black or white.