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Jennifer Vidmar
Hello everyone:) I'm back to ask more questions to help my students! I just want to thank you again for allowing me to pick your brains each and every time.
I'm planning a project for my 8th graders where they are going to be tracing a silhouette of themselves and adding a story about themselves inside the silhouette using the text tool. How do I add text in there and make it fit inside the shape automatically like it would if we were to draw a shape from the quick shape tool and adding shape text?
Thank you again for your help!
Just in case you'd like to see what my 7th graders did, go here:)
www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=167690
Sincerely,
samantha
12:11PM, 27 January 2009 PDT(permalink)
I have just tried it Samantha but it's not too clever at this kind of thing, there is no hyphenation tools as such (that I can find) it may be better to fit square boxes over the silhouette shapes and colour the fill to black after the text is fitted to your students liking, obviously the text will have to be white or some other bright colour
You can see from this effort it isn't that easy to just fill text into a shape, the formatting is all over the place
Hope this helps a little bit
Sean (PP)
ages ago(permalink)
Hi Sam nice to hear from you again, I keep an eye on your stream and love what you do. This is the first time I have done this, it would be nice if the text went right to the edges of the shape and I found keeping the text small helps and keeping the length of single words stops it looking a bit disjointed.
Any way here we go, I used quick shapes for my body. Big bold shapes seem to work best. Things like fingers and feet do not get filled with text very well. I used the "add" button to join the shapes but only 2 shapes at a time.
To fill with text, click your shape then click the text tool and off you go. There are controls for reducing/enlarging the text size and for changing the justification.
Hope this helps.
You do so much good work Sam for children's charities, if you could use DrawPlus X2, I will be pleased to mail you a free copy courtesy of SUGs. Flickr me if you are interested.
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indiandy08 edited this topic ages ago.
Hi
Sam - the work done by your students is just brilliant. I can pick out some of the influences in there. Van Gogh is definitely one. They have talent.
I just got a mailing fhrough the post for Clipper fair trade tea only yesterday. They had delightful graphics of teapots with text in. There are some on their website here: www.clipper-teas.com/, but not as charming as the one in the mailing.
What struck me was how ell the designer had used the text size and bold/italics to get the effect. Once you understand how to do it (and I haven't a clue myself yet) I think the design aspect plays a big part in the finished item. The font sizes need to fit the shape of the container if you get what I mean.
Haven't tried this but I think it should work. Try the free software I mentioned in a previous thread (here : www.flickr.com/groups/serifusers/discuss/72157612755631756/), take a screenshot of the result, use it as the bottom layer then draw your shape on top and crop to the shape.
Have fun
RG
ages ago(permalink)
I've discovered that you can use aNDy's method with your own drawn shapes - you don't have to use the filled shapes that come with the program. Basically just select the object, click in it and start typing. Don't select it and then select the text tool, as this then deselects the shape.
It's actually described in the program's Help file under 'Creating text effects and Logos'. It says " To flow text in a shape:
Select a shape (QuickShape or your own shape) and choose the Text Tool. Click within the bounding area of the shape and start typing." It works quite well.
RG :-)
ages ago(permalink)
Sorry mate I think that was my fault jumping in there. I think I have seen a way of getting text to follow an outline of a shape, freehand or quick. I know it is not what Sam was looking for but it might make a good alternative but I can not see how it is done.
ages ago(permalink)
Hi RG
I found DP8 on my old laptop and tried as you did using what I knew Samantha had to play with - it's hard going trying to backtrack on software as it is
Somehow I think the students may be better printing off the silhouettes and hand writing their individual tales...It would look more individual done that way and it would most likely be quicker..:>)
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seanyriley45 (a group admin) edited this topic ages ago.
First things first, because of the discussions on copyright, this is one of 1000s of royalty free images you can find on Microsoft clipart. A great resource that is sometimes overlooked.
Fairly straight forward treatment but remember to "combine" the two outlines (pink lines) so you can fill with solid colour but leave an aperture to see the text.
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indiandy08 edited this topic ages ago.
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