LumaPix :: FotoFusion
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Adding text to the canvas (all users)
Click on any empty area on or outside the canvas. An Image Toolbox will appear -- select the Text option, to add a text frame to the canvas and open the Text Editor.
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Hold the T-key on your keyboard while dragging a marquee shape roughly the same size as your finished text, and double-click on the resulting text frame to launch the Text Editor.
A new text frame will read "Double Click to Change" until you add your own text.
In the Enhanced and Extreme versions of FotoFusion, you can add text attached to a specific frame on the canvas.
This means that if you move the frame, the text moves with it. Using text-on-frames also allows you to use information about the particular image as text.
Select the frame that will "own" the text frame. The image toolbox will open.
Click the Text option, just as above, which will create a new text frame attached to the image frame.
The text frame will move and rotate with the 'parent' frame, although it can be independently sized and positioned. This is useful for creating labels for individual pictures and contact sheets or other layouts.
Note that if you have multiple frames selected when you click the 'add text' button, all frames will receive text a text frame.
When a text frame on your canvas is selected, the Text toolbox will appear:
The T icon allows you to launch the Text Editor, to apply new attributes and edit your text.
If your text frame contains your own text (ie. it does not say
Drag on the T icon to dynamically change the frame size; if your text is set to "resize to fit," your font size will grow or shrink accordingly. Hold Ctrl on your keyboard and drag on this icon to dynamically change the outline width.
To dynamically change the shadow of your text, drag on the shadow portion of this icon. To learn more about shadow options, consult the Shadow Editor section of this manual.
The Arrange icon works in the same manner as the icon on the Frame toolbox. Consult the Arrange and Distributing Frames section of this manual to learn more.
Clicking firmly on the T icon will launch the Text Editor. There are five main areas where you can change your text properties.
1) Text Content: to set the characters that will appear on the canvas
2) Font attributes: to change the font, and add bold, italic, strikeout and underline.
3) Alignment and spacing options: to justify the text and alter the character and line spacing.
4) Text and Outline appearance: to change the color, opacity and other attribute of the text's appearance.
5) Matte options: to apply a matte to the text, or transform the text into a matte (Enhanced, Extreme only).
6) Ligature controls: Certain Open type fonts will have higher level features to specify how particular character sets will be displayed. Most fonts will not have the ability to use this feature. |
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