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Lesson 3:   Creating a Watermark to apply to a photo



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Mask
  
Finished


Before proceeding with this lesson, review Lesson 1 first.


Lesson 3: Creating a Watermark

  1. Load PhotoELF's Editor
  2. Look in the Fun Stuff menu and select New Image (blank)
  3. Select a size of 800 x 600 pixels and a white background color and click OK
  4. Look in the View menu and select: Shapes and Text
  5. This time, instead of shapes, you will add Text to the black image
  6. Add some Text to the image

    • Make the text either black or a shade of grey
    • If it is black, it will be a solid color when done
    • If it is grey, it will be semi-transparent
    • If grey, the closer to black it is, the more opaque
    • If grey, the closer to white it is, the more transparent

  7. You should now be looking at something like this:



  8. You may position the text anywhere you like
  9. When ready, look in the FILE menu and select: Save as Mask
  10. Done
  11. Close the Editor and load a photo and test your new mask.

Learn how to make Diagonal Text


Next Lesson: Lesson 4: Mask Behavior



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