{Tutorial Thursday} Recoloring word art

This week I released a couple products…
Write It: Spring Sentiments Digital Stamps by Krisi's Kreations
Daily Life: Daily Border Journalers by Krisi's Kreations
and
Shaped Cards {Spring} by Krisi's Kreations

Yep – three things this week – check back tomorrow to see them in action!

I want to show & tell you how to recolor the word art.

If you want to recolor the entire PNG file here is one way that you can do that (there are multiple methods to do this – but this is the way I do it).

In PSE and Photoshop -

Open the file you want to change – it is a PNG file.

Choose the color you want to change it to (using your color picker).

Go to Edit > Fill Layer. Choose a color (a drop-down menu gives you options for color, foreground color, background color, etc). You must have Preserve Transparency checked to
recolor just the word art not the entire layer.

In Microsoft  WORD
Open the file – Insert > Picture > From File to open the .png file.

With the word art selected go to Format > Picture. From the menu on the left select Picture. Find the drop-down menu called Recolor under Image Control. Select the color you want and click ok.

But… what if you want to recolor the word art in two different colors? You can do it in PSE & Photoshop.

You need to get the different parts on different layers so to do that, select the first word you want different. You can use the lasso tool or the box selection tool.

Once you have the selection around the word(s) you want follow the directions above -

Go to Edit > Fill Layer. Choose a color (a drop-down menu gives you options for color, foreground color, background color, etc). You must have Preserve Transparency checked to
recolor just the word art not the entire layer.

Here is a beautiful example from Cathy that shows the word art in two different colors.

Try it and and show us what you create – this works for both hybrid projects and layouts. Link us up and show us what you created!

See you tomorrow!