Happy Digital Scrapbooking Day everyone! I know everyone is busy scouting out sales, so I have a quick tip, but oh so useful! I am going to show you how to easily space the text in your fonts to fill a journaling prompt.
ETA: I am using Photoshop CS2
When I first started digital scrapbooking I kept finding templates that had lines in them meant for journaling, but they were spaced further apart than the lines of my text, so I kept doing each line individually and that takes a lot of time! When I discovered this trick, I was so happy! I’ll be using a journaling sheet created by Angie Hinksman for one of the sessions of our first free weekend workshop this weekend:
I prefer to have my text, especially when I’m journaling, inside a text box so I can let the ends of the lines automatically wrap around instead of having to hit enter everytime I want a new line. The problem is that as you can see above, my lines of text don’t line up with the lines of the journaling paper. To fix this, while editting your text, click on the “ Toggle the Character and Paragraph palettes” icon:
This will bring up this form:
On this form all you have to do is adjusting the “leading” until the lines of your journaling, line up with the lines of your journal box are you’re done!
I hope you enjoy this tip and the rest of you Digital Scrapbooking Day!
Karen
November 7th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve created the individual text boxes for each & every line! Thank you … thank you … thank you for this tip – you’re my absolute hero for sharing this one!
Susan.
November 7th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Oh, this is so cool. I, too, have been creating individual text lines and moving and adjusting, and moving and adjusting, and moving and adjusting….. LOL!!! Thank you for the awesome tutorial.
November 7th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
OK – I’m absolutely thrilled that you shared this insite…what program are you using?
November 7th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
wow love this tip! I will be sure to use it
November 8th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Thank you for your timely tip, Karen! I had no idea how to do this and have been frustrated so many times trying to get my text lined up without tons of tedious work. Have a lovely day!
November 8th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Thanks for sharing this tip Karen!!
November 8th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
I’m use Photoshop CS2 for my software. Glad you guys liked this! That’s exactly how I felt when I learned this tip! I felt like dancing in the streets!