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Hi All

I'm new to digital scrapbooking, so sorry if this is a dumb question!

I'm interested in using templates to speed up creating my layouts..I've read a few tutorials and have worked out how to clip paper/photos to the template, but am unsure of how you work with text when using a template? Do you simply write your text over the top of where it is in the template layout? (I've purchased Valorie Wibbens Topography No. 41 and am trying to figure out the best way to add text to this?

Thanks for any answers you can give me! :helpy

Pen
 
Sounds like you've got the right idea! In Photoshop, I make a layer directly above the text layer, and place my curser where the text example starts, hide the example layer so I can see what I'm typing, then start typing. I delete the example layer when I've got everything situated the way I want it.
 
Thanks very much Tania... just wasn't sure if there was a trick to it that I wasn't aware of!
 
Yep! Enjoy the scrapping - love using templates - it is such a great starting point. There are some templates that actually have the journal boxes as actual text boxes where you can just select you Text Tool (T) and then put your curser in and erase the example text and do your own. That is not always the case though, but I wanted to let you know that that is sometimes the case. You would be able to tell the difference in the layers palette and the layer of text would be marked with a T for text if it is a true text box. Hope that doesn't confuse you more!
 
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