Text is often used in scrapbook page design, in journaling, title work, etc. Working with text can be as simple as choosing a font to use and typing out your word, phrase, title, etc. If you want to take it a step further, let me share with you some ideas and tips that are simple and quick and can greatly enhance text.
I peruse Pinterest quite a bit and have a bit of obsession (ok, maybe a lot of obsession LOL) with looking at art journaling, junk journaling, any kind of journaling, actually. I just find all that chaotic messiness and texture so intriguing. One thing that stands out to me quite often is the use of text, whether it is handwritten or digital. I’ve gotten a lot of ideas for how to enhance text. Here are some samples from Pinterest that intrigued me and I’ll explain what ideas they gave me for text manipulation.
Here are a few others.
Some ideas I got from looking at these journal pages were:
- Using doodles, brushes, elements to accent, draw emphasis, to the text.
- Combine different text styles i.e. san serif, serif, script, decorative.
- Use more than one alignment i.e. horizontal and vertical alignment.
- Change size and spacing of text.
- Frame text.
- Change perspective by rotating, slanting, warping, etc.
- Blending/fading text into background.
- Overlay text on top of other text, brush work, etc.
- Highlight/frame with paint.
Directing attention to the text with doodles, brushes, elements, etc can be a quick and simple addition to your layout. Some of my fave products to use include stitches, small elements (Valorie Wibbens’ Sprinkles are perfect for this). Here’s her most recent Sprinkles release.
I get most of my ideas from Pinterest but looking through magazines, especially the ads, can provide lots of ideas too. Sometimes it’s the little things that really grab your attention, like selecting one word or a phrase and repeating it at various spots on the page, or selecting one word and changing the color or size, as I did in my sample page (shown below). A fave manipulation I often do is to rasterize the text layer, select with lasso tool, right click in text layer and select “layer via copy” to put selected text in its own layer (in Photoshop), then click Control + V (shortcut for move) so that you can now move the selected text around your page.
In my sample page I did this a few times, warping and moving text to follow the doodles. I recolored and changed the line spacing.
Hope my suggestions for manipulating text inspire you to try some of these ideas and maybe as you peruse Pinterest and magazines you’ll come up with some other ideas too! Have fun!
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