• Lesson Index:
• Overview
• Layout
• Getting Started
• Setting Colors
• Draw Layout
• Enhance Photo
• Import Image
• Gradients & Masks
• Components
• Making the Header
• Smudge Tool
• Write Title
• Navigation Bar
• Footer
• Finishing
• Slicing
• Export
• Export Options

Writing Out Our Title

Continuing from our last lesson...

Use the Text tool to type out our header with the property setting shown. I used a more distinctive font called Black Chancery. You can use any other font if you like.

Note that in our Properties window, we have No Anti-Alias set (see above picture). And if we zoom in closer, we see...

If we switch to Smooth Anti-Alias, the text will blend better with the background.

Our text is very flat. Spruce up our title with a drop shadow by clicking the plus button under Effects for the property of our text and selecting Shadow and Glow -> Drop Shadow.

Play around with the setting to find one that you like. I set mine to be ...

It should be subtle, just enough to give a bit of dimension to the text.

To center our title across our page, select the title and center align it to the canvas by menu Windows -> Align.

Next

In the next lesson, we will create our navigation bar.