Create a new transparent image, fill with beige background, and add texture (I used Texturizer plug-in set on Canvas)
Open your photographs - the Arch, Eiffel Tower and People
Select a portion of the Arch, Colorize to sepia tint (Hue 22, Saturation 4 approximately) and add to your transparent image as a layer, reducing opacity to around 36
Select a portion of the Eiffel Tower, Colorize to sepia tint, and add as layer to the image, choosing the Layer Dissolve feature
Add a layer, and add text, using CAC Shishoni Font in white; lower the opacity (I used Italian text since I had it handy, but you can copy and paste your text into a translation program, choose French, and then paste back into the graphics program)
Add photo, matting with dark red, and add drop shadows to both
Add eyelets
Add label holder and text behind it
Prepare "Paris" title (see filled text effects) and add to the top
For a change, I Colorized the entire layout to a blue shade, then selected just the photograph. I Colorized that to a grey image for contrast.
Open a New Image. (the size depends on the finished size you need. It is always better to make it larger than you think, since you can reduce the size without any distortion, while you cannot make things much larger without them becoming fuzzy.
Fill with the color of your choice (Click the Fill tool, make your foreground the color you want, and left click once on your new image.)
Add a layer (Layers > New Raster Layer)
Now open the image you want to fill your text with (I'm using some lace paper that I created digitally).
Click your Text Tool. Choose the font you want (I'm using Broadway), the size you want (mine is 36 point), and make sure Create As Selection is choosen.
Click once on your "fill" image and you will see an outline of your text with "marching ants" around it. (Image 1)
Copy that selection (Ctrl+C or Edit > Copy)
Paste the selection into your New Image (the one you filled with the color of choice) (Ctrl+V, or Edit > Paste)
Add a drop shadow (Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow), using these settings
(Image 2)
Open a New Image and fill with the background color of your choice
Click your Text Tool. Choose the font you want (I'm using Arial Black), the size you want (mine is 36 point), and make sure Create As Vector is choosen. Set your foreground color to black and your background color to none (this will give you an outline of your letter)
Click once on your New Image and your outline will appear with the Vector box around it. Click on the center to move the text into the proper place (Image 1)
Click the Magic Wand tool and click on the inside of the first letter. Hold down the Shift key, and click on the inside of each of the remaining letters. (This will select the inside of each letter so you can fill it with your image)
Open the image you want to use as a fill (the image I choose was a very large map and the image was not as clear as I wanted when I filled my text, so I selected just a portion of my map to use)
Choose the selection tool and draw a rectangle around the portion you want. Copy (Ctrl+C) and Paste as a New Image (Ctrl+V) (Image 2)
In the box under your foreground color, there are three choices - solid color, gradient, and pattern (1). Click the pattern, then double-click in the foreground box to open the pattern dialog box. There is an image in the Current Pattern Box and a small arrow to the right - click the arrow to display the list of patterns.
All the images that you have open on your screen are available to be used as patterns. You will notice that my map is Image 19 (2), and there is an Image 19 available in the pattern box (2a). Click the Image 19 to select that pattern and click the OK button. (If your pattern is too large, you can change the size by reducing the Scale (3) (Image 3)
Open your Layer Pallette and click on your Background Layer to make it active (you should have two layers - your background layer with the solid background, and a vector layer with your text)(Image 4)
Click your Fill Tool, make sure your Foreground is set as the pattern, and click once inside any of the letters to fill all the letters with the pattern
Add a drop shadow (see Item 9 in the top section of this article). A dialog box may come up saying "The target must be promoted to a full layer." This is because the text is still on a vector layer and must be changed to a raster layer to add a drop shadow. Click the OK button.
Hit Ctrl+D to Deselect the text and your image is complete. (Image 5)
Open a New Image. (the size depends on the finished size you need. It is always better to make it larger than you think, since you can reduce the size without any distortion, while you cannot make things much larger without them becoming fuzzy.
Click the Text tool. Set your BACKGROUND to the color you want the outline to be. Choose NONE for the FOREGROUND. Choose the JuneBug font, and type text using LOWER-CASE letters. I used size 48, but again, that will depend on your finished size. Click OK to place the text on your image, and move it into place. (I place text as "Floating" but if you use "Vector," you will need to promote the layer to "Raster.")
Choose your Magic Wand, click in one open letter to select it, hold down the SHIFT key, and click in all the other letters. They should all have the "marching ants" (Image 1)
Choose Selections Menu, Modify, Expand and enter 1. (This will expand the selection into the outline just a little and prevent any white spaces showing between the letters and the outline). Click OK. (Image 2)
Choose Selections Menu, Invert. The "marching ants" are now around the outside of your image. Your letters still have the "ants" around them, but by inverting the selection, you've actually selected everything BUT your letters. You'll see why this is needed shortly.
Open the photos you want to use. Make copies, and resize them so they will fit into the letters. (If you're not sure if they'll fit, copy and paste them into your image. If they are too large, you can resize and try again. You can hold down CTLR Key and hit the Z key (this will undo any function) which will remove the photos from your image.)
Choose the first photo. Copy (CTL+C) the photo and Paste it into your image as a new layer (CTL+L).
Open your Layer Pallette and drag the new layer with the photo on it BELOW the layer with the text. (Image 3)
Then choose the MOVE tool and move the photo around behind the letters until it is in the position you want. (I have this aligned so that Lady Di's face shows through the "P".)
Choose your ERASER Tool and erase all of the excess image. Because only the background is selected, you can erase right over your letter and only the image outside the letter will be erased. (Image 4)
However, you will note that while all the extra image is removed from the background, where the image overlapped into the second letter "E," it is still visible and needs to be removed.
Choose Selections Menu, Invert. Now you can erase the image in the letter E. Be careful not to move the eraser into the first letter as it will erase that image also. You can see from the picture to the right that only the image filling the letter "P" is left. And you are ready to add your next picture. (Image 5)
Make sure you choose Selections Menu, Invert, before adding your next image.
Just repeat numbers 7 - 12 for each photo you want to add. Quick steps are as follows:
Make sure Selection "ants" are around the entire image
Paste photo as a new layer (it should automatically go below the text layer, which needs to stay on top. If it doesn't, move it below that layer).
MOVE photo into place
ERASE background
INVERT selection and erase any extraneous image in any other letter
When all the letters are filled, Deselect the "ants" (CTL+D)
Open your Layer Pallette and click on the layer with the text (should be the top layer)
