This is a 5X7 photo work space. Whatever size you use set your resolution high to 250 or 300.
What you need to do is this.
Once you set your background and your frame, you need to click on the EDIT tab. It is the orange one all the way to the left under the top bar that contains the close (x) icon.
You will now need to make a new layer. To do that you click on the box that looks like it has a corner of a page lifting. It is located in the layers pallet under the word normal.
By default Elements will place your new layer at the top of any selected layer.
Now this is where you will place your headline.
Try to follow it is easy.
First click the T for text over on the left in the tool box. You will have a text bar appear. Don't worry about where it shows up we will move the text later.
Type the word you want. In mine I used "Welcome".
Type the word and size it by preselecting the proper font size of by dragging the handles. (those are the little boxes). You can also move it now by using the section tool located in the top left corner of the tool box.
Now highlight your text. We need to give it that great Indy shape.
At the top you will see the text options bar. this will include the font size and color similar to what word would be like. In that bar is a distorted T with a curves arrow under it. That is the text warp tool click on that and a dialog box will open up. By default the radio button should have selected horizontal that is what you want. at the top will be a drop down menu that will read
Style>none. Drop that down and select arch.
Now at this point it will look nothing like the Indy logo but trust me it will. I will give you the slider settings to get you in the ball park but you may have to tweak them yourself because your text may not be the exact same size as mine and that will effect the outcome.
set:
Bend +11
Horizontal Distortion -30
Vertical Distortion +1
Now it should look right, now we need to add the color.
Select the gradient tool. It is in the left side tool box under the brush. It is a box that fades from yellow to blue. One you activate the tool the top bar will show your gradient on the left and the word EDIT will be boxed next to it. hit the edit box. A dialogue box will open up and you will now select your gradient. To start click on the black to white pattern at the top that do not use the checkered pattern. It has to be the solid black to solid white. Now to change the color, click on the small back box on the lower left under the gradient. The color will appear in the bottom color selector. Click the color selector box and a color pallet will appear, select orange click OK. Click the white box at the right and repeat but this time select yellow. If you want to add a little white in the middle simply double click under the black diamond in the center of the gradient. this will add another color and you can repeat the selection processes and choose white.
You will see that when you click on the color box you can move them to adjust the amount of the color. Slide you yellow and orange in toward the white. You don't want has much white as orange and yellow.
Click OK and your gradient box will close and you pattern will now appear at the top bar over on the left.
Now we need to color our Indy letters.
Over in the layers pallet on the right you will see each layer. At the top should be your Indy letters and the background should be checkerboard.
Put the cursor over the checkerboard. Hold down the control key (ctrl) the little hand will now have a box in it. While holding the ctrl key and without moving the cursor lest click once.
You should now have marching ants around you text.
(When you start the next step a box will pop up asking you if you want to simplify the layer. Yes you do click yes or OK.)
You should still have the gradient tool on, put the cursor at the top of the word>hold the shift key>left click and hold>and drag down to the bottom of the text>let go of the mouse button. The text is now colored.
The marching ants will still be there so we can now add the black out line.
select Edit at the top bar and select stroke from the drop-down. a dialog box will pop up. set your stroke around 12 pixels. for location choose outside.
Now you can turn off your ants. At the top bar click select>deselect.
Now you can add a drop shadow if you like you will find it over in the layer styles. It is the box above where the layers are displayed.
Now to add the rest of the text make another layer and just add your simple text. You can then re-size and move it without effecting the other elements in your work.
post when you get stuck and I will get you through it.
This is easy once you have done it.
when your done with this we will move on to more advanced drawing techniques like this TV. Made compleatly from scatch
I've never bothered getting something that would allow me to do that, I've just adapted and used the PSE Organizer.
