Create Curved Text

15.  Now it is time to add your text. In your Material Palette, set your foreground color to #2e0001 and your background color to #d1b1b6.

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16. Open your font - Monotype Corsiva. Remember, you can open the font and minimize and it will be available in your PSP fonts.  Use these settings.  Make sure that you have your text alignment to Center.

17.  Select your text tool  

18.  Place your text tool at about the same area that I have mine. When you hover over the ellipse, make sure that you see the symbol that looks like an A with a rounded circle.
 

This is very important or your text will not curve.When you see the A with the rounded circle, click and this will place your text at this place after you enter your name in the text box

19.  After you have your text placed, go to the toolbar - Selections - Select None

20.  Let's look at our Layer palette. Make sure that you have clicked the + sign to the Vector 1
 layer to expand it and see the layers.

21. Click on the Eye image next to the Ellipse          
When you click on the eye, it will make it invisible. See the red mark now at the eye?

Look at your image. The ellipse that we followed to get our curved text is gone.

We are almost finished. But we need to get rid of all those layers.

22.  Go to Layers  - Merge - Merge Visible

23.  Let's resize our image.  Go to Image - Resize.  This gives us a lot of information about our image.

24. Use my settings in the Width and Height (323 x 287) Pixels. Our Image was 450 x 400. This gave us a larger canvas in which to work.

25.  Before you save your image, you might want to add a border to it.

26.  Save your image as a .jpeg.  Remember how?  Go to File - Export - JPEG Optimizer and save in your folder in My Documents.