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| Four Easy Projects With Layers |
Project 3: Customize Photos with Word Balloons |
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 Personalize any photograph with fun messages and inside jokes that will keep your family smiling.
FotoFinish SUITE comes with hundreds of
clip art images including a series of word balloons you can easily add
to customize any image.
1. Open a photograph.
 2. In the FotoFinish Explorer find the Word Balloon library. It's located under Stock Graphics->
Clip Art->Word Balloons. You can also search for "word balloon" using the search bar at the
top of the Explorer panel.
The library will be marked with bold type and a pair of binoculars.
3. Open the library by double-clicking on it. The library window will float above your work area or you can choose to dock
it anywhere on your screen by dragging the album’s title bar (the blue bar at the top) over the program window.
4. Create a new layer for your image (Image menu->Layers->Add Layer).
5. Drag and drop a word balloon into the new layer. Click down on your chosen word balloon in the library and without
letting go of the mouse move over the image. Let go of the mouse to drop the word balloon onto your project.
6. Resize the balloon to fit your image. Drag the adjustment handles located around the balloon to make it smaller or bigger.
7. Rotate the balloon using its rotation handle (a circle located next to the object's middle adjustment handle on the right-hand side). Grab it and
without letting go of the mouse twist the balloon around.
8. Optional: To help the word balloon subtly blend in with the rest of the photograph, adjust its opacity using the
layer tab's opacity slider.
9. Add text on a new layer (Image menu->Layers->Add Layer).
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Rotate it using its rotation handle
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