How Use a Pattern to Fill Text

Either drag the lavender polka dotted background off the page and into PSP or save it to your computer and then open it up in PSP.

polka dot background

Minimize the polka dotted background.

The areas we will be working with are:

1. Flood Fill Tool
2. Layers
3. Foreground Properties
4. Background Properties
5. Text Tool

work area

Let's Get Started

Open a new Canvas 500X350
Choose: Raster Background
Resolution: 72 dpi Color Depth 16 million Colors (24 bit)
click OK

Flood Fill with White. (see area 1 on the work station picture)

Add New a New Layer (see area 2 on the work station picture)

to do that:
Click on the word Layer (across the top)
Choose New Layer.

Now go to your top color square( Foreground Properties) See area 3 on the work station

click the square and pick a color you would like to have your text outlined in.

The example uses 8e5dcb.

Click OK

Now go to the bottom color square( background properties)

Left click on the bottom color square a new window will open up.

It will have 3 word tabs.
They will read:
Color
Gradient
Pattern

Click on the Pattern tab.

materials pattern window 1

Then click on tiny arrow next to the color picture that appears so you can see the drop down menu. There will be lots of patterns there.

materials palatte 2

Go find the lavender polka dot pattern. To find the pattern you Usually you have to scroll all the way up to the top, but not always. Now click on your Polka Dotted Pattern.

Now that we have choosen the pattern we want click the text button (It looks like an A) See area 5 in work area picture

You can choose any font you would like. It works best if you choose a wide font.

The example uses:

Created as: Floating
Font: Chick
Size: 120
Stroke 1.5

Here is my finished text:

cool text picture