April 10th, 2004 
PLEASE HELP ME ......
hey
ok, well basically after alot of reading up and hours trying to figure it out myself in psp, I've came to the conclusion, I'm badly in need of help. I really hope someone can help me...
ok, well I have a few problems....
1) I want my text to be transparent, my friend told me, that I need to use the multiply blend option, and when I do, it looks like its transparent, but then as soon as I add it to the blend or whatever, it goes white....which isnt what I want at all. I used to apply text straight to my graphic, but now I use a plain white canvas or whatever and then copy and apply but its still not helping me....
2) I dont know how to control the tranparency either, like when I'm using transparency in graphics, I can just about control it but with text I have no clue how. how do you get to choose how transparent you want youre text? do you promote to another layer or something? then go to properties and then mess with the optinacy, cause when I do this with text tho, it goes weird.
3) I also want a black border around the transparent text, and I want to be able to do it for non-transparent text too, but I cant work that out either...
well I can if i'm using black text and I want a white border (non-transparent though), I expand by a pixel, but when I want white text and a black border, the expand keeps it white, when it needs to be black
my friend told me to use a black canvas and then do it, and it would go black, but when I did that, the white kinda merged with the black and the whole thing looked like drippy paint, it wasnt a strong black border it was kinda light in places and weird, then when I added it, it went all blurry.
I have no clue how to achieve one with transparent text.
4) I saw some graphics where the text is like, rainbow of colour, well its probably a gradient, but how do I make text have that effect?....heres an example so you know what I mean, cause if I know how to do that, I should be able to apply the same process to making it any colour right?...
5) I noticed people do a kinda 'glow' around their text, how do you achieve that? (also how do you control how bright etc you want it)...that reminds me, how do you do that for images too, I see people do that with pictures too, and I'm clueless as to how you are meant to...
I would be SO grateful if someone could help me.
thank-you in advance!!!
-kimberley
