Title are one of the most important aspects of your layout! You can summarize your theme in just a few words and have it really pop off your layout! I'm going to teach you a few title tricks today!
If you are working with a kit that doesn't have an alpha or if the alpha doesn't quite do what you are wanting to do, you can create your own Title out of your favorite paper in the kit.
First, let's open up our layout in Pixlr:
I also pulled up a copy of the template we are working with. See where the Title is placed here? We are going to create a big chunky Title like that-to replace it.
First, decide what you want your title to be. I'm going to keep it simple and use the word Spring.
When you click on the little A on the left hand side of your screen (with the other tool options), it will give you a text box. Because we want each letter on its own layer, you are only going to type one letter at a time. I put the letter "s" and then changed the font to one that was a chunky one. This is one I bought and added, but there are plenty of standard ones that you can use. I made the size, as large as it would go, but as you can see, it doesn't go very big. We'll change that next. I left the style and color as it is because we are going to clip with paper, so it doesn't matter what color the letters are in.
Next, you are going to click on that layer over in your layer palette (the one with the big A on it), right click and choose the option Rastersize Layer. Then click on Edit, up top, and choose Free Transform. This will put a little box around your letter. Remember to use the shift button and hold the little arrow as you stretch the letter.
I stretched mine out to this size:
Now we're going to "open layer as image" just like we did with the other template pieces. Clip it and add a shadow. It will look like this:
Now repeat for each letter in the word. It can be a little labor intensive, but so worth it when you are able to move the letter around to give a clustered title.
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