Open a new picture:

Here's a photo : This is the beach between Sete and Agde (in the south of France)...
Note : you can use any picture you'd like to !

1. Open - select the picture in your documents.

Text button

First, open the "text" dialog box using the "Text" button in the tool bar.

The "text" dialog box :

This dialog box is really easy to use, so we won't explain everything about it. Just try...

1. Insert the text : "Pixia"
2. Choose the font, the size, etc.
   Here : we've choosen the font"Cooper Black" - size : 70..
3. Press OK

The text appears in a rectangular selection :

This is the result of the settings you've done in the "text" dialog box. Notice that nothing is still applied on your picture.

At this moment you still can :
- resize the text by moving the handles at the rectangle's corners,
- move the text by clicking in the selection,
- change the text's settings by pressing the "text" button again,
- if you want to stop to paste the text in your picture and the rectangular selection has appeared.. just take another tool : the pen or a button in the tool bar.

Attention : check the active color (or the gradation) in the color panel. It will apply itself to the text when you'll paste it.

Once you're ready to edit the text... Right-click in the selection.

The pasting menu :

When you right-click in the selection, you discover :
- four modes of text's transformation : Expand/ Shrink, Free Transform, Skew and Rotate
- an access to the tone filters
- pasting options...

Make some changes or not, then :

1. Paste as a new layer (or Paste). With Pixia, you shouldn't hesitate to work with several layers. This allows you to cancel or to transform easily a new element you've just included to your canvas.

Standard text :

The white was the selected color in the color panel.

Rectangular gradation :

In the gradation panel (P), a rectangular gradation is activated.

Tone filter :

A blue color is selected. A tone filter from right to left is selected.

Edge :

Select "Edge" in the "text" dialog box at the beginning of the operation. A white color is selected.

Bitmap :

A bitmap is selected in the color panel (P).

Add filter :

Blue color is selected - The filter "Tile" is applied on the text's layer.

To apply a filter :
- Paste the text as a new layer
- Open the filter dialog box
- Choose the filter you want to use and "Apply"

Attention : You must select the right layer ! Its thumbnail is rounded in red in the layers' panel.
When you "Paste as a new layer", the basic layer (the first one) is still activated : clic on the new one to select it.

Let's go create :

...you can imagine whatever you want...
here, the text has been paste two times on two different layers. The white text behind is widen with the filter ["edge" / "widen"]. The other text is a linear gradation from orange to red.
Le filter "Tile" is combined with a tone filter on the colored text (select the right layer !) ...

It's your turn !!