You're reading from Unlock Your Creativity with Photopea Edit and retouch images, and create striking text and designs with the free online software

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801816649

Length 478 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Image Editing

Author (1):

Michael Burton

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Started With Photopea

2. Chapter 1: Taking Your Design and Editing to the Next Level with Photopea FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Creating and Working with Image Editing Documents in Photopea

4. Chapter 3: Navigating and Utilizing the Workspace

5. Chapter 4: Layer Management: Creating, Organizing, and Applying Advanced Features

6. Chapter 5: Understanding Selection Fundamentals

7. Part 2: Digital Imaging, Design Techniques, and Other Software

8. Chapter 6: Color Theory and Application

9. Chapter 7: Using and Creating Brushes

10. Chapter 8: Photo Retouching Techniques

11. Chapter 9: Exploring Advanced Image Compositing Techniques

12. Chapter 10: Text Fundamentals and Styling in Photopea

13. Chapter 11: Pre-Designed Templates, Extra Effects, and Features Overview

14. Part 3: Drawing Figures, Creating a Logo, and Other Features

15. Chapter 12: Advanced Color Techniques

16. Chapter 13: Bonus: How to Draw and Paint a Figure and Character

17. Chapter 14: Bonus: How to Create a Logo

18. Chapter 15: Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices

19. Index

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Text Fundamentals and Styling in Photopea

In this chapter, we will explore the fundamentals of text, fonts, and typography. In addition, we will learn how to use the Type Tool for artistic text, warped and shaped text, and body text for paragraphs.

Body text often uses character styles for adjusting text size, color, shape, and so on. Body text (paragraph) styles involve things such as kerning, paragraph spacing, margins, applying effects to text, and so on.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to differentiate between serif and sans serif fonts and will have gained an understanding of historical key points concerning fonts and how fonts have evolved over the years. In addition, you will be able to select fonts and style them to reflect or complement a business, brand, and mood for a logo, design, and page layout.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: