Saying I love You! in many Languages!
A Text Valentine

You will need this file to complete this tutorial.

1. Click File=> New. Set the file to the following:

• Width: 750
• Height: 700
• Background White
• 72 ppi

2. Select the shapes tool

3. On the shapes options bar, set the shape to path only and select your shape selection drop down.

Select the Flyout from this panel and install the "shapes" from the list. This will give you a nice heart shape.

4. Draw a heart path starting at the upper left and ending at the lower right of your canvas.

5. Press your d key and click image=> Canvas Size. Set the canvas size to 

• width= 800
• height =- 750
• center

6. Open the text file in a notepad. There are several different groups of text. There is a groups of text that repeats "I love you!". Use your cursor and highlight this text. Right click on the highlighted area and select "copy" from the menu.

7. Select your type tool in Photoshop. Set the text to 18 pt Ariel, Dark Red, Hex #990000. Move your cursor over the path for the heart until you see the cursor change to an I with a bent line through it. Click on the path on the left side of the heart when you see the I with the bent line through it. This will set an anchor for the text. Hold your control key down and press the letter v (ctrl v will paste). Your text will go around the heart inside the heart.

8.  We want the text to be outside the heart, not inside, so with your direct select tool (white arrow) , mouse over the text until you see a black arrow form on the cursor. Drag the text to the other side of the path. The text will move to the outside of the shape. Click somewhere else to deselect the text.

9. Open the text file in a notepad. Highlight the text that says I Love You in many different Languages. Press CTRL c to copy the text.

10. Insert a new layer. Click on the path palette and select the heart shaped path on the path palette.

11. Select your text tool again. This time you will set the text to the following:

• Size: 30 pt
• Leading: 24
• Font: Monotype Corsiva
• Color: Bright Red, Hex #ff0000.
• Aligned: Justified. (on the paragraph tab)

Mouse over the center of the figure. Notice the cursor will show an oval like shape over the I cursor. This means you are set to fill a shape with text. Click inside the heart and hit CTRL v to paste.

12. You now have a heart made of text and outlined in text. Let's fancy it up. Click on the background layer. Add a layer. Select  pale pink color and fill this layer with it.

13. Select your path palette. Highlight your heart path on the paths palette. Click back on the layers palette. With your pink layer highlighted, click Layer=> Add Vector Mask=> Current Path.

14. Click the FX button on the bottom of the layer panel while the pink heart layer is highlighted. Select Bevel and Emboss. Select the following:

• Style: Inner bevel
• Technique: Smooth
• Depth: 171
• Direction: up
• Size ~ 21

Save your file and print it for your Valentine!