Whatever project you create using PaintShop Pro, you are likely to use text at one point or another. Every time you use text, you have to ask yourself what font will be used. There are so many possible fonts, in different styles and types. What to choose? Let's have a look at one of those types of fonts: monoline.
Once you work on a project and put it aside for a while, you might be looking for that particular font used in the title or the journaling. How can you find out what it was? Do you have to scroll endlessly through your list of fonts? Not at all. There are simpler ways for that.
When looking online to find various supplies for scrapbooking and PaintShop Pro, you might find fonts and alphas. What are they, and how do you use them? Although at first glance, they could look similar, they are very different.
If you are collecting a lot of fonts, you might face a specific challenge when it comes to choosing and using them. Font viewers can be a great help in that area. In the past, I have mentioned TheFontThing as one font viewer that had a particular advantage for PaintShop Pro users: you can use fonts without having to install them. NexusFont also has that advantage, so you get two programs for this particular need.
Are you collecting fonts at every opportunity you have? Are you always downloading new fonts you find left and right? How do you manage to have hundreds or even thousands of fonts? Are you losing the battle? Here are a few tips that might help you.
Many graphic artists, scrapbookers, and crafters are font-aholic. They love getting those fun, interesting, and different fonts. They collect them by the hundreds, and maybe by the thousands. Fonts are used, typically, to transpose the characters from the keyboard to the monitor (and into whatever program) so you can read a message. Even though dingbats fall in the "font" category because they are associated with keyboard keys, they are not characters that will make a legible text: they are designs of various kinds.
Do you like the idea of adding a personal touch to your scrapbook pages and your journaling? In traditional paper scrapbooking, it would be easy to handwrite the title or the date or the journaling directly on the page or on a paper that will be added to the project, but what if you only do digital scrapbooking? Of course, you can write the text on a piece of paper, scan it and add it to the page as a png or a jpg image. But there is another way: convert your handwriting into a font.
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Cassel is the owner and main instructor in the Scrapbook Campus.
She has been teaching digital scrapbooking for over 15 years.
