DHD Spring Blog Hop and Tutorial

Thanks for participating in the DHD Spring Blog Hop! Today, I'd love to show you how to create a text wrap effect in Photoshop when you do your journaling. Something I love about scrapbooking is how you can preserve precious memories by telling stories through photos and journaling on your layouts. In my opinion, the way you present your journaling on your page can add even more to the story being told and by wrapping journaling around different elements or photos in your layout, you create a better flow to your layout.The first thing you will want to do is use the rectangle tool to outline where you want to place your journaling (make sure to choose the rectangle tool and not the rectangular marquee tool). When you make your square or rectangle, include the overlapping element. Choose paths and add to paths when you use this tool.

Next, choose a shape in the paths menu that you want to use to cut out around the element or object that you want to journal around. You can even use the freeform pen tool if you have an irregular shape you want to cut out of the journaling area. Make sure to choose the "Subtract from paths area" option before beginning your cutout. Your cursor will turn into a large plus sign with a tiny minus sign at the bottom. After you've created your cut out shape, by holding down your mouse and spacebar, you can reposition your cutout if necessary.

Last, select the Text tool in Photoshop and move it into your journaling area where you plan on beginning to type. As soon as your Text tool is inside the journaling area with the subtracted cutout, the cursor will go from the normal square text cursor to having a dotted circle where the square was.

And that's that! Here is a page I made using this technique and part of the Spring Menagerie kit, which you will get for free if you complete the blog hop by gathering your scavenger hunt letters! (The area I "cut out" in this layout was around the pink butterfly.)

You can download here a very basic template of this page for free where the journaling text wrap is already done for you. My mystery letter to the DHD Spring Blog Hop Scavenger Hunt is:

Check the DHD blog for updates on Mad March Memories Challenges and great sales for the whole month of March! Also, if you’d like to enter to win a gift certificate to the DHD shop, leave a comment on my blog including your email address before March 18^th at midnight. Don't forget to visit the other blogs in the blog hop to collect all the letters to the scavenger hunt! Your next stop is Audrey Neal's blog.