CorelDraw
Placing an image inside some text
By Mike Clarke
Oct 2, 2003, 00:05

Creating Text that is filled with an Image – Using CorelDraw’s Power Clip

There are times where you may want to superimpose text on top of an image so that the image shows through the text. This is quite easy and can be a very good selling feature.

1. First let us load in a picture and some text.

Figure 1

2. Next select the text and remove the fill. You can do this by clicking on the “x” in the colour palette bar located right at the top – See Figure 2. This removes the black colour from the text. Note: right clicking on the “x” or on any colour changes the colour attributes of the selected vector line or lines. Left clicking does the same as the right click but works on fills.

Figure 2

3. If you want the text to have a colour outline than right click on one of the colours in the colour tool bar. Let us use a green border for the text. See Figure 3.

Figure 3

4. Next move the text onto the image. If the text disappears than go to the “arrange” menu than to order and click on “move to the front” (or just press the shift key and page up key).
5. Next move the text onto the image.
6. Next select the image
7. Next go to the “effects” menu and than to “PowerClip” and click on place inside container” – see Figure 4.

Figure 4

8. Once you have initiated this command a big black arrow will activate. This arrow is there so that you can select the vector object (text) that you want to place in the drawing. Figure 5 shows the arrow. Place the arrow (yellow box) inside or on the edge of the text and click. The image will be clipped inside the text.

Figure 5

9. If you need to move the image around in the text go back to the power clip menu and with the object selected click on “edit contents” see Figure 6.

Figure 6

10. When you are done go back to the PowerClip menu and select “finish editing this level”. See Figure 7.

Figure 7

11. Once you are done you can print the image. If you want to change the colour of the outline all you need to do is select the whole image and right click on a colour in the colour palette that is at the right side of the program. Figure 8 shows the final image that has been reworked. I have changed the outline to blue.

Figure 8

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