This may be too late to do any good...but here's directions for Adobe 7 run in Windows. Even if it's not exact, it should be close.
First, go to the "Window" box on the top of the screen and click on "Layers". This will show you your current layers. You should have only one and it will be labelled Background. Double-click on the label and give it a new name. This will transform it from a background layer to a standard layer. This will give you more versatility.
Next, go to the toolbar (if it's not open, open it through the "Window" box). Set the foreground color to whatever shade of blue you desire. Then go to the bucket tool. If you don't see it, go to the gradient tool and push Alt+left click mouse on the little black triangle in the bottom right corner of the tool. Once you've selected the paint bucket, click on the canvas.
Once that's done, click on the text tool. Change the foreground color to the color you want the text. The text tool *will* automatically make a new text layer every time to mouse click with it. But don't worry, you can collapse layers later. Add text as desired.
Then go to the layers window (which should still be open from when you changed the Background layer to a standard layer). You'll see eye shapes on the right next to each layer. That marks the layer as visible to you. To make a layer invisible, left-click on the eye. If you want to delete or duplicate any layers right click on the layer name. To merge layers, go to the "Layer" box at the top. At the bottom of the options that appear, you can merge just the visible layers, or you can select "Flatten Image" which will merge all the layers and turn the whole image into one Background layer.
(I used to do some Photoshop work for USGS. It really is a very fun program.)
First, go to the "Window" box on the top of the screen and click on "Layers". This will show you your current layers. You should have only one and it will be labelled Background. Double-click on the label and give it a new name. This will transform it from a background layer to a standard layer. This will give you more versatility.
Next, go to the toolbar (if it's not open, open it through the "Window" box). Set the foreground color to whatever shade of blue you desire. Then go to the bucket tool. If you don't see it, go to the gradient tool and push Alt+left click mouse on the little black triangle in the bottom right corner of the tool. Once you've selected the paint bucket, click on the canvas.
Once that's done, click on the text tool. Change the foreground color to the color you want the text. The text tool *will* automatically make a new text layer every time to mouse click with it. But don't worry, you can collapse layers later. Add text as desired.
Then go to the layers window (which should still be open from when you changed the Background layer to a standard layer). You'll see eye shapes on the right next to each layer. That marks the layer as visible to you. To make a layer invisible, left-click on the eye. If you want to delete or duplicate any layers right click on the layer name. To merge layers, go to the "Layer" box at the top. At the bottom of the options that appear, you can merge just the visible layers, or you can select "Flatten Image" which will merge all the layers and turn the whole image into one Background layer.
(I used to do some Photoshop work for USGS. It really is a very fun program.)
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