Word Art - Of the Microsoft Kind

I know what you are thinking... what does that title mean?

Well, it means that once upon a time I created a bunch of pictures using nothing but Microsoft Word- and ONLY Microsoft Word- which is much harder than one might realize because MS Word is very limited and is vector based and sometimes places limits on you when it comes to spacing and positioning.

Dagny over at Twisted Uterus asked how I created my mastheads and I always start with MS Word or as in the case above- MS PowerPoint.

PowerPoint allows you to save files in a JPEG format so it makes it a lot easier to use than word, where word you would have to do an ALT+Print Screen to get your images into a Graphic Editor and save your file as an .gif or .jpg.

So, here are some of the items I did in Word.



Dallas Nights

Like the hit show "Dallas" it is definitely full of drama. It's inviting skyline calls out to you, "come, play, stay". My favorite in the "Word Art" series, it took me a lot of time to do this one, and I once tried to duplicate it and make it better but I just couldn't seem to improve it.




Chastened Trees

They just stood there, all of them, blank faced, staunch, rooted in their position. No one smirked, no on laughed, no one dared. Gripped by a chill that came from no where, it sidled up on them like a ghost in the darkness, cat quick. And there he was, staring back at them, Father Winter. His expression was chilling, cold, gray. Someone had to teach them the bitter truth, and he was just the man to do it.



Burn

The fire came out of nowhere. Like a hungry animal it devoured everything it came into contact with. We watched in horror. What could we do? The display, like any other form of destruction, was both horrifying and mesmerizing at the same time. Our eyes were drawn to the flames, watching them flicker, watching them dance, watching them lick at the wood of our humble cabin... the fire greedily ate up all we had worked so hard to build. When it was finished, it cared not about us or how we felt, no, it cared only for itself, and in its hunger began to look for other things to consume.



The Red Barn

What does the Cow say? Not Moo as you would expect, apparently it says, "Eat Mor Chikin!".



Reaching Trees

The moon cast an eerie glow on the mountain tops in the distance. From where I stood, the trees were black as night- and the limbs looked like large black hands reaching up to God- stretching, longing, desiring nothing more than to touch his face and and be near his glory.



The Brady Bunch Cardboard Cutout House

My first Word Art Design... a simple house that reflects a lot of what America is turning into- all function and very little design...

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So, if you want to create your own mastheads and you don't have a fancy photo editor, then you can just use PowerPoint or MS Word. It might not look as good as somthing done by a Graphic Artist, but there is a pride in knowing that you created it yourself.