Monday, May 5, 2014

Make A Clip Art Street Sign

Street signs can be recreated and reimagined for personal use with a bit of creativity.


Signs can be a playful alternative to art when it comes to decorating your home or personal space. Children in particular love having signs personalized to their names or personal interests to hang up in their rooms. Creating these signs for someone, or working with them to make them, can be an enjoyable activity. With today`s technology and programs that provide a plethora of stock images, like clip art, the task is easier than ever. Street signs can be created using clip art in just a few steps.


Instructions


1. Decide what you would like your street sign to say. Perhaps you want it to be the name of a child or pet, or a surname.


2. Open your word processing program.


3. Click on Insert, and then select Clip Art.


4. Look through your computer's current clip art selection for street sign images.


5. Double click on the street sign image to open it.


6. Select the program's Text tool.


7. Hover your cursor over top of the street sign image. Click on the area that you want to add type to.


8. Type your text onto the sign.


9. Use your cursor to highlight the text. Double click on the text tool to make changes to the font, and text color. Select OK.


10. Click on Print to print your sign.