Size:

The most important slider of them all! You will find more often than not that you need to adjust this slider.

Simply increase or decrease the Size slider to fit your selection. If you need to reposition the mask after resizing, click on the mask and move it to your desired location.

So now that you have the tools to create a circle image, I’d like to show you how you can put your new skills to use!

In the next section, I’m going to create a business card using the circle crop. I’ll also be using some additional features in Colorcinch that can really help bring your designs to life!

Part 3: Putting it All Together – Using a Circle Image in Graphic Design

I’ve already uploaded my image into Colorcinch and the first two things to do are:

1. Resize the Circle Mask and reposition it
2. Set the background to be a solid color and change the color

Adding Text:

Next, I’d like to add some text to my business card.

Click on the Text tab in the left-hand column, followed by the Add Text button.

Once the Text Box appears, enter some text and drag it to the location you’d like. For this example, I’m the owner of a coffee house, so I’ll name it, “The ABC Coffee House”.

In the text column, there are quite a few options to play around with, including: Front, Font Size, and Color. In addition, we have quite a few other powerful options to really make your text stand out!

Below is a quick overview of the main text options.

• Letter Spacing – Controls how close or far apart the letters are from one another
• Line Height – If you have more than one row of text, you can control how big or small the gap (space) is between the text rows/lines
• Opacity – Controls how visible the text will appear
• Background – By enabling Background, you can add a padded box around your text as a solid color and even change that color
• Outline – Enabling Outline will outline your text with a selected color
• Shadow – Enabling Shadow can provide extra depth and really bring out that wow factor in your text

Keep in mind that the title is the first thing that people will see, so don’t be afraid to pull out all of the stops with the above tools!

In my example, I used the “dancing script” Font with a Font Size of 75. I’ll keep the text color black.

Now that I have my title text, I’d like to make it pop more. To do so, I’m going to use the Outline and Shadow features!

Outline Settings:

1. Enabled Outline
2. Set the Width to 37% (width controls how thick or thin the outline will be)
3. Selected an orange outline color

Shadows Settings:

1. Enabled Shadow
2. Changed the Intensity to 32 (the lower you set the intensity, the softer the shadow will be)
3. Set the Vertical Position to a value of 2 (this will move the shadow up or down)
4. Set the Horizontal Position to a value of 1 (this moves the shadow left or right)
5. The color I selected was black

Next, I added some additional text for my coffee business using the same steps as above. The only difference here is that I changed the Font to “cabin” and set the Font Size to 43.

Adding Graphics:

Now to add some final touches!

In this section, I’m going to Introduce a few graphic elements to add a little more interest to my design.

Firstly, you’ll need to click on the Graphics tab in the left-hand column.

Here you will have two options:

1. Upload your own graphics
2. Search our extensive selection of pre-installed graphics to save time

Since my theme here is Coffee, all I have to do is type “coffee” in the search bar and select the graphics that appeal to me.

To select a graphic, click on it once, and it will appear in the Your Graphics section. From the Your Graphics section, drag the icon onto your design and move it to your desired location.

You can also easily resize and rotate your graphics. 

• Pull down the bottom to enlarge, or push up to shrink the graphic
• To rotate, click the corner selector and rotate it in the direction that you would like

To quickly duplicate a graphic, click once on it, select Layer Properties, followed by Duplicate. Next, click and drag the duplicate graphic to its new location.

Now, I could finish here, but I’d like to add just one more finishing touch using the steps above!

Below I added another graphic from our wide range of existing graphics, which accentuates my lovely circle based image!

As you can see, the options are endless, so let your imagination run wild!

Conclusion:

Well, that’s it for this tutorial, but the good news is, we have plenty more tips and tricks on the way!

Stay tuned and we’ll see you in the next article!

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