Writing with Pencil for E-Learning Modules (How to Steal a Pencil)

Ok, so my experiments with MS Paint go on. This time I learned how to write for our e-learning modules with handwritten letters using a PENCIL. It is very simple, and I don’t think it needs a blog post to demonstrate how we are going to write with hand-written fonts in lead color. Anyway, let us first dig the internet to find a clean notebook paper. The following one will be suitable, I think. Open this image in your PowerPoint.

Now open the MS Paint (Windows 7 version). In the brushes menu, among many artistic and creative brushes, you will find a ‘natural pencil’. Pick that one and start to ‘write’ on the white area. (Remember to choose black color and a 4px size.) Point to remember: Here, writing does not mean typing. You have to actually ‘draw’ the letters, sentence, paragraph or whatever you want to get written, using the pencil tool.

- Select the written things with the select tool and copy it.

- Go to your PowerPoint, where you have the image of the notebook sheet and paste the image of the pencil written letters.

- Using the ‘set transparency tool’ remove the white area around the written things. (To enable set transparency option, double click on the image of the pencil written letters, go to the newly opened Format Tab, click on the Recolor button, and now click on the white surrounding area of the pencil written things.)

- Now adjust the size of the image to fit it inside the notebook paper.

- Finished.

So, that’s how we steal a pencil from the MS Paint for our E-learning modules. See below some of the letters which I made using this method.

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