Very interesting text effects can be achieved by giving letters the appearance that they have been painted on.
Open a page or layout.
Place a colorful image on the page.
Use the Image Tools to crop the picture to the approximate size of the text.
Create a new text object to overlay the image. Choose large, bold font settings
Use the Image Tools to add a Scalable Backdrop to the text object. Set a border width of 30 pixels and a corner radius of 0. Choose a color to match your page background, transparency factor of 100.
Apply the Invert Mask tool against the text object. Choose the same color as in the previous step, and an intensity setting of 100.
Apply the Buttonize and Shadow tool against the text object. This will give your “painted” text depth.
Apply the Cropping tool against the text object.
Open the active tool list for the text object. Make sure that the cropping tool is on the bottom of the list.
Trim off the excess border previously created by the Scalable Backdrop.