photoshop question
photoshop question
I have a qeustion....I scanned a picture of a garbage payl kid(if you remmber those), and on the bottom, I want to change the name, but use the same lettering. Does anyone know how I would be able to do this?
I am currently running photoshop 5.0
well I dont know what this has to do with movies but if you have the right font you can click on the text button (the large A) and select the proper font and color and then hit enter. Once its on the pic you can resize it and position it.
Oh but first click the eyedropper tool thing and get the right color and erase or color over the text. Then do what I said at the top of this message.
I like to open a document and type the name and the alphabet in upper & lower case, and the numbers in every fon I have loaded on my computer, then print out this document. WHen I install new fonts, I make a new document with the additional fonts and print it out, thus I have a hard copy of all of the fonts I currently have. This helps me decide on which one to use for whatever purpose.
If you have a decent number of fonts, you should be able to find something close enough, even if not an exact match. Font creation software exists, but simply doing web searches and downloading free (or buying online) fonts is much, much, much easier. For a single line of type, you can carefully create the text by hand, scan it in, and place it on a tansparent layeras a seperate element, as mentioned below. For my website buttons, I had to apply the type to my images and go back in at high magnification and tweak alomst every letter to make them read right at the size they were to be displayed.
Also, IMHO, Extensis Phototext Solo is the most useful Photo Shop plug in I have used! I add a lot of text to images and it simplifies it and allows things that the regular PS text tool does not.
Rubber stamp and blur the edges of the stamped sections to erase the old text, then apply text onto a transparent layer (hold down the Alt key if using Phototext) and adjust it as necessary until you are happy with it, then flatten the image.
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Jeff F - Magic and FX
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clone out the existing type and re-type using the same font.
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