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Posted on 27/12/11 8:19:09 PM |
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rudjard
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text tool question
good day everyone, yesterday while going thru some tutorial of Steve's Art&Design in Photoshop book i came up short getting what i really wanted. this is about using text tool. topic: Texture and Font Medieval Manuscript page 110. my question is How to make this first letter [B] be like a block form in the paragraph and not the one i came up with. I made a single layer for B at first then another layer for the paraghrap but it wont indent the paragraph layer. so i just delete the B layer and resize the letter B in the paraghrap. not exactly what the final result from the book. hope anyone can help thanks. here:  |
Posted on 28/12/11 07:09:47 AM |
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Nick Curtain
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Re: text tool question
Hi Rudjard and welcome. Art and design is not really my thing, so have to admit I don't have this particular book - sorry Steve!. I think you can approach this in two ways - see attached image. In the first example, I selected the type tool and dragged a selection in which to type xxxxxx's. I then rasterised the type layer and deleted the portion within the red rectangle. This is rather a messy manual approach and, while it works, there is limited flexibility if you want to change words etc. If this approach is used, then copy the editable type layer first and then rasterise that, so the hidden original is always there to go back to. My view is that a better approach would be to use a path. You can type along, a path or within the constraints of a closed path. With the red xxxxx's, I created a normal rectangular selection and then removed the top left corner from the selection. This was then converted to a path and the red xxxxx's interted using the type tool. The great thing about this apprach is that you can alter the shape of the path at any time and the text with automatically adjust. Finally, I've shown you an 'autoshape' umbrella, which is a path, to demonstrate how text can be inserted to follow any shape. I'm not sure what method Steve used in the book, but hope this helps in the meantime until he's back from the xmas break. Nick  |
Posted on 28/12/11 3:00:57 PM |
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rudjard
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Re: text tool question
thanks for the quick reply Nick you just gave me another Idea there. i will surely use it, it's cool i can make shapes. 
but what I really would like to do is like this: i just need the whole paragraph will start just on top and not at the bottom of letter B as shown. like I said at first I made a separate layer of letter B then wrote the paragraph in another layer. this could be where i made a mistake right here.  |
Posted on 28/12/11 6:21:09 PM |
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Nick Curtain
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Re: text tool question
Hi Rudjard Apologies if I misunderstood you. I hope the picture attached helps. Your letter B is likely to be a picture, so that will be on its own layer. The type will automatically appear on another layer. Nick  |
Posted on 28/12/11 9:04:34 PM |
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rudjard
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Re: text tool question
yup it works Thanks Nick. i will practice more on Pen TooL to have precise shapes.
to Steve Caplin: I'm into photography and your book helps my picture comes to life by combining your Art and Design. now i have so much to catch up. cheers! |
Posted on 03/01/12 07:55:45 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: text tool question
Glad you managed to get that one sorted out, Nick - a good solution. Welcome to the forum, Rudjard! |