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Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

01/20/2005 09:16:27 PM · #1

//loretta-oz.com/index_1.html

That is a very rough page of a new site I am developing. The banner looks really shit. Anyway I couldn't find an easy way of doing the fonts the way I wanted, which was single color with second color outline. I had to make the fonts and then do a 1 pixle border around the outside and then color it in to do the outline.

Does anyone know a better way of doing this and do i need pluggins?

Any help that someone can give me would really be appreciated.

Thanks

Canon EOS-20D

01/20/2005 09:29:08 PM · #2

Type your word. Then:

Layer > Layer style > stroke

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

01/20/2005 09:33:17 PM · #3

and that will do it all? I will play around with it.

Sorry I am at work at the moment so its hard to imagine what you are saying (not in front of my home computer). I will definitely try that though. What I currently have looks really shit and way too pixleish.

Canon EOS-20D

01/20/2005 09:46:33 PM · #4

You're just trying to do an outline in a different color, right? That will do it.

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

01/20/2005 09:49:24 PM · #5

1. Make background.

2. Add text, which automatically creates a new layer, color it and style it as you wish.

3. On the text layer in the layers dialogue box, right click and select "blending options".

4. Select "drop shadow"

5. double click in "drop shadow" name to get a new dialogue box for the drop shadow.

6. By "blend mode" double click the color box and choose your outline color.

7. Set "distance" slider at "0"; this will center the drop shadow benath the type.

8. Set "size" at desired number of pixels.

9. Set "spread" at whatever works, try 70%

10. Set "opacity" at 100%

This will give you a solid outline. You can also play with true drop shadows by varying distance, opacity, global light, and so forth. Arguably a good drop shadow will work better for you than a simple outline.

Robt.

Also what mk says, of course, but the drop shadow version allows a LOT of variations in how you do this. His is the simpler way to just outline the font.

Message edited by author 2005-01-20 21:51:50.

Canon EOS-20D

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

01/20/2005 09:59:33 PM · #6

Originally posted by bear_music:

His is the simpler way to just outline the font.

*Ahem* Look at my sexxxy icon. Do I look like a dude?!? :P

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

01/20/2005 10:01:58 PM · #7

Thanks both of you. I will try it tonight and see how it looks :)

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

01/20/2005 10:06:36 PM · #8

Sorry, mk; at my age sex is a fading memory...

Robt.

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

01/21/2005 11:02:26 PM · #9

ok played around with it last night and I gotta say the stuff you taught me rocks :)

It was pretty late though when I got home so I will probably work on it a little more *as its far from right) but I do have a better banner now than before.
//www.loretta-oz.com/index_1.html

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

01/21/2005 11:47:42 PM · #10

Much mo' bettah! Now find a slogan for "your website slogan here"... LOL

Robt.