Questions that include the tag "text" might refer to text layouting, styling and/or management in graphic software.
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How to create a small button image with embossed text like this?
I'm trying to create a shade/roll up button for a window manager theme I'm using. How do you create an image like the one pictured? I'm familiar with gimp but I'm not familiar with the techniques to ...
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How to accomodate different text lengths in translated web content?
I was recently working on a website design and I naturally based my work on the content supplied by my customer.
I knew from the beginning that the site will be accessible in different languages but ...
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GIMP Text along creates jaggies
I have just learned (thanks to tutorial at http://buttner-jenkins.blogspot.com/2010/04/gimp-tut-text-along-path.html) how to create a text along path.
When I followed these instructions, though, ...
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Text transparent with shadow in Photoshop
Example:
In the example image is House Gothic Font 3D Shadow and House Gothic font 3d Normal. How can I make it in Photoshop? the same effect like in the example with the font on the top ...
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Why do html/css texts appear so “pixelated” compared to texts from photoshop or gimp?
Here is an example to explain what I mean:
Text created in Gimp:
Text created in html/CSS code:
font: 60px "anchor-web-1","anchor-web-2", 'Impact', sans-serif;
font-weight: 900;
Why do ...
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Quick copy text in Photoshop Text layer
Is there a way to copy all the text within a Photoshop text layer without having to "open" the layer.
I'm hoping there's a way that I can just select the layer and then have some shortcut that copies ...
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gimp how to sharpen text
I have two layers. Layer one has the background image (some landscape) und layer two is colored. Layer two is above and I insert a text on top of layer two and merge it with layer two and then set ...
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Change color properties of object (curve) when text to path (curve) in CorelDraw X5
Now it is very easy to make text to path (text to curve) in Corel but once you do it, text becomes connected with curve in Object Manager and I cant figure out how to change outline or fill color only ...
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how to import a mathematical equation in Corel Draw X5
I have a problem I could not solve. I am doing a poster in Corel Draw X5, and as it is a physics poster, I need to put mathematical equations in it. The Corel built in text editor is just completely ...
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How to design sites with dark colours (red and black palette)
The graphic designer for my club created a red and black logo (major color is black highlighted with red). Everyone thinks it looks great, and I agree. The issue lies with designing the site. We've ...
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How to get this text effect? What are the blending settings? Any tutorial?
Any idea how to achieve this exact text effect?
Does this kind of text effect have a name? I know the moonlight text effect and since I'm new to Photoshop, I do not understand what blending effect ...
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Can text edits in QuarkXPress automatically replicate in a linked text source file?
Is there a way to import a text file into Quark in such a way so that if there are any spelling errors that are fixed in Quark they will also be updated in the original imported text file?
Kind of ...
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What is this outline around text and how do I get rid of it? (Adobe Illustrator CS5)
I'm a beginner in Illustrator so please excuse me if this is a very noob question.
There's this thin orange-ish outline around the text. I'm 100% certain it is not a stroke. I'm guessing it is ...
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Save as PDF creates ghost images of my text behind the text
I'm an Illustrator Novice (I'm more experienced with Photoshop) but I need to create a vector version of our company logo.
The logo looks fine in Illustrator and if I export a png version it looks ...
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Text Alignment Issues When Opening Adobe Illustrator CS5 File in CorelDRAW X6
I have a file in Adobe Illustrator CS5 (AI-CS5) which I open in CorelDRAW X6 (CD-X6) because it has to go to commercial printers which only accept CD-X6 files. The problem is that when I open the file ...
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Change Background Color of Text Box in Illustrator CS5
Any way to change the background color of a text box without all the workarounds such as placing another shape behind the text.
I need to have a textbox filled with color of 249, 249, 249 and a ...
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Is it possible to do this Illustrator tutorial in Photoshop?
I am in the process of learning photoshop and came across this tutorial which create a great text effect, however it is written for illustrator. Does anybody know if there are any similar guides for ...
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How can I outline (LaTeX) text in Inkscape?
This is a difficult question to google, as the term "outline" does not mean the same in Inkscape as it does in, e.g., Powerpoint.
However, Powerpoint does not support Latex.
How can I outline a ...
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How to construct “lowercase digits” (i.e. text figures)?
Is there an accepted way to adjust font glyphs in order to simulate text figures?
Background
Text figures are "lowercase" digits. You normally use lowercase digits where you also use lowercase ...
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Square background to text in Photoshop (like on movie subtitles…)
Does anyone know a way of addding a square background to text in photoshop? I want something like the same effect that is on subtitles in movies.
See examples below. I can do it with adding a new ...
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How to show background texture through text placed on background in Photoshop?
Say you have an image of a wall or an old, creased piece of paper and you want to add text on that background. How can you make the texture of the background come through the new text in Photoshop so ...
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Editable two side text
Here's what I want to achieve:
pretty simple right? BUT, I'd like the text to remain editable in a simple manner, that is:
Editable text (no outlined font);
Only one line of text (any change has ...
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Turning a text “string” into a text “block” in Photoshop CS6?
If I select the Type tool, click somewhere in my composition and type in some text, it appears that I cannot resize the area the text occupies without resizing the text itself.
However, if I click ...
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Getting text to behave in photoshop like it does in html/css
Im setting out a template in PS 1280x700 px 300dpi (i know web is 72 but i like more clarity when working in PS).
My main problem is the way the text renders im using helvetica neue light 15px and ...
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IS ALL CAPS EVER OK?
I'm recreating a Character Sheet for an RPG, but it might as well be a form.
In the original sheet
I notice that all the text is in capital letters.
At first I thought it was in small-caps, but it ...
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Adobe Photoshop - How to turn text into a “hole” in a layer, so I will see the background through it.
Okay, this should be super easy to do but I just can't find the way.
I have a background image with a solid colour layer on top of it, and I would like to add text on top of everything in such a way ...
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Adobe illustrator: symmetrical editing of card indices (A, K, Q, J, etc.)
I have a set of playing cards in FXG format serving as asset for a Flex card game.
However the indices of the cards are in English language: A, K, Q, J and my game is in a different language.
My ...
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Will text laid out on an image in Photoshop, when printed look pixelated? Or sharp enough?
The title really says it all. I want to design a poster for my home. But here's my question, if I lay out the text in photoshop, save it and then print it - will the text look pixelated? Or sharp ...
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How to get rid of the leading (not sure if that's what it's called) in point text in Illustrator Cs5
In the image below, I have two texts. Both are point text as opposed to area text. The top text has a horizontal line nearly at the bottom. I think it's called leading in font theroy but I am not ...
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Adobe Indesign automatic deletion of overflow text
Indesign CS5.5 (v7.5.2)
Is there an automated method to simply remove all overset text in a text frame?
I don't want it hidden by a smaller frame. I want it gone.
I spend so much time simply ...
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How do I break apart text in Photoshop?
I have a word in a text layer in photoshop. I want each character to be on a separate layer, how can I do that?
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Highlighting text in Adobe InDesign
I want to have inline code snippets in my InDesign document. Similar to how StackExchange does it, like this. So the gray background is perfect. Basically I just want to highlight certain text. ...
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Indesign cs5 place all the pages of a word document automatically
I have a long word document that I need to import inside InDesign cs5..I really dont want to place every single page by hand and I was wondering if I could somehow automate this process!
thanks
Luca
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how do I fix this blur issue on my text logo in photoshop
I have a logo in PS but I'm having a small issue.
I see this small blur at the bottom of my logo text which i cant seem to get rid of.
Zoomed in:
can you see that small blur at the bottom of ...
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Placing text inside shapes
This may be a silly question but...
Im pretty new to illustrator and I have the number 12 and i need to type text inside each number without it going outside the lines of the numbers. How do I do ...
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Formating Text added via Data Sets in Photoshop
I've been using Data Sets to fill alot of my graphics with Text. However I want the text to have different formatting styles (New Lines, Tabs, Bold and Italic to be specific) with certain words. For ...
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What is the difference between “wrapped” text and “constrained” text?
This question is based on the comments on this answer to another question.
What is the technical difference between text that is "wrapped around" a shape as opposed to text that is "constrained by" a ...
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Using Photoshop - how do I make text “wrap” (break) around an image like in the images linked in this post?
Example 1:
Example 2:
Is there a simple and semi-automatic way to do this? I know I can do it manually, but there ought to be some way to make the text automatically break when it reaches some ...
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advise on “copying” text effect from existing logo
I'm trying to copy the text effect on an existing logo to no avail.
I have been using Illustrator to work on the logo but cannot seem to get it workout the way I want.
It's not that I want to copy ...
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Illustrator - make text wrap instead of scale
I have a chunk of text I need to paste into Illustrator. No matter what I do, I can't resize the text area without scaling the text. I want to resize the area and have the text wrap (font size to ...
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Uploaded PDF text looks blurry on my blog
I've created a PDF pricelist for my photography clients, and it looks great as a PDF. However, I wanted to upload it to my blogsite as an image for visual impact.
The steps I took are:
Imported ...
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In Adobe Fireworks, how do I make the margin beneath the text in a text box smaller?
I'm trying to either make the inner margin in a text box smaller, or align the text on the bottom of the text box in fireworks. (by text box, I mean the box surrounding a text element).
With the ...
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Are there any limitations regarding the Text Tool in GIMP?
I opened a PNG image to add some text, but when I click the image with Text Tool, it doesn't work.
I have searched info online about the Text Tool and anything related to this issue I'm having, but I ...
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Illustrator Text Bounding Box Resize
I have an illustrator file, and I need to resize the bounding box of all the components, without changing the size of the text. Is there an easy way to do this, or do I have to go and rewrite all of ...
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Feedback on my Company's Logo? [closed]
I just started my first high school graphic design class a couple months ago, and now I'm using Illustrator to make a logo for my software company.
Info on my company:
I develop applications for ...
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Is there a way to tell InDesign not to break words in a Paragraph? (hyphenation)
I am pasting this text into a text box in InDesign, I have a Paragraph Style set for that box and I am using "Justify with last line aligned left" (you can see in the screenshot, the red circles)
The ...
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Shadow for medium sized text
there are many examples of text-shadow effects on the web but only for very large text or particular background/foreground colours.
I've tried creating an engraved effect or a 3D effect (I really ...
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How can I make text be “masked” into a silhouette?
I need some way of making text (more specifically, the chorus for a song for a graphic arts project) be fitted to the outline of a silhouette.
The effect I wish to achieve is much like this piece of ...
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Formatting text in Illustrator - paragraphs - numbered lists
I have this really "great" task of creating something in Illustrator that shouldn't be normally done with Illustrator...I am no gonna go into details about that, im just saying so no one starts blah ...
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How can i make the alphabet beautiful? (web) [closed]
I'm working on a directory type of page where I will have your typical "A B C D E ..." alphabet posted on top so people can jump down to listings starting with their letter of choice.
The alphabet ...
