Questions that include the tag "text" might refer to text layouting, styling and/or management in graphic software.
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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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How to fit text box size to text?
I want to fit the artboard to selected art (two text boxes) - the text boxes are larger than the text inside them - how do I fit (shrink) them to wrap tightly around my text?
Illustrator version - ...
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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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Is there a hard and fast rule for choosing colours to make text appear inset
I've always liked the look of inset text on web pages so I try to use it every now and again. (Sparingly and when appropriate).
I always find it a bit of a chore to find the right blend of colours ...
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How to repeat text formatting settings in Illustrator
I have a bunch of text point objects and I'd like to select a subset of them and change their font size (for example). They might be in different groups so I can't select them all at once, so I select ...
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Text is really unsharp
When I create a 2D text, its really unsharp.
Doyou guys might know what to do?
p.s I mean the 'ripples' around the text.
High res image: http://gyazo.com/1a80c0ed88b1d54098279af4985ec060
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How do I create an effect of an object hanging off the end of text
I am trying to find a tutorial on how to create the effect of an object (in this case a crown) hanging on the edge of a letter (on the end of a word). I am designing a logo for our kids ministry at ...
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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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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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Illustrator 3D extrude on text misses faces
I am attempting to create 3D text in Adobe Illustrator CS5 in OSX using the 3D Extrude and Bevel effect.
The problem is that s that if I only rotate the text on one axis, in this case the X axis and ...
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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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How to achieve special effect with layers in Paint.NET?
I am more a developer and not a graphic designer, and because I really don't do this kind of stuff often (more like once in two years or so) I don't want spend a lot of money on tools i'm not going to ...
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How can I get Farsi/Arabic text to render correctly in Photoshop?
I downloaded a number of Farsi fonts and they render individual characters fine but but don't join multiple characters together at all. Does anyone know how to get whole words to appear correctly? If ...
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How do I type Arabic text in Photoshop?
I want to type Arabic text in Photoshop, but the text appears disjointed and the letters do not connect at all. For example محمد appears as م ح م د.
I'm using Photoshop CS6 on OSX Mountain Lion.
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Is there a way to render text in photoshop as vector - for retina mbp?
I installed new photoshop, and working on iPhone and Android apps looks nice (for android at least on xhdpi and hdpi, mdpi and ldpi require zooming in) but when working on website layout i get ...
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How to make text that round a picture like a circle?
I want to make a logo. The content of the logo is a picture and a sentence which round a picture like a circle. I am using Inkscape (on Ubuntu). Which tools should I use?
If I can't do this on ...
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Why does text of the same size appear different in Photoshop than in Word?
Ok so here you can see text in MS Word. 11 pt Times New Roman looks way bigger than the text in Photoshop at the same size and in the same font. The resolution in Photoshop was and has always been 72 ...
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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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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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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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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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Inline Text in Photoshop [duplicate]
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How do I create a solid line of uniform thickness inside of a letterform in Illustrator?
I have been messing around in Photoshop trying to re-create this effect!
I ...
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After effects: Moving text along 3D path
After Effects beginner here.
The effect I'm after is where text is appearing from behind an object. So far, I'm using the position and rotation parameters.
But the text is rigid. I found something ...
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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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Text transparent with shadow in Photoshop
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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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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 ...
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Emphasizing a word in a sentence
I want to emphasize a word in a sentence. I've seen it somewhere but couldn't find the picture. Its like the selected word is normal but all other things are blurry. And maybe the word is closer than ...
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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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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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Smallest readable printed font size for Calibri on my inkjet printer?
What would be the smallest font in Microsoft Word that when printed on an A4 size paper would still be readable?
By readable, I don't mean comfortably readable. All I need is for the printed text to ...
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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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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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How to get this text effect in Fireworks? (or at a push, Photoshop!)
I love the effect on this logo and was wondering if anyone knew any tutorials to help get a similar effect?
Thank you!
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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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Photoshop CS3 animation opacity problems
Here is my dilemma. I am making a scrolling text gif. I need the background on this gif to be transparent with a white box centered in the middle with the text showing ONLY in the white box. This ...
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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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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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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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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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Leading error in Text box in InDesign, do you know of a way to fix it?
I am creating this text box in InDesign CS5 and on the last row of a paragraph I get a bigger leading for no reason. If I select the text and check the leading setting it is the same for all rows in ...
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Wondering how to achieve this blur text effect, hopefully in Sketch
Is there any way to easily generate this?
thanks!
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Adobe Illustrator error creating text constrained by shape (Area Type Tool)
I am newer than new to Illustrator, but am trying nontheless to design a logo for my friend.
The most basic of operations is to create an ellipse, correct?
I have created a circle with this tool, ...
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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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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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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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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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Changing position of text in objects from common library & copying layer structure to another file
this is a double question (to avoid wasting space :P)
1: How can I precisely move the text of an element from the common library? I'm currently using a mac text field and after resizing it the text ...
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photofilled text with transparent background
Yesterday I read about how to make text filled with an image. I found an example in Photoshop CS5 Top 100 Simplified. Tips and tricks. But in this example background isn't transparent.
How do I make ...
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How to create 3D extruded text?
I am pretty sure I'm not using the right terminology, but I'm trying to create the same effect in this image:
Is there any way to do this in Illustrator? What is the proper terminology for that ...
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Is there a program which handles text background well?
Paint is the best I've found until now. I need the ability to add a background to text and also control padding. Paint would be perfect if it didn't squeeze text to the left and made equal padding ...
