Questions that include the tag "text" might refer to text layouting, styling and/or management in graphic software.
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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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Adobe Illustrator - Text Extrude Tips
I'm bit of a newbie in Adobe Illustrator and have been learning the application by trying to follow some tutorials and recreating some cool stuff I come across on the web.
That being said, I'm ...
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Reduce image size in photoshop without compromising text readability
I found a similar thread that gave some great pointers, but still doesn't solve my issue.
My boss asked me to create a corporate presentation, and I had the unfortunate idea of doing it all in ...
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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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Wondering how to achieve this blur text effect, hopefully in Sketch
Is there any way to easily generate this?
thanks!
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How do I achieve this gradient effect on type in Illustrator?
I'm trying to achieve the gradient effect shown in the below examples on each letter of the type I'm using in a logo design. I don't really know what this style is called, so I can't effectively look ...
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Using an invert mask on one single layer
I'm stuck with this little thing, which should be extremely easy but I simply cannot achieve it the way I want it.
Working with Photoshop CS5, I have a PSD with several layers, most of them being ...
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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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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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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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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 lock the position and size of a text-frame in InDesign CS6?
How to lock the position and size of a text-frame in InDesign CS6?
I would like to lock those properties in each page in Indesign. Sometimes the designers get wrong and drag and drop the text frame ...
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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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How do I create a professional quality desktop icon?
I would like to create a professional quality icon. Currently, I have created an icon with IcoFX. The icon looks great -- when it is scaled at the right size. When it gets scaled to the wrong size, ...
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Is using a portion of quoted text on a poster a derivative work?
I made a poster, for my own use, that uses a few lines from a well known song and I liked the outcome so much I'd like to share it. However, I'm not sure if taking part of a copyrighted material and ...
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Hiding symbol (and other weird) fonts from Photoshop
In my Photoshop fonts menu there's a lot of fonts I'll never use, and these get in the way of finding the fonts I do use. Can I hide those never-use fonts from Photoshop? (I'm not sure font management ...
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How to create a Bitmap Font, with Photoshop?
I want to create a custom font to use for a game, and it must be a Bitmap font. So the spacing etc between characters must be equal. Now I don't know much of Bitmap fonts.
The font itself will be a ...
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Convert text to paragraph text in Illustrator
Is there any quick way to convert text created at point (automatically resizable boundaries) to a area (paragraph) text (with fixed boundaries) in Illustrator CS3?
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Is it good practice to add additional space before a punctuation mark after emphazised text?
Is there a typographic convention or practice about placing punctuation marks after emphazised text?
I ran across this example on a website today that adds an additional space after emphazised text ...
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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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Flash CS6 - how to replace a playing card index (i.e. how to type into same bounding box)?
I've purchased a stock set of playing cards in .ai format and have successfully imported it into a Flash CS6 file.
However I have the problem, that the cards have english indices: J, Q, K, A - while ...
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Why do most comics have uppercase text in their balloons?
While it's well known in design that lowercase is easier to read.
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Readability and appeal of justified text
If I write a document that I have to hand in to somebody (a report, summary, draft, whatever) I usually justify the text because it seems more appealing (at least to me) if it all finishes at the same ...
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How to write distinctive letters?
This is more of a handwritten or drawing style question. Lets say I draw letters. How do I make letters and numbers distinct? For example the number 0 has a line through it as well as 7. If I looked ...
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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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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
Lower res ...
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Text effect on any background color
I want to display a text over a video. However, the video may include any color from white to black. What is the best text effect (color/stroke/shadow/glow ... etc) that can be applied on the text so ...
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Text wrapping fill-last-line-first
I have a peculiar design for a web page that I have to implement from an already made design, and some of the text wrappings are filled bottom-up (in my case it's for bottom-left aligned thin text ...
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Inline Text in Photoshop [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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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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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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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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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Creating flexible text boxes in Illustrator
I'm going to be making images that include hundreds of lines of text of varying lengths, each of which will have the same "background", with the exception of the length of the background, which will ...
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Disappearing InDesign Text
I am working on a page someone else created as a master page, and want to add a text box to the page. I created the box and placed my text in it, but the text is not visible. If I drag the text box ...
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Which is easier on the eyes: dark-on-light or light-on-dark?
While working on my latest website, I started actually wondering if what I learned in grade school was true. I've been taught that programs like Word default to use a white background with black text ...
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Have multiple text Layers in CS5 [closed]
I want to make multiple text Layers in CS5 be able to change the word example "pete" in all the layer at once to "john" is this possible?
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Why is text on microsoft site not smooth in non-IE browser?
The following link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/buy.aspx and possibly all other links in MS site does not render text smoothly in Chrome and Firefox. Why so?
IE7:
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Recommended column width for text reading, digital vs printed
Coming form a digital background, I have often read different kinds of suggestions (for example 35-50 ems) for how wide a column of body text should be to still maintain a good readability.
Is there ...
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Curved text along path not working? [closed]
I've watched five youtube tutorials on how to curve text, it seems quite simple. Select pen tool, make sure paths is select, make path.. then take text tool.. hover on an anchor, squiggly line will ...
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What are the best practices and techniques to fix rags?
What would be the best practices to fix the rags on a left aligned text for print.
Besides breaking lines and hyphenations, should you use tracking, and if so how much.
Also, how would you judged a ...
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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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Is there a single text color that is acceptable on both dark and light background?
Is there a single text color that, when used on either dark or light background, produces a readable (or at least tolerable) output?
If it makes it easier, constraints can be put on the hue, ...
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What subtle techniques can be used to make design look better overall? [closed]
I am have been spending a good amount of my time to learn how to do design. My friend is a designer and helps out when he can he often comes around and shows me tricks that make things like text and ...
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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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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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Gimp: export XCF as a list of commands?
It took me a lot of time to create a graphic in GIMP, and now I need to make some variations of the same graphic that actually only require the change of the FG color twice in the process.
The GIMP ...
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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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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 ...
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Font (anti)aliasing in Photoshop
I'm using Photoshop for designing websites and whenever I compare a photoshop design with the live browser preview the fonts appear to be rendered differently.
Basically any anti-aliasing method I ...
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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 ...
