Photoshop :: Typography Is Tough!
Jul 13, 2004
I can see myself getting progressively better and better at graphics. I'm starting to "THINK IN LAYERS", and using advanced photo editing effects in order to achieve what I'm lookin for.
My problem as of late is that, as SOON as I add text to images, it seems to ruin them. It could be the placement, font face, kerning, alignment, or just the fact that it's not sharp or smooth enough, depending on the size. Does anyone have tips for using fonts/text on an image. Have you found ways to get professional quality text, aside from the artistic aspect of it?
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Apr 26, 2005
I called the local fire department and made an appointment to do a portrait of a Polish fire fighter in full regalia. I have the image. this is a two part question.
the first one on a technical note. My plan is to super impose him onto a blazing inferno, I am confident I can match the lighting well. The image is super high resolution and I have a lot of hopes pinnedon it to knock some socks off. The problem is (in terms of a super high quality Image, really want to stress that) the image is too clean. I want to smear soot and grease onto the image. is there any way to do that in a completely visible way.
second question. Where can i find the inferno image. I cant find a royalty free image anywhere that is impressive enough. By the way it should be from a distnance as the tongues of flame in a close up shot look unbelievable.
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Apr 19, 2008
I need to use photo shop to make a poster for a class using only words. We can shape and bend those words to make the poster appealing,
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Oct 7, 2013
I'm on a Mac, OS X 10.8, CS6. Some random accidental keystroke caused the Typography adjustments (on the right bar) to disappear.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem very obvious about how to get those back. Now it's a blank square with no options listed. How to get this back?
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Aug 1, 2003
How do you choose fonts to go with various images? Do you just cycle through the ones you got until you find what looks right? Or for certain things do you generally use a set of fonts, like this font that font and another font to use usually when making an ad (or go more specifically? and go for ceratin fonts when the subject matter is cars, as opposed to nature, as opposed to computers, as opposed to people etc.). Are there guides to choosing fonts that I just can't find? General fonts used with fantasy artwork, general fonts used with sci-fi artwork, fonts used with something else more broad or more specific?
And how would a knowledge of typography help exactly with choosing fonts, or would it help?
I'm just asking this out of pure curiosity, sort of... And the fact that I'm not too fond of trying to pick out fonts for an image/sig/something by having to cycle through all of the fonts that I have. I'm just wonderin' if, when I'm working on something more on the fantasy side, a certain group of fonts generally look better, or when with something else, another set of fonts generally look better.
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Oct 19, 2011
First I was working in the white background when I did brush strokes to the typography.But i don't realize until I saved it for the png format that I was applying the brush strokes other than needed. Here the snapshot of the work.
Remove the white strokes from the blue background without deleting from that black letter!
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May 21, 2013
I am loosing way too much quality when exporting to PNG or "saving for Web" using either AI or PS.best way to create a simple typography Logo and save it in a high quality for web.
I understand there might be some loss of quality doing it the way I am currently, but it is so bad it looks awful on a retina screen (i-phone).
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May 2, 2013
This is a sample [URL] ......
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Sep 23, 2012
How to make a portrait typography?
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Jun 5, 2013
I have used pretty much all the Illustrator versions from CS2 onward, mainly for typographic work. In the new version I've been using – Illustrator CS6 on Windows 7 – the typography panels are behaving differently from previous versions and it is extremely frustrating!
Character Panel - On previous versions you can click on the font menu in the Character Panel and you get a list with previews, then you can search by scrolling with the mouse wheel or by typing in the name of a font. But in CS6 the mouse wheel doesn't work, you have to click on arrow buttons or move the mouse to the top/bottom of the list to scroll (and it scrolls very slowly!). When you try to type to search, it only lets you type the first letter, not the full font name. So if you're looking for Museo for example, you can only type 'M' then you still have to scroll through all the M's until you find it, if you type 'M' then 'U' (as I would do normally) you are taken to 'U' in the list.Character Context Menu - I use the context menu (the one that lives at the top of the screen) a lot. Again on previous versions it was really quick to click the drop down and just start typing the first few letters in the font name until you see the one you're looking for. In CS6 you can only do a type search when the drop down menu is closed, when you open the drop down, type to search no longer works!
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Jun 11, 2012
How can I flatten the typography so that the top of i aligns with the top of the pad? See attached.
I tried to add the points by editing the topo surface but it kept giving me an error message saying the points are outside the lines?
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Nov 2, 2008
Version: Photoshop CS (1)
Computer: Pentium 2.4 gHz dual core
4 Gigs Ram
Nvidia 7950 video card Win XP Home
I started to get this strange error with my Photoshop when making a new document in Photoshop and got the following error: "cannot initiate Photoshop because Photoshop cannot create any more windows".
I thought the easiest thing to do would be to reinstall (Photoshop needs reinstalling extremely often unfortunately), but now when I try and open the program it just give an alert beep and closes back up. Even though I rarely use ImageReady, I opened that up to check and it does the same behavior.
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May 28, 2004
Can anyone tell me what color settings I need to set in photoshop in order to avoid this from happening? It only happens once in a while and I don't know what I've done to fix it or screw it up. What happens is that when I'm in photoshop and I do a "save for web" my document jumps to image ready and when viewing '2 up' for optimization purposes and comparison, I realize that the original view is actually duller in color and does not look like the original in photoshop. The blacks are definitely not as black.
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Jun 7, 2004
when I got my first Macintosh IICX and all of my MacPaint clip art. I don't want to get rid of the clip art because since I'm still using a black ink printer and not upgrading to a color one, the clip art looks nice in newsletters and the like.
Up until this time I had been using SuperPaint which had the New Superbits editing plug-in to refine the pictures so they had the smoother and cleaner lines instead of looking jagged. With my new computer and printer, I'm also getting Photoshop CS packaged with Adobe Creative Suite Premium, which I have never used before. Since I have not received my order yet, I was wondering if anyone could tell me whether Photoshop has the capability of improving the older MacPaint clip art like SuperPaint did with the New SuperBits editing plug-in. Over the past two days, I have been trying like crazy to back-up my pictures with SuperPaint and then re-saving them with Graphic Converter. It's been so incredibly slow that I thought I would go ahead and ask you, the experts, if Photoshop can also improve the quality of my older MacPaint clip art or if I should continue to back-up my clip art like I have been doing.
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Jun 17, 2008
I have just got back from the Elbow gig and pulled the images off the card. They load up in Bridge but don't have actual picture thumbnails. They are named correctly, ie: IMG_3483.CR2 but they won't open!? Error message says 'Could not complete your request because Photoshop does not recognise this type of file'
I could see them on the back of the camera.
mac users... i did a software update the other day and I noticed that there was an update for ACR. Could it have been something to do with that? And why can't I find ACR in my Applications?
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Apr 29, 2013
I use Photoshop Elements 11. I am trying to upload photos to a website and the browse only goes to Windows/Pictures. How do I navigate to photoshop to upload pictures there?
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Oct 30, 2012
of Adobe Photoshop v6.0.1 (quite old, I know, but it do all I want and on my old HW I did not plan/want to use any more recent version, because they are HUGE and with just a little preferences trick, I did not need to reinstall my PS - ever ), yet as Czech user, I need my software to type some special characters as well. These are looking like this:
[URL]...
Now the only problem is, that some of them PS just refuse to type. Seven small and seven caps are just wrong. See the line "for PS:"...
I battled the problem even by editing the fonts itsels, because that seems to work with Adobe Illustrator, yet this also cause the edited fonts to be useless in another programs. So I looked deeply and in the Adobe settings in directory Fonts / Reqrd are directory CMaps and perhaps editing the character map used will be better and usable solution? how to do it or even determine with file from the 96 files in the CMaps directory are right now used by Adobe Photoshop?
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Aug 21, 2012
Everytime I open my CS6, it always show " Could not initialize Photoshop because the preferences file was invalid (it has been deleted)" I reinstalled it but it is still popping out.
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Mar 8, 2004
when I try to save a tagra file with a alpha channel in photoshop 7 the box for the alpha channel is greyed out, with an warning sign next to it, and the line below stating "file must be saved as a copy with this selection" When I examine the saved file the alpha channel is not there!
Has anybody got any idea why?
My old version of photoshop 6, allows you to save alpha channels!
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Mar 21, 2007
the soft edge feature of the eraser and the brush no longer work. I can go into the pallet and choose a soft edge eraser or brush, but it comes up hard edge. When I try to use the marquee box with a feather to get a soft edge, I again get a hard edge. I've used this technique a lot, so I think I'm doing the method properly. I have removed the preference files a number of times and have trashed the old Photoshop and reinstalled Photoshop 3 or 4 times,
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Dec 29, 2008
I am working on someone elses computer and the Software settings are different. The old owner does not use this computer anymore. The swatches are set and I would like it to function how it usually does, etc. I mean, even the transparent swatch on the tool bar is not there anymore, so when I use the pen path tool, I get these white and black fills which makes it difficult for me to see the path I am meant to be following.
How do I reset Photoshop so that I can customise it the way I want it? Reinstalling the softwares is not an option.
I would like to reset Illustrator, Indesign, Dreamweaver, etc.
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Aug 24, 2006
I'm having trouble with my zoom tool. If I have multiple Photoshop windows open, when I go to either zoom in or out of the top window... ALL the other windows mirror what's happening to the top window.
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Feb 19, 2008
I am having in Photoshop CS2. I have had CS2 for over 2 years and have never had this problem. I am not able to open Photoshop CS2. I am getting a message that reads "Could not initialize Photoshop because a required resources text file is missing. It goes through a series of " could not load default contours, styles, custom shaphes because the file could not be found" before getting to the "initialize" window.
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Aug 24, 2002
I scanned a picture on Microtek scanner and was tranfering it to photoshop when I saw photoshop embeded profile mismatch that has use the emdeed profile or covert document's color
in the working space or discard the emdeed profile. which embeded profile do you use for the photos? I attached the shot of the embeed profile from photoshop.
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Jan 2, 2008
After scanning and opening a paper doc in Photoshop the image is distorted- ie its because i usually scan photographs for manipulation, i know this is due to scanner settings but i don't know how to change them there.
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Jul 4, 2007
I have to build a website named Hollywood Movie Wallpaper . I've already gotten the pages done using adobe photoshop. This means that I know exactly what I want on each page and I've done the whole page by adobe photoshop. However, most website host needs the file to be in html in order for it to appear on the web. Is there any way to change an adobe photoshop image into a html file without changing the layout or anything? Coz it was hard work designing the layout and inserting the content into adobe photoshop image.
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Mar 17, 2014
A co-worker needs to be able to access certain files that I have created in Photoshop CC. These files are saved as TIFFs, and as part of my workflow, I have just about everything in Groups. She currently has Elements 10 on her system, but that absolutely does not permit access to the Groups and the components within. Because of her job duties, I cannot necessarily justify adding her to the CC account since she does not need PS, AI, ID, or any of the other applications as I do. However, I can easily justify upgrading her to Elements 12...provided it does what we need it to.
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Dec 18, 2012
Just downloaded Elements 11 and am extremly disappointed. What is the oldest version of Photoshop that I can run on Mountain Lion?
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Apr 16, 2013
any editing I do in photoshop will now seem to need to be manually added to Lightroom...which I do not even want to contemplate. When I rightclick on an image and select Edit in --> Photoshop CS6, nothing happens...Photoshop does not open as it used to. I'd thought it might be Nik Collection trial or OnOne photo suite trial I'd installed, but I uninstalled both and restarted my computer, and the problem still exists. I'm using the current creative cloud version of both lightroom and photoshop.
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Aug 4, 2013
i am going to design a Logo for one of my client. the logo will be like an rounded shield. URL....i can write the text on upper side of te shape which is "Center for Employment Training. Please see the image. on image where this text is written on bottom of shae "Skill Training. Human Development" how to write that text . i tried to wrap the text using Arc option but the text goes stretched.
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Aug 15, 2012
When I use the spell checker in Photoshop CS5 to check a text layer, it always tells me there are no errors, even when I know there are, so it's a useless exercise. Where is the spellling dictionary installed, and how do I make sure it's working properly?
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