Photoshop make text strokes tutorial

In the later processing of the picture, the text on the picture is like a man's watch, a woman's jewelry, and the appropriate and wonderful text can give the picture a decorative effect. Of course, the addition of text, and not simply typing on the map so simple, whether it is composition, choreography, decoration to be repeated, many software also introduced some text-decoration functions, such as text strokes is one of the more commonly used.

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Text added to the stroke, will be more solid and more prominent. But each software in the completion of the text strokes of the method process is not the same, specially brought this article on the photoshp CS3 Amerto These two commonly used picture processing software related to the lateral evaluation of text strokes.

First, the evaluation process

1, Photoshop (hereinafter referred to as PS, charging software is not available for download)

In PS to add strokes to the text, first click on the left side of the function bar text icon, drag and drop into text edit box, type text, you can replace the font and size mode (vigorous, sharp ...) Wait However, the PS can only use local fonts, want to like fonts need to download the installation online.

Figure 2 Adding text to PS

Then choose to add strokes to the text, two ways to implement text strokes in PS:

Method 1: Use the Edit menu---stroke and stroke.

1, input text;

2, select "Layer"---grid---text;

3, load the text into the selection, select the "Edit" menu---strokes;

4, in the "Stroke" dialog box set the stroke width and color, and so on, click "OK" to complete the stroke.

Method 2: Use the layer style to stroke.

1, input text;

2, double click on the blue area behind the layer, pop-up "Layer style" dialog box;

3, in the style below tick "strokes", and then in the "Mixed Options" column for the relevant settings;

4, after setting, click the "Good" button to complete the stroke.

In contrast, Method 2 works better, and can be previewed in real time when modifying color and stroke weight. The following is a detailed description of the text strokes in the layer style.

Figure 3 Stroke feature of layer style in PS

In the stroke edit box can be seen that the function is very powerful, stroke thickness can be adjusted to needless to say, but also has a stroke position "external, internal, centered," most commonly used is the external stroke. Of course, there are mixed mode and fill type, relatively complex, here is not much.

Figure 4 PS Stroke edit box

As for the stroke color, you can choose to adjust in the color selector, or in the color state, choose to use a color pen to pick a color on the picture to stroke.

Figure 5 Modifying stroke colors in PS

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• PS Text Tutorial