Notice the type changes color as you choose the new color.Īs you can see, we have a lot of flexibility with the outlined text and it keeps it’s quality, no matter how many times you shrink, or enlarge it, or modify it. We are keeping it nice and clean and choosing black as the color, by clicking the black color swatch.
Go to the top of the tool option bar and click on the Fill box.Ĭhoose a new color (or pattern, or gradient if you prefer). Select the Direct selection tool (it’s different than the move tool)
You can also change the fill color of the text at any time, as well as adding a stroke outline if you want, because it’s now a vector shape.Ĭhoose the type layer in the layers panel
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(Tip: You can Control-drag each corner in free transform mode without having to right-click and choose Distort).Ĭhanging the fill color of the text. Right click for the options and choose Distortĭrag the corners to change the text block’s shape. Most of these options aren’t available to regular text layers.ĭrag each of the corners of the bounding box to reshape the way the text is on the page.Ĭhoose the other text layer and press cmd/ctrl +T Right click inside the box to see all the options. This will take you into free transform mode and you will see this wireframe box around the text (this is called a bounding box). With the type layer selected in the Layers panel, Press Cmd/Ctrl +T Transforming the Text in Photoshop Step 8 You have lost none of the quality, sharpness or edge definition, and converted the type to shape layers. You will notice the layers panel now displays the text layers as shape layers. Right click on the type in the layers panel. Click on one of the type layers in the panel to select itĬonverting text to a vector outline Step 6 Here is the layers panel, you can see what it looks like. You can see the 2 pieces of text on the page here, pretty simple stuff. Let’s add a second line of text, here is the font choice for this. Here is the font choice that I used.Ĭlick into your document and begin typing We are going to add some text.Ĭhoose the type tool. I composited Jessie as Battle Angel Alita into a background. Let’s start with a photo I shot recently of model/cosplayer Jessie Pridemore (Rufflebutt Cosplay).
Turning Text into a custom shape outline (Battle Angel Alita) This is also what you do when sending something off to print to some printers that ask you to outline your fonts before printing. This tutorial gives you an alternative to rasterizing, where you keep the quality of the text, no matter what. As soon as you rasterize, it’s no longer text, but a bitmap, which can’t scale without losing quality. The only problem is when you want to do certain types of transforming, you have to rasterize. The second type of outline, is for quality, flexibility and production work, this is covered in this tutorial.Ī great thing about text, or type in Photoshop is that it’s vector, as all real fonts are. The first, is an effect where you create an outline on the type, such as a stroke or bevel.
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