This is completely brilliant! Thank you so much for taking the time to write this. :) It's very helpful!
(you can't use this and still blur your text though, unfortunately. The stroke, if blurred, becomes this crazy ugly mess.) I think you can do, like, a fake stroke and then you can blur your text and it should still looks nice. :) You do fake stroke by copying your text layer, then the layer below you change to the color you want your stroke to be, and you blur this layer a little bit. Then you copy the blurred layer about a million times, and then with them all added together it looks like a stroke! And after you've merged them you can still change the blend mode or add texture to it or lower the opacity or whatever. And you have your text-text on a separate layer that you can blur however much you want. Uhm. At least I think that would work...
You would think I would have thought of that trick, but no. Thank you so much for mentioning it! And then I could blur the stroke layer as well. That's brilliant. :D
Sooner or later you'll get bored by hearing - well, reading :D - me say YOU'RE AMAZING!', but YOU TOTALLY ARE. I love your tuts/guides. And not only because they're helpful, I must say. I enjoy reading your tuts/guides because they're funny to read. ♥ (Old Sans Black and Folks Bold/Black are my default fonts too! They're so versatile!)
However! Here's my tip for you: Once you've got your text finalized (make sure you are absolutely sure there's nothing else you need to do to it because this trick will render you unable to edit it again in any great detail), rasterize the text layer. When I'm going to rasterize my text, I always duplicate the text layer and rasterize the copy, then I turn the original text layer invisible. This way, I can always go back to the proper text layer and change it. Yeah, probably you already do this way. But just in case, this a useful trick I learned from experience :D
I'll probably never get tired of hearing that. You're very sweet. ♥ And I am really glad you find them funny! Sometimes I worry that I'm the only one who'll find them funny (and I only find them funny because I wrote them *headdesk*).
(Aren't they great? I adore them so much.)
I do that a lot with images so I don't lose my base, etc, but oddly enough I never remember to do that with text. Strange. But thank you for the reminder! It would make things a lot easier for sure!
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Downloading those fonts. :)
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It's very helpful!
(you can't use this and still blur your text though, unfortunately. The stroke, if blurred, becomes this crazy ugly mess.)
I think you can do, like, a fake stroke and then you can blur your text and it should still looks nice. :)
You do fake stroke by copying your text layer, then the layer below you change to the color you want your stroke to be, and you blur this layer a little bit. Then you copy the blurred layer about a million times, and then with them all added together it looks like a stroke! And after you've merged them you can still change the blend mode or add texture to it or lower the opacity or whatever. And you have your text-text on a separate layer that you can blur however much you want.
Uhm. At least I think that would work...
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You would think I would have thought of that trick, but no. Thank you so much for mentioning it! And then I could blur the stroke layer as well. That's brilliant. :D
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(Old Sans Black and Folks Bold/Black are my default fonts too! They're so versatile!)
However! Here's my tip for you:
Once you've got your text finalized (make sure you are absolutely sure there's nothing else you need to do to it because this trick will render you unable to edit it again in any great detail), rasterize the text layer.
When I'm going to rasterize my text, I always duplicate the text layer and rasterize the copy, then I turn the original text layer invisible. This way, I can always go back to the proper text layer and change it.
Yeah, probably you already do this way. But just in case, this a useful trick I learned from experience :D
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(Aren't they great? I adore them so much.)
I do that a lot with images so I don't lose my base, etc, but oddly enough I never remember to do that with text. Strange. But thank you for the reminder! It would make things a lot easier for sure!
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