How To Make Text More Vibrant And More Interesting To Read.

Hi guys,

Hoping you might be able to help me out. I'm working on creating a portfolio website to showcase various creative works of mine that combine both my photography, and my writing. The portfolio site I'm building is heavily image orientated so I'm working on a way to use images to present my written work.

My idea at the moment is to break my stories up into manageable 'chunks' and place them over images that help tell stories.

I've been playing around in PS today, trying to work out how this can be done effectively. What I created however, isn't particularly great and I was hoping you guys might have some tips for working with text in Photoshop??

The image below is what I've got so far (very basic and incredibly unfinished!), I used a random font I found that I liked (any things I should look for in a font?), used the skew, and perspective tools after converting to smart object and I created a bit of shadowing under the text. One of the issues I had was that it's awkward to know what will happen to the text when it's distorted so I found myself duplicating the first text layer to skew, then deleting, editing the text a bit and repeating to get the formatting. It was quite a faff, is there an easier way?



I would really appreciate any feedback, constructive criticism, and tips. I'd like to make this Photoshopping process as simple as possible for myself in the future so I can keep creating easily.

Cheers,
KQ

Hi Guys n gals!

I'm helping out a friend to make a few changes to a brochure. Question is can I make editable text fields that my friend can use in a freeware such as acrobat?

This would apply to head/bodytexts. The changes would just mean to replace words and sentences with new ones so no font or colorchanges is needed, however keeping text effects would be great if possible.

I've already tried using forms in acrobat pro9 any other suggestions?

Hi there. First-timer here. Please redirect me if this isn't the right department.
I maintain and upgrade a website for some musician friends of mine. An *actual* artist-designer did the original. I managed to take his main page header, preserve the two names in the upper right, and I can make new page headers with the same font and a partial rendering of the same effect. But I can't get the whole shebang.


Can't see how to insert a pic, so I will attach one. The only part I can get is Bevel and Emboss. Dunno what the rest of the process is. (Also he seems to have used a fatter (bold?) version of Monotype Corsiva than I'm getting in PS. Maybe he made it outside. Maybe he modified it thru the magic of science. Maybe it's Maybelline.

In the end, I could maybe get back to the artist, or have my friends ask him to make a header here and there, but I'm wondering if someone here can reverse-engineer the text effect.

Thanks,
denno

Hi. I am new here. This is my first post. I have Googled my problem, but have not found any real answer. If this has been asked and answered before, and I am sure it probably has--then my apologies.
I am just learning Photoshop. The heading to convert text to outlines is greyed out for me. It is not because I am missing that font, because I am using a font from PS. Does anyone know why this is greyed out? Is there a fix? Or, alternatively, is there a way to work around this? Thanks for all suggestions.

Hello,

I'm new to PS and new to this forum, so be kind! I need to edit the font used in my product category images and to do it I have tried filling the text in with the matching colour, and then retype the text. However the images have been created (as you can see) with a transparent layer over the actual product and in-between the text. So my question is, how can I fill the text in without losing the "transparent" effect? below is an original image and an image where I have removed the text by filling it in


Many thanks, Ben

Saludos desde Puerto Rico.

I've never used photoshop. I made a zen garden-inspired arrangement using a shelf.

I put it as my desktop background but it has a bland background. My idea was to post it here. Please take a look. It would be cool if someone green screened it and designed an interesting background, with normal 4:3 dimensions.

hi guys! reserved here! i just recently started up a new MLG Team for my Gaming Community XGC "Xiled Gaming Community" my team consists of some of the best players within xgc and we need a logo, so i was wondering if someone would be awesome enough to make one for me?

if you decide to what id like is rather simple for right now, all i want is to have like a 3D style text maybe with the first text "XG" in bold and the color to be yellow, now i want all the text to be diagonal starting from the bottom left to the top right if possible. then right under that text i want "Xiled Gamers" same text same color. then behind all the text i was like a shattered glass effect right where the "XG" is going across the whole thing if possible. if someone could do this for me, my whole team and i will be forever grateful!

If a photo has no real background (like a beach, city, or field) and is just a solid color or studio wall, is there a rule for using perspective to make one person appear closer or farther away than another person?
Can I just use the guide tools to go as close to the center as possible and use that as the perspective vanishing point?

Hey Guys , hows u all doing ? good afternoon from india
I have a small difficulty with an image i came accross the web



now if you look closely the squares that have text on them , they are not exactly flat , rather they are kind of curved on the edges , i tried adding a drop shadow and doing skew , perspective etc . but could't really figure out how to get the curved shape .

if somebody can just vaguely describe to me how should i go about creating such awesome squares it would be great . no need to post or something , if someone can just give me a fair idea , i'll try it and post the result .

Thanks .

Gautam,

Hello I am new to this forum and I joined because I need help, I am not very good with Photoshop but I am learning. I was wondering if there is anyone out there who could help me make a logo? I tried to make my own (see below) but to me it just feels boring and flat... TGE stands for The Gaming Elite and is a Steam group for people who like to play CS:GO. I would really appreciate any help with this and it doesnt need to look like the one I made you can go crazy when suggesting ideas Thank you for your time.