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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