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Ry

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What are some of your secrets on making text? My text looks too plain all the time, how can I make it stand out? Im talking about crisp solid colors and text that really shines.
 
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Come up with your own style. If you use everybody's secrets then your product wont really be your work now will it...

If you want to do it the quick way...use the sharpen filters and try using the image adjustments.
 
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a simple font can be powerful as well *peep below*, but if you wanna get outragious add textures and lighting effects (lighting effects can make text stand out) use gradients and mess with hue/sat. and/or curves...
 

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Juan Million said:
Come up with your own style. If you use everybody's secrets then your product wont really be your work now will it...

I have my own style, but I think i am lacking as far as text goes. I was looking for some pointers and tips, Im not trying to bite anyones style.
 
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playa RY said:



I have my own style, but I think i am lacking as far as text goes. I was looking for some pointers and tips, Im not trying to bite anyones style.
Naw, you took that the wrong way homie. What I meant was that there are several ways to clean up text. I wasn't sayin you're tryna bite anyone...just sayin that different people use different "methods" <--(guess I shoulda used that word instead of styles) of text doctoring.

Some pointers from me would be...play around with the blur, sharpen and smudge tools...play around with the hue/sat...and play around with the brightness/contrast.
 
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1. Try using "mess" like splats, dots scraps anyshit scanned in on the computer, type the text normal and then add the pattern to a new layer overtop, use the magic wand on that layer and then u'll have a unique pattern selection, then select the layer with the text on it wit' the pattern still highlighted press delete - now all those bits of pattern will be cut out of your text which can give it a good weathered or old look - try it.

2. try overlapping texture and pictures over your text using different transparency settings like (normal, colour, hue, difference, mutliply) and then flatten image

3. Draw stuff by hand or photograph montages of letters and then scan them in and edit them in the computer. can look cool

4. Use a 3d text program or use vector tools, i like to use the polygon laso tool to draw 3d text with a then fill each side with a graident fill to make it look 3d - similar to graffitti and use the spray can for extra details and blending of colours

5. Try using the same text but with different filters and transparences on them over two different layers. example type "type" and blur it loads, type it again but this time leave it as it is and place it above the blurred word and use transparency is you want (the edges of the blur will show)
 
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Everytime a nigga ask for one of yall's advice on some graphics, yall think they trying to steal your damn style! It aint even like that. Nigga just need some help in a certain area of his skills. Damn!
 
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Mista Sinista said:
Everytime a nigga ask for one of yall's advice on some graphics, yall think they trying to steal your damn style! It aint even like that. Nigga just need some help in a certain area of his skills. Damn!
Well look at what the thread is named...Text SECRETS.

If everyone told you their secrets then they wouldn't be secrets anymore now would they...
 
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Juan Million said:


Well look at what the thread is named...Text SECRETS.

If everyone told you their secrets then they wouldn't be secrets anymore now would they...
Nigga listen.....he didnt say your text secrets, he just said secrets. Meaning....he wanna know some secrets, not necessarily meaning yours! Like I said, dont nobody want yall fuckin style. Nigga just be trying to improve a certain area of of his skills. Let yall guard down. I know it was a point when yall asked niggaz questions.
 
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Mista Sinista said:

Nigga listen.....he didnt say your text secrets, he just said secrets. Meaning....he wanna know some secrets, not necessarily meaning yours! Like I said, dont nobody want yall fuckin style. Nigga just be trying to improve a certain area of of his skills. Let yall guard down. I know it was a point when yall asked niggaz questions.
Calm down homie. I'm just givin my comments...if he didn't necessarily want my comments then maybe I missed the "Everyone except Juan" sign. All I'm sayin is I can give tips like I did.....asking for secrets is too much.

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Yeah Sinista is right, I just need some work on Text and needed some tips. I guess I worded things wrong by saying "secrets". Thanks for the tips y'all, you gave me something to practice...