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Post by philk on Mar 29, 2017 18:45:57 GMT
Every Christmas I change pictures, and put mates faces into famous and silly pics. Good laugh at Christmas Eve along with several drinks.
Normally I can figure out how to do this or that.
This time I'm stumped. I'm doing a jokey flash Gordon cover, and can't make the letters slant the way I need them to.
It's stuck left small to right larger whjereas I wnt the lettering to go the other way (and it would be nice to change the colours in the name too (changing "Gordon" to "Telford" !)
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Post by Major Major on Mar 29, 2017 21:28:45 GMT
Hi Phil -
And welcome to PSE&M!
It would be really helpful if you could post what you're working with so we could see it. (To do that, just click on the Add image to post via imgbb.com button at the upper right of your message.)
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Post by Moto on Mar 30, 2017 1:10:51 GMT
This time I'm stumped. I'm doing a jokey flash Gordon cover, and can't make the letters slant the way I need them to. It's stuck left small to right larger whjereas I wnt the lettering to go the other way  Adjust the Warp Text Fisheye settings1. Warp Text Style = Fisheye 2. Bend must be zero 3. Horizontal Distortion: For large to small use a negative number. For small to large use a positive number. The actual number to use is your choice. 4. If you want the bottom of the text to be perfectly horizontal rotate the text line. |
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Post by Moto on Mar 30, 2017 1:22:04 GMT
(and it would be nice to change the colours in the name too (changing "Gordon" to "Telford" !) If you want to change the text and text colors on the background image please post the background image.Use Major Major's instructions on how to do it. |
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Post by Moto on Mar 30, 2017 20:32:12 GMT
Is this what your looking for? Note: I forgot to match the colors.  Flash symbol from clipartfox.com |
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Post by philk on Mar 31, 2017 8:43:30 GMT
Thanks for the quick replies chaps ! how to up loadAs you can see, started removing Gordon, actually,did put Telford on but couldn't get it running small left to bigger right to match Flash on the other side. It'd take a while to colour them white and red to match but Ive got til Christmas Eve 2017 !!  - sorry about the delay. Dealings with work etc Well tried to upload the image but it's not letting me. "An error occured" Got it eventually by using Waterfox instead of Opera ! (Below) |
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Post by philk on Mar 31, 2017 8:47:06 GMT
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Post by Moto on Mar 31, 2017 20:56:11 GMT
As you can see, started removing Gordon, actually,did put Telford on but couldn't get it running small left to bigger right to match Flash on the other side. You can make Text small to large by following my above post Large to Small Text. Read step 3. The problems I see are that you need the same font as the poster and Elements Text Warp doesn't have an option for that type of warp. One possibility is to do something like this image.  |
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Post by philk on Apr 1, 2017 10:38:15 GMT
As you can see, started removing Gordon, actually,did put Telford on but couldn't get it running small left to bigger right to match Flash on the other side. You can make Text small to large by following my above post Large to Small Text. Read step 3. The problems I see are that you need the same font as the poster and Elements Text Warp doesn't have an option for that type of warp. One possibility is to do something like this image. Thats not at all bad, (very good actually !) but I was after more the like the original. But failing that - no qualms at all about using this idea !  Here is where I came to a full stop !!! You know, warp text. But it only seems to "warp" one way !  |
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Post by philk on Apr 5, 2017 14:19:38 GMT
Yeah I replace the faces, hence "Ming" will be a mate of mine John (looking daft as usual) Terry Telford will be Flash Telford and the ladies in our company Maureen and Stephanie will be the two females !
Think I might have an answer to the above.
Type out the Telford, reverse it, copy it and use the warp in the original way and reverse THAT !
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Post by Moto on Apr 5, 2017 20:07:10 GMT
Yeah I replace the faces, hence "Ming" will be a mate of mine John (looking daft as usual) Terry Telford will be Flash Telford and the ladies in our company Maureen and Stephanie will be the two females ! Think I might have an answer to the above. Type out the Telford, reverse it, copy it and use the warp in the original way and reverse THAT ! Nice - creative problem solving. I would like to see what the Telford warp by itself looks like. |
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Post by cats4jan on Apr 5, 2017 21:13:08 GMT
There are some options of the text tool and of the transform tool that might help you get your desired result.  Here's the menu once you choose 'warp' from the text tool options - use all three sliders to achieve your result - plus, there are other 'styles' you can try instead of "arch" - I just grabbed arch for theh purpose of showing you the menus  After you warp, if you want your text to slant differently - click Control/Command T while on the text layer and the Transform function will be activated. Use "skew" - grab one of the corners and pull. You can also "rotate" your word to get the correct slant.  |
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