by "Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
Published 04/11/2017 at 10:46
by "Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
Published 04/11/2017 at 10:46
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Putting down text on a Photoshop always looks like garbage and it makes it super hard fake text on photos. But , if you type out your text, make a new layer, use the Blur Tool on the new layer over the text, and then delete the text layer? It looks significantly less janky!
Edit: Y’all are some demanding people. I deleted the layers from what I had been working on before I posted this, so here’s a half-assed example of how blurring text on another layer blends it.
"Milky" (jordanmielke)
04/11/2017 at 09:48, STARS: 7
I’m gonna need to see some pics.
"TysMagic" (twjeffery)
04/11/2017 at 10:04, STARS: 1
I think I get the idea, but I agree - can I get a visual aid please and thank you
"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
04/11/2017 at 10:06, STARS: 2
I’ll second the need for pics here. your words that describe how to do words on pictures are insufficient, we need pictures that aid the words in describing how to put words on pictures in pictures words with picture words
"RyanFrew" (ryanfrew)
04/11/2017 at 10:19, STARS: 4
Haha I don’t know if I’ve ever been more surprised not to see an image within a post.
"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
04/11/2017 at 10:50, STARS: 1
Okay, but I’m gonna need pics of step by step instructions :p
"McMike" (mcmike)
04/11/2017 at 10:55, STARS: 1
Can’t you also just simplify the text layer and blur that?
Serious question, I have PS Elements, not the full-blown-bend-me-over-every-month version.
"Eric @ opposite-lock.com" (theyrerolling)
04/11/2017 at 10:55, STARS: 0
The shark still looks fake.
"dogisbadob" (dogisbadob)
04/11/2017 at 10:59, STARS: 0
I wish I knew how to use Photoshop
"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
04/11/2017 at 11:03, STARS: 0
non-serious question, I have mspaint, not even the partially-blown-company-download-prohibited-even-pretend-PS-software
"Xyl0c41n3" (i-am-xyl0c41n3)
04/11/2017 at 11:05, STARS: 3
Yes. You can rasterize the text layer (make the computer think the text is an object instead of still-editable text) and then do whatever you want to it, like blur it.
"facw" (facw)
04/11/2017 at 11:08, STARS: 0
I don’t know, looks a bit too blurry to me, that photo is very sharp.
"jimz" (jimz)
04/11/2017 at 11:10, STARS: 1
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
04/11/2017 at 11:14, STARS: 0
I’ve never thought to try it, but I suspect not. Part of the reason it blends well is that after you remove the text layer, the leftover bits are just what little transferred to the new layer through the blur tool.
I will use CS6 until I die and never touch a later subscription version that isn’t being paid for by someone else.
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
04/11/2017 at 11:15, STARS: 1
Admittedly, I just grabbed a random photo off of Google to show what I meant about using blur to transfer the text to a new layer.
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
04/11/2017 at 11:15, STARS: 3
The best way to learn it to obtain a free older copy and then spend time that you should be working to edit people out of your vacation photos.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
04/11/2017 at 11:24, STARS: 1
Personal recommendation: I use Pixelmator because I don’t want to mortgage my retirement income to Adobe. It’s cheap, supported, and does almost everything you would want to do with Photoshop.
"Illegitimus Prime" (illprime)
04/11/2017 at 11:24, STARS: 1
"Xyl0c41n3" (i-am-xyl0c41n3)
04/11/2017 at 12:06, STARS: 0
Not true. It’s called rasterizing. All you have to do is rasterize the type layer. You can rasterize any editable layer (like vector masks, i.e.: what’s created when you make a new shape with the rectangle tool).
Rasterizing, for all intents and purposes, kind of locks the thing you’ve made into a no-longer-editable object that then allows you to do OTHER edits to it, like blurring it, selecting portions of it to adjust curves and levels, apply filters, or cut, copy and paste, etc.
For example, if you create a text layer with the word “Smart” but accidentally misspell it as “Smrat” you can’t go back and fix the typo after you’ve rasterized the text. You have to undo all the changes to the point before you rasterized that layer, go to a previous snapshot of your project, or you have to start over with a completely new text layer.
"McMike" (mcmike)
04/11/2017 at 12:11, STARS: 1
Never used that, but I use Photoshop Elements. It’s under $100, not a subscripotion, and I’ve been happy with it.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
04/11/2017 at 12:14, STARS: 0
It’s smiles/$ that count.
I just won’t do subscription software. Nope.
"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
04/11/2017 at 13:15, STARS: 0
I have an ‘acquired’ copy of CS4 on my main Win10 desktop......it does all I would ever need it to do. My problem is I don’t have any install methods for it anymore, so if my desktop were to require a format, I wouldn’t be able to easily get it back and I have moved away from using ‘acquired’ copies for several years now.
There’s a pretty decent graphic editing program called Krita which is an open-source alternative to Photoshop. I actually prefer Krita to GIMP as it’s much more Photoshop-esque, though it is missing a few features from Photoshop I miss.
Krita is a decent alternative though - I use it and GIMP on my laptop.