[Letmeout]

Can someone tell me how to do this text effect in Photoshop.
You know the "block coloured background" that surrounds the text. Thanks!
that surrounds the text..
Thanks!

[flanree]

Its a task better suited to InDesign or Illustrator where you can centre text in a proper coloured text box. A workaround in Photoshop is type your text and use the rectangle tool to make a shape on a layer below it. Rotate using Edit > Transform.

[Letmeout]

ok thanks,
but what if there is several sentences. and they are not all lined up. eg:

the day can be sunny
.....is over and out right now
and you can see
.....it might be over then and not
but it doesn't really

I've seen this style in poster designs.

[Triangular]

Originally Posted by flanree

Its a task better suited to InDesign or Illustrator

I've been trying to design some posters for the first time recently in phototshop but am finding it difficult, and thought I was somewhat literate in it...Is illustrator better for this kinda stuff?

[flanree]

If you have it, InDesign is the best for this task. When you create a text box you can colour the box independently to the text inside. The text can be centred inside the box. For multiple sentences you kinda need multiple text boxes if they stagger as you describe. The other option is to find a font that has its own box around each letter, similar to Square Frame Negative perhaps.

[FlashD]

Create your images in Illustrator / Photoshop and finish.

Then bring everything into InDesign where typography is added and layout is designed.

[im invisible]

MSPaint is yer only man

[flanree]

MSPaint all the way and while yer at it there's a lovely font called Comic Sans

[5uspect]

Originally Posted by Letmeout

ok thanks,
but what if there is several sentences. and they are not all lined up. eg:

the day can be sunny
.....is over and out right now
and you can see
.....it might be over then and not
but it doesn't really

I've seen this style in poster designs.

It shouldn't be difficult. Layout your text as desired. Add shape layers below the bits of text and transform them as required.

[off.the.walls]

Illustrator. Create 3 different rectangles, then type the words so your first thing, then click away your second one then click away and finally your third, then put each sentence inside the boxes, use the allignment tools in illustrator to center the text in the box and then use the black arrow select tool to turn them make em bigger smaller etc etc.

[banquo]

Originally Posted by flanree

MSPaint all the way and while yer at it there's a lovely font called Comic Sans

Sanskrit, dude, Sanskrit.