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  • 15-08-2012 10:10pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8


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


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 484 ✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 217 ✭✭Triangular


    flanree wrote: »
    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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 484 ✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 865 ✭✭✭FlashD


    Create your images in Illustrator / Photoshop and finish.

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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    MSPaint is yer only man


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 484 ✭✭flanree


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


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,520 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Letmeout wrote: »
    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


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

    Sanskrit, dude, Sanskrit.


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