black borders

Kearly · Post by **Kearly** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:32 pm

Hi. This question is specifically for photoshop, although if there is a solution which I can implement in premiere, I will certainly try it out.

For some parts of my AMV project I have been importing images and text. Quite often, these images look anywhere from decent to excellent around the edges (I use the blur tool on the edges). When I imported text however, the edges were decent but the words have a very "imposed" feeling. I realized that to reduce this, I would need to put a moderate (in thickness) black border around the text. I am currently doing it the hard way, by brushing the edges manually with a black small point brush, but this looks somewhat sloppy and less professional.

Is there any setting or filter etc that can give my text (or images for that matter) an automatic black border? For that matter is there any filter which can give my text a shadow or otherwise enhance its appearance?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:48 pm

Select the level with the text in it, select all, then Edit --> Stroke...

That'll put a border around the text, or on the edge, or on the inside of the edge, depending on how you set the options.

Kearly · Post by **Kearly** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:53 pm

That was fast. I actually came back here to say I discovered it myself, but you beat me to it

Thanks for the advice anyway, and I noticed that in the "layer" section there are a lot of helpful tools to beautify images, especially text.

saonome_01 · Post by **saonome_01** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 7:46 am

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Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:28 am

saonome_01 wrote:hi its my first time here

Please refrain from posts that have nothing to do with the topic.

This forum has no place for threads that say no more than "hi, I'm new here".

Anymore.

On the other hand, if you've got a question that needs answering, by all means start a thread in the appropriate board and we'll be happy to help you.

Well, some of us will, at any rate.

bum · Post by **bum** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:04 am

scintilla, if theirs any n00b that needs a bit of torture then i woent mind helping out

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 12:02 pm

saonome_01 wrote:hi its my first time here

That's not all that funny.

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But, welcome.

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saonome_01 wrote:hi its my first time here

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