Ginormous text tutorial

[januaried]

Here is a repost of The Text Tutorial, requested by about a gazillion people. We will be going over the different methods of using text in Photoshop and in GIMP, effects you can use to make text look better or more readable, and you can download some of my favorite fonts here

Comments

[merely_marcus]

Rizny this is one of the uber best tuts on type and text! Thank you.

[januaried]

*blush* Thanks! :D

[notashamed]

YAY! i love text tutorials

[januaried]

LOL thanks!

[januaried]

You're welcome! :D

[moony_blues]

To answer saavikam77's question: there isn't a way to do that in one block for the GIMP. It's annoying, but you have to manipulate GIMP's text manually, either by using Text to Path or manually manipulating the perspective of the layer. Same thing with bevels and glows. If you want to know what you can do with text in the GIMP, run a google search for "GIMP text effects" and you can get some pretty helpful results. :)

[januaried]

Figures. :P Thanks for answering!

[katiemariie]

Wow, this is very, very awesome. Thanks for taking the time to write all this out and post it. I can see you love photoshop and not just because your icon says you do.

[januaried]

Yes, I do indeed, that's why I have the icon. :D Thanks!