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How do you get text with outlines that are different from the colour of the rest of the text?

I'm trying to modify the serious cat picture to read "I are serious cat this is serious book" to put on my research notebook. I found the picture without text, but I can't get the right text. *pouts*

How do you get text with outlines that are different from the colour of the rest of the text?

I'm trying to modify the serious cat picture to read "I are serious cat this is serious book" to put on my research notebook. I found the picture without text, but I can't get the right text. *pouts*Use the official I Can Has Cheezburger? lolcat generator. (http://www.thecheezburgerfactory.com/)

How do you get text with outlines that are different from the colour of the rest of the text?

I'm trying to modify the serious cat picture to read "I are serious cat this is serious book" to put on my research notebook. I found the picture without text, but I can't get the right text. *pouts*

EDIT: Oh, it's a color thing. I have no idea, but you could try putting in the text in the outline color in a slightly larger font on a layer between the cat and the text.

Gimpin' ain't easy, but it's necessary. Don't let this get you down.

So did Bruce Willis kill him or just knock him out?

Or did Marceles Wallis finish him off like he did with Zed?

We'll never now.

Use the official I Can Has Cheezburger? lolcat generator. (http://www.thecheezburgerfactory.com/)
omgz! laziness = awesome!

EDIT: Oh, it's a color thing. I have no idea, but you could try putting in the text in the outline color in a slightly larger font on a layer between the cat and the text.

Gimpin' ain't easy, but it's necessary. Don't let this get you down.She wants the text to have an outline: ie white text with a black border.

The gimp way is to do it yourself.

I'd suggest Inkscape. You write the text, the add a stroke afterwards.

EDIT: Oh, it's a color thing. I have no idea, but you could try putting in the text in the outline color in a slightly larger font on a layer between the cat and the text.

Gimpin' ain't easy, but it's necessary. Don't let this get you down.
Well, it's more an outline thing. I basically want a black outline with white text.

This business with the lolcat generator doesn't seem to work so well. :(

She wants the text to have an outline: ie white text with a black border.

The gimp way is to do it yourself.

I'd suggest Inkscape. You write the text, the add a stroke afterwards.
I have paint... are you basically suggesting that I write it in white and go in paint/inkscape and put lines of black around the white text?

I have paint... are you basically suggesting that I write it in white and go in paint/inkscape and put lines of black around the white text?Inkscape you select the text the you can change its stroke (outline). By default, the stroke is invisible. You don't outline, Inkspace does because you might do it.

I think that this is how Photoshop does it too.

Inkscape you select the text the you can change its stroke (outline). By default, the stroke is invisible. You don't outline, Inkspace does because you might do it.

I think that this is how Photoshop does it too.
Hmm... so I have to get a new program to do this easily.

Hmm.. maybe I'll get to work on this tomorrow and go to bed now. :S

Hmm... so I have to get a new program to do this easily.

Hmm.. maybe I'll get to work on this tomorrow and go to bed now. :SThe first mistake was mistaking the Gimp for something useful.

The first mistake was mistaking the Gimp for something useful.
haha. Maybe.

Well the background and foreground colors should in someway constitute main text color and outline color. To get outline color you usually have to expand the stroke width. You can always do it the convoluted way by writing text, selecting it, expanding the selection x pixels, promote it to a layer and move it behind the text later then fill it with the outlined color.

http://www.obscurasite.com/artstuff/tutorials/gimp-text-outline/

If that isn't enough, I suggest you do what I did, and google the words gimp, text and outline.

http://www.obscurasite.com/artstuff/tutorials/gimp-text-outline/

If that isn't enough, I suggest you do what I did, and google the words gimp, text and outline.
Haha, everyone says "gimp is crap and can't do outlines" then you show how to do it and prove they should have said "our gimp skills are crap, we don't know how to do outlines".:D

Another way is to:
1. Click the "create path from text" button located under the font selection stuff.
2. In the Edit menu on the image window, select "stroke path".

http://i0005.photobucket.com/albums/0005/icanhascheezburger/2007/9/9/5/128338145810312500IizcheezBurger.jpg

my kitties!

I can't figure out how to get Photoshop to do text outlines. You would think a $400 program wouldn't purposefully made difficult to use. Adobe can go drown in a toilet.

http://www.obscurasite.com/artstuff/tutorials/gimp-text-outline/

If that isn't enough, I suggest you do what I did, and google the words gimp, text and outline.
I fail at the gimp.

I can't figure out how to get Photoshop to do text outlines. You would think a $400 program wouldn't purposefully made difficult to use. Adobe can go drown in a toilet.

why do you suppose they put out photoshop books?

try googling it. there are tons of photoshop tutorials on the net.

Oh, I found a different tutorial dealy, but I need to be able to open a layers dialogue window and I can't find where I do that (I tried the layers menu and nothing jumped out at me).

edit: Oh, I'm dumb, there's a dialogues menu.

Make the text in the color of the outline, select it, shrink the selection, fill it with the color for the inside. Should work :)

Yay!

Now I just have to find the cable for my printer.

I followed these instructions (except the shadows et c) http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Text-Blending-In-Gimp-339-1.html

Print the cat pic. Draw the words on it with a pen. Scan it back in.

When asked what amazing extension you used to get that effect, smile mysteriously.

why do you suppose they put out photoshop books?

try googling it. there are tons of photoshop tutorials on the net.
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Not only do they put out a $400 program that is purposefully difficult to figure out how to use the most basic functions, other idiots suggest you go buy $50-100 books to figure out how to use those basic functions.

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Not only do they put out a $400 program that is purposefully difficult to figure out how to use the most basic functions, other idiots suggest you go buy $50-100 books to figure out how to use those basic functions.

i dunno. ive never found any program as complicated as photoshop to be easy to figure out. there is always something that you have to look up somewhere.

i dunno. ive never found any program as complicated as photoshop to be easy to figure out. there is always something that you have to look up somewhere.
No, Photoshop makes it purposefully difficult. How do you outline text? Fuck if I know. How do you rotate text to an angle? Fuck if I know. I use Paintshop Pro 8 and it is right there inherent in the text tool.

No, Photoshop makes it purposefully difficult. How do you outline text?

How do you mean "outline text"?

Fuck if I know. How do you rotate text to an angle? [/QUOTE]

By putting your cursor at the corner of the selection box, move it until a rotate icon comes up, click, and rotate.

Photoshop clearly isn't targeted at people who put text into their pictures. It's intended for modifying photographs ... adding text over the picture is more a typesetting thing, so you are supposed to buy Pagemaker for that (or whatever they call it now.)

The picture as a background, the colour and pixel effects exactly the way you wanted them, but the overlying text still a vector thing the publisher can fiddle with. They got that right, bless their muddy fingers.

By putting your cursor at the corner of the selection box, move it until a rotate icon comes up, click, and rotate.
Wrong, you have to CTRL-click.

Wrong, you have to CTRL-click.

Yes, you're right.


Actually, sorry, that was a lie. You're wrong. You can rotate text in exactly the same way as you rotate any other layer.

Yes, you're right.


Actually, sorry, that was a lie. You're wrong. You can rotate text in exactly the same way as you rotate any other layer.

That's rotating a layer, not text.

That's rotating a layer, not text.

No, that's rotating text. It just happens to be the same way you rotate a layer, mainly because it seems to treat text as a form of layer.

In fact, you're so wrong that I just opened Photoshop, wrote "Teh_pantless_hero is wrong" and rotated it by doing exactly what I said you do. Because I can.

No, that's rotating text. It just happens to be the same way you rotate a layer, mainly because it seems to treat text as a form of layer.

In fact, you're so wrong that I just opened Photoshop, wrote "Teh_pantless_hero is wrong" and rotated it by doing exactly what I said you do. Because I can.

"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

No, that's rotating text.

Technically, but no, that is not the "rotate text" method. There is a rotate text method, but you have to use the CTRL click because having to press extra buttons they don't tell you about to get stuff done that they could easily make available straight gives Adobe a hardon.

No, that's rotating text. It just happens to be the same way you rotate a layer, mainly because it seems to treat text as a form of layer.

In fact, you're so wrong that I just opened Photoshop, wrote "Teh_pantless_hero is wrong" and rotated it by doing exactly what I said you do. Because I can.

"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

EDIT: Well, since that is wildly irrelevant, I'll just ask you for proof. Post the pic.

I can't figure out how to get Photoshop to do text outlines. You would think a $400 program wouldn't purposefully made difficult to use. Adobe can go drown in a toilet.

Layer - Layer style - Stroke.

Layer - Layer style - Stroke.

See, that is absurd.

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Not only do they put out a $400 program that is purposefully difficult to figure out how to use the most basic functions, other idiots suggest you go buy $50-100 books to figure out how to use those basic functions.Relatively speaking PS is one of the easier ones to figure out.

"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

EDIT: Well, since that is wildly irrelevant, I'll just ask you for proof. Post the pic.

Post what pic?

Technically, but no, that is not the "rotate text" method. There is a rotate text method, but you have to use the CTRL click because having to press extra buttons they don't tell you about to get stuff done that they could easily make available straight gives Adobe a hardon.

Ctrl click does nothing. Nothing changes when I do it. Nothing happens when I do it.

The way I do it, text rotates perfectly.

On top of that, Adobe says that "my" method is how you do it, so I think I'll stick with it.

This from the "Resize or transform a type bounding box" article of the CS3 help:
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8169/rotateco9.jpg

And that's exactly what I said to do (the shift-click is optional, it just limits it to 15 degree increments, without it you can rotate to any angle by moving the cursor).

So did Bruce Willis kill him or just knock him out?

Or did Marceles Wallis finish him off like he did with Zed?

We'll never now.

I think his collar probably strangled him when he was hanging there unconscious.

The hell? That gimp looked like pimp when I clicked on the link. This thread now is a disappointment to me :(
*engages warp drive*
*GIMPslaps*

The hell? That gimp looked like pimp when I clicked on the link. This thread now is a disappointment to me :(