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tamaraeileengalloway
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February 26, 2018
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Transparency Fill Effect Not Working, White Boxes with Bitmap Font

  • February 26, 2018
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I can't get Transparency effects to work as they should. When I make the fill of my object even slightly less than 100%, my text disappears.

This concerns my own bitmap font, made using Fontself.

It would be good if my text on Layer 1 could be superimposed directly on my photo on Layer 2.

At the moment my bitmap font has white boxes around all of the characters, which I don't want.

How can I remove these?

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    Correct answer franz_h

    Hi, it sounds like your letters retained a white background, so you can do 2 things to fix this:

    • Either you remove the white background from your original lettering image and recreate the font from scratch (you can use the Magic Wand or any other tool to delete the white areas - see this tutorial https://help.fontself.com/making-fonts/create-a-color-bitmap-font-step-by-step )
    • Or you could just try assigning a Multiply or Darken mode to your font layer so the white blends with the underlying layer.

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    franz_h
    franz_hCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    February 27, 2018

    Hi, it sounds like your letters retained a white background, so you can do 2 things to fix this:

    • Either you remove the white background from your original lettering image and recreate the font from scratch (you can use the Magic Wand or any other tool to delete the white areas - see this tutorial https://help.fontself.com/making-fonts/create-a-color-bitmap-font-step-by-step )
    • Or you could just try assigning a Multiply or Darken mode to your font layer so the white blends with the underlying layer.
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    tamaraeileengallowayAuthor
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    March 3, 2018

    DearFranz,

    I’vebeen trying to follow the instructions in the article create-a-color-bitmap-font-step-by-step.

    NowI drew my letters in pencil. When using the third eyedropper and adjusting withthe right-side slider, if I make my image lighter so the unwanted backgroundpixels get fainter, the letters themselves get too faint.

    SoI used the dodge tool to lighten the background instead. I’m wondering if that’sOK or not.

    AfterI used the magic wand tool with a Tolerance of 10 and the Contiguous optionunchecked, and inverted the selection, I pressed Select & Mask in thetoolbar.

    However,this just previewed each letter, and didn’t actually extract it.

    SoI clicked Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal Selection to remove the background.

    Eachof the letters was already on its own layer, ‘a’ was on layer a, ‘b’ on layer band so on, from when I tried to make a font before.

    However,when I select all the layers from a to z and in Fontself click the a-z button, the same as before, it doesn’t work. Fontself gets stuck with creating the glyphs.

    Pleasehelp me with this, as I’m not sure what to try next.

    Bestwishes,

    Tamara

    On Wednesday, 28 February 2018, 01:58:37 GMT, franz_h <forums_noreply@adobe.com> wrote:

    Transparency Fill Effect Not Working, White Boxes with Bitmap Font

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    Hi, it sounds like your letters retained a white background, so you can do 2 things to fix this:

    - Either you remove the white background from your original lettering image and recreate the font from scratch (you can use the Magic Wand or any other tool to delete the white areas - see this tutorial https://help.fontself.com/making-fonts/create-a-color-bitmap-font-step-by-step ) https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*Nv7f2BJ_du0C_FHFcdg1KA.png

    - Or you could just try assigning a Multiply or Darken mode to your font layer so the white blends with the underlying layer.

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