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jordanbcreativedesign
Inspiring
February 23, 2019
Question

Text into block shape?

  • February 23, 2019
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all im trying to do is, something simple but its beyond me and i cant think how do do it, i have captured word/logo from adobe capture, i would like to turn this into a block of colour just the same shape as the ”text”  so that it looks the same shape but its just a block of colour, no individual letters visable etc , if you know what i mean?,  any help apreciated. cheers

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    jane-e
    jane-e
    Adobe Expert
    February 23, 2019

    jordanbanimaton  wrote

    block of colour just the same shape as the ”text”  so that it looks the same shape but its just a block of colour, no individual letters visible etc , if you know what i mean?, 

    Hi Jordan,

    I have no idea what you mean, so I came up with these three, because I can't see any reason for the previous examples, although they answer your question better.

    I think we need you to chime in and give us feedback or an example?

    ~ Jane

    J
    jordanbcreativedesignAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 24, 2019

    like the bottom ^ one but main block of colour , but keeping the shape , but all letters filled etc

    davescm
    davescm
    Adobe Expert
    February 25, 2019

    jordanbanimaton  wrote

    Hi Jane, yes thats perfectly the sort of look i'm after. thanks for posting, sorry for the confusion.

    Hi Jordan,

    I’m glad it works for you — please ask if you run into any issues while you are doing it.

    ~ Jane


    If you don't have Illustrator and therefore have to do this in Photoshop then:

    1. Start with your text and adjust the kerning in the Character Panel

    2. Right click on the text layer in the layers panel and choose Convert to Shape

    3. Use the direct selection tool (white arrow key) to select individual points and move/delete them as required

    Dave

      Norman Sanders
      Norman Sanders
      Brainiac
      February 23, 2019

      If this is what you had in mind choose Type > Rasterize. Next, use the Magic Wand to Select the type (not Continuous in the Options bar, and then Edit > Stroke and adjust the number of pixels to create a block of lines or the entire paragraph of type.

      Semaphoric
      Semaphoric
      Adobe Expert
      February 23, 2019

      Maybe the Minimum filter?

          

      Bojan Živković11378569
      Bojan Živković11378569
      Adobe Expert
      February 23, 2019

      Is this what are you looking for? It is simple, Stroke set to outside applied to text (Type layer).

      davescm
      davescm
      Adobe Expert
      February 23, 2019

      Hi

      Sorry I am not sure what you mean by "the same shape as the text" but "no individual letters available". Perhaps you could show a screenshot of what you are trying to achieve using a brush on a separate layer then we may be able to help you better.

      Dave

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