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Increasing Text Thickness - Simple Steps

Community Beginner ,
Feb 22, 2021 Feb 22, 2021

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Hey all,

I'm a novice Photoshopper and hoping a kind soul can help. I have searched for this answer but cannot get it right. I believe this is simple - and hope someone can describe clear steps to solve the issue!

 

1) I have a text box. It is a three letter acronym. I have selected size/font etc.

2) I wish to make the text itself thicker - not bigger, or further spaced apart - simply, thicker.

 

Can anyone tell me how to do that?  It's just a text box with 3 letters in it. Which I need to make thicker.

 

Thanks!

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Community Expert , Feb 22, 2021 Feb 22, 2021

If you want to thicken a font you can use Stroke in Layer Styles.

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Community Expert ,
Feb 22, 2021 Feb 22, 2021

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Could you please post screenshots with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Character, Options Bar, …) visible? 

What is the font you used? 

Does the font have other Styles (light, roman, bold, black, …)? 

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Feb 22, 2021 Feb 22, 2021

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Thanks for your reply. I've kept this very simple but hopefully you can see - the font is Arial, the size is 16pt and it is in bold, with Smooth style. It is a text box on a background which is a rectangle filled in green. That's it. 

 

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If you want to thicken a font you can use Stroke in Layer Styles.

hello.jpg

 

 

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Feb 22, 2021 Feb 22, 2021

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Fabulous! I had tried that earlier but through random trial and error I have gotten to what I needed!

 

Thank you both for helping!

 

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 22, 2021 Feb 22, 2021

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For any complete newbs like my stumbling onto this, follow these steps:

 

1) Double click the text box in the layers area

2) This brings up a menu, including "Stroke" - click on that

3) In this, select "Outside" from "Position", choose your fill colour (same as text) and select Size - 1pt did the job for me.

 

 

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Feb 22, 2021 Feb 22, 2021

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The corners may suffer with the LAyer Style Stroke, though, whereas a Stroke on a Shape Layer can maintain unrounded corners. 

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Participant ,
Dec 19, 2023 Dec 19, 2023

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Unfortunately, the smallest stroke thickness is 1px. I had to triple my image size to get the font thickness to a good size.
Any good reason why fractions are not allowed here?

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Dec 19, 2023 Dec 19, 2023

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Yes, Photohop is pixel oriented image editing software. 

And have you tried a Shape Layer Stroke instead of the Layer Style?

Edit: That Stroke allows for fractions as it is vector based, though vector output is only possible in certain file formats. 

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Dec 19, 2023 Dec 19, 2023

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Indeed, that works much better. I had a bit of a hard time figuring out how to apply that to text, though. Because apparently it cannot be applied to text. I had to "Type > Convert to Shape" first. Then swithch to the Path Selection tool, as seen in your screenshot.

Sure, Photohop is pixel oriented. But then, why can I apply fractions to path strokes, and not to Layer Style strokes?

Thank you!

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Shape Layer Strokes are (more or less) vector data, though vector output is only possible in certain file formats. 

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