IR CS2/PS CS2 Tut: Outlined Transparent Text

[Ranil]

A lot of people might already now how to do this, but for those of you who are still new to PS CS2 or IR CS2, you can look at this tut for reference on how to make your text transparent with an outline.

Step One: Place your text. Any font will work.

Step Two: Apply a one pixel thick stroke. Go to Layer>Layer Style>Stroke to do this.

Step Three: Go to Blending Options in the window that comes up when you apply the stroke and then click the blend mode drop down arrow. Set it to either overlay, soft light, color burn, or color dodge. Either one of those will make it transparent. There might be other modes that will work for this that I haven't mentioned as well.

And that's all there is to it! ^^ Here's a sig I made with an example of outlined transparent text. This tut might possibly work on other versions of PS or IR, but I'm not sure.



I would have provided an image of this tut, but unfortunately...I don't know how.

[Panique]

Nice tut, Kynnella! :3

Simple and straightforward. ^^
I'm not sure if I've tried that (only have PS7, too, so I hope it works) but it's an interesting technique.

[Ranil]

Yes, thank you, Pani.

There's other ways to make transparent text with an outline too. One other way is to set the text to 0% opacity with the stroke at 100% opacity, I believe. I never tried that way of doing it, but I can see if it works.

[Panique]

You know?
The text kinda looks bubbled.
If you worked off that effect, you could make a more 3D text effect. o:

[Ranil]

Actually, that's a bevel over the Forte font...but yeah, I could mess around with the effect to give the text a more 3D look.