Hi. I am doing a presentation which consists of images each with a 2-3
rows comment. How can I add text to an image in photoshop so that it
looks like an subtitle? Essentially I want to add black (and somewhat
blurred) 1-pixel edges to white text. How can I do that?
Thank you.

"CS" <centura_sibiu@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. I am doing a presentation which consists of images each with a 2-3
> rows comment. How can I add text to an image in photoshop so that it
> looks like an subtitle? Essentially I want to add black (and somewhat
> blurred) 1-pixel edges to white text. How can I do that?

Type the subtitle into the picture using the color white. Use a text-box for
best control. Drag it where you want it. Under Layer Blending Options, take
Outer Glow and give it a radius of one pixel.

>
> Type the subtitle into the picture using the color white. Use a text-box f
or
> best control. Drag it where you want it. Under Layer Blending Options, tak
e
> Outer Glow and give it a radius of one pixel.

Hi JJS,

Nice. We tried this at home and twiddled and tweaked a bit with the
Outer Glow control panel and came up with the following add-on to your
advice (HYDM):
to get that slight darkish/greyish edge aroud the letter that you also
see on TV when the letters run into a white/light background, we did
the following.

Do as JJS says: Make a text layer in white. Now copy the textlayer.
Apply outerglow to the first layer in the manner that you like,
choosing a white color in the color panel. (The color picker shows up
in that control panel). Then go the upper - second - layer, & do
basically the same tweaking and twiddling, but pick a black/mid grey
color in the color picker instead of a white one. Put opacity in this
outer glow control panel to max. 10%. The result is that you see a
thinnish grey line around the letter that does not show in the darker
parts of the image, but leave letters readable in the white bits.

We found that pixel size in the 'size'-slider may be increased to more
than 1 px if you use larger letters. We used 24px with good results.

The whole story is longer than this, but I don't think you need all
the detail. Play around a bit with this two-layer text set-up to find
something you like.

HTH and GoodLuck

>
> Type the subtitle into the picture using the color white. Use a text-box f
or
> best control. Drag it where you want it. Under Layer Blending Options, tak
e
> Outer Glow and give it a radius of one pixel.

Hi JJS,

Nice. We tried this at home and twiddled and tweaked a bit with the
Outer Glow control panel and came up with the following add-on to your
advice (HYDM):
to get that slight darkish/greyish edge aroud the letter that you also
see on TV when the letters run into a white/light background, we did
the following.

Do as JJS says: Make a text layer in white. Now copy the textlayer.
Apply outerglow to the first layer in the manner that you like,
choosing a white color in the color panel. (The color picker shows up
in that control panel). Then go the upper - second - layer, & do
basically the same tweaking and twiddling, but pick a black/mid grey
color in the color picker instead of a white one. Put opacity in this
outer glow control panel to max. 10%. The result is that you see a
thinnish grey line around the letter that does not show in the darker
parts of the image, but leave letters readable in the white bits.

We found that pixel size in the 'size'-slider may be increased to more
than 1 px if you use larger letters. We used 24px with good results.

The whole story is longer than this, but I don't think you need all
the detail. Play around a bit with this two-layer text set-up to find
something you like.

HTH and GoodLuck

"CS" <centura_sibiu@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:38922408.0410040743.5692ddaa@posting.google.com...
> Hi. I am doing a presentation which consists of images each with a 2-3
> rows comment. How can I add text to an image in photoshop so that it
> looks like an subtitle? Essentially I want to add black (and somewhat
> blurred) 1-pixel edges to white text. How can I do that?

Type the subtitle into the picture using the color white. Use a text-box for
best control. Drag it where you want it. Under Layer Blending Options, take
Outer Glow and give it a radius of one pixel.