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How do you add a glow or fade type outline around text?
« on: October 10, 2012, 10:42:03 PM »
Do you give it an outline, then convert to an object and then do some sort of fountain fill?


Offline Denis Kolar

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Re: How do you add a glow or fade type outline around text?
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2012, 10:46:23 PM »
Outer glow in Illustrator.
It is under Effects/Stylize

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Re: How do you add a glow or fade type outline around text?
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2012, 10:52:30 PM »
Geez drop shadow in Corel. Sometimes the obvious is hard to see.

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Re: How do you add a glow or fade type outline around text?
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2012, 09:07:23 AM »
Let's not forget Layer Styles in Photoshop either...

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Re: How do you add a glow or fade type outline around text?
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2012, 10:13:30 PM »
Plenty of ways to skin a cat.
What software do you work in?

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Re: How do you add a glow or fade type outline around text?
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2012, 10:15:53 PM »
Corel x4

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Re: How do you add a glow or fade type outline around text?
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2012, 01:16:04 AM »
Dropshadow, ala Corel then, if you want to stay vector-ish.
Pretty simple once you figure the tool out.

I wouldn't trust it for output though.

I'd do it freehand with a raster program, then underlay my graphic with what I just made.
But, that's just me.
I use Corel for vectors, and as an 'art desk'.
It excels at that, much like Illy, if you like Adobe's rules.

Preset, or freehand, I'll always advise converting any..'special effects', to bitmaps with a clearly
defined color pallete, at output resolution, before figuring it's ready to print.

Cheers.