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How to "outline" a shape with transparency, over a background?


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Hi, I've attached two images--the one titled "edge logo" is the original. The one titled "discovery" is my attempt at separating the original into two layers. What I'm trying to do ultimately is erase a certain thickness of line around the letters so as to separate the words from the background design visually upon doing a single-color print of this image. There's gotta be an easy way to do this but I don't know. Is there I hope it's clear what I'm trying to do. Thanks for your help.

Tomas
 

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That's exactly what I'm going for! I figured out how to select all text in layer 1, and modify>expand, but don't know how to make layer 0 active to fill.
 
Another way to do this would be to select the black text and then run a white stroke around it. Seems to me that this would be simpler than expand etc but whatever works is fine.
 
bgoodman4 said:
Another way to do this would be to select the black text and then run a white stroke around it. Seems to me that this would be simpler than expand etc but whatever works is fine.
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Very true. Lot's of ways to do it.

But it seems he may need to have the text and design in 2 separate layers - for printing. And may not be a good idea to have the white pixels on the text layer. Most especially for future use - the entire logo on a colored background.
 
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dv8_fx said:
Very true. Lot's of ways to do it.

But it seems he may need to have the text and design in 2 separate layers - for printing. And may not be a good idea to have the white pixels on the text layer. Most especially for future use - the entire logo on a colored background.
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Thats a good point,,,,,,simple way around it would be to select the text, change layers (perhaps even to a new intermediate layer), and then run the stroke. Like you said,,,,,,many ways to achieve the same end result, and thats one of the many things I like about PS.
 
If you have a text however that you would like to see thicker or thinner, the method dv8 describes can work for that. Ctl/cmd click the text and modify the selection, then mask or fill the expanded selection to make thicker text. If text is not rasterized, it will need to be on a separate layer for expanding.
 
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