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Simple question:
but I cannot find the answer anywhere...and I have been using photoshop for awhile (eeek)

I want a line of black text to have a white background,
not around the letters, but around the whole line like you would in html

any help is Super Appreciated,
Thanks,
John
 
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anyone?
I am trying to upload a sample photo so you can see hat I mean... It's just like when you select text, you still see the text but the Background is highlighted with a color (often grey) ...I want white font on a black background for each line of text
or Black fort and white bg

thanks
J
 
anyone?
I am trying to upload a sample photo so you can see hat I mean... It's just like when you select text, you still see the text but the Background is highlighted with a color (often grey) ...I want white font on a black background for each line of text
or Black fort and white bg

thanks
J

It would be good if you could add a pic to this question, you may have to use something like photobuket or such site's to add an image.

But please do so as I am finding it very hard to understand what you are trying to do, sorry about that.
 
Sorry But I don't know how to do what you are asking.
 
It's Funny.
It's seems like it would be so simple.
I have been using Photoshop for awhile and yet I am at a loss...
J
 
This is a shot in the dark...

If you are trying to make white copy on a black background try this:
Create a new layer.
•Select all
•Go to your color picker
•Choose black
•Fill with black
•Choose tour Type tool
•Go to your color picker
•Choose white
•Change to the font you want
•Begin to type what you want
•This will create a new type layer
You can add effects, move the text, edit if not rasterized, change leading, alignment, etc.

If this is completely off base, sorry.

Another thought:
If you want bars of black behine the white type instead it being solid, try this:

Type out what you want, fix the type, font, leading, etc. in black. When the type if perfect determine how many lines you have of the copy.On a separate layer draw a rectangle exactly as long as the first line. Now duplicate that layer as many times are there are lines of copy. Take the first layer of the black rectangle and line it up perfectly with the first line of copy. Go to the last line of copy and take the last rectangle layer and line it up perfectly. If you want varients in length as to show the differnce in each line, transfrom each one. When doing so only change the width so it will match the line. Next go to the alignment/distribute tool. Click on all layers with a black rectangle. Now click on distribute space vertically. This will spread them evenly and hopefully where each line is. You may have to adjust.

Another way is to rasterize a duplicate type layer, keeping the original type layer. Be sure to change the type to white before rasterizing! Hide the original type layer. Then divide each line of the rasterized type. Make black rectangles to the desired size, each on its own layer. Then align each line of type to each rectangle. Add a folder to each duo layer of white type and a black rectangle. Select all layers in the layer palette and hit distribute vertically. Each line of type will be aligned and ditrbuted perfectly.
 
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Thanks.
But I want the background of each line to be black (against white text)
Not the entire Bg...
Like when you select text with your cursor it highlights the line itself...that kind of effect.

The way that you can change the color of the font, I want to change the Bg for each line...
Like So:
http://thereelshit.com/Images/cityscape_1a.jpg

This I did manually with the line tool ...It's a pain in the ass.
There must be a better way
I've never yet run into a photoshop limitation I couldn't find an answer to...

Thanks for the help

...more please
: )

J
 
Hope this might help a little.

Dulicate your text layer. Place copy layer under original text layer, select all text, change font color, change font to Webdings and type letter g as many times as needed, placing Enter where appropriate.

Change the widths of the last line's g's if need be :)
 
Glad to help. Alas, PS Find and Replace feature is far less then sufficient and doesn't have rich find and replace choices like regexp replacing characters. Hope they fix it sometime soon:). But still, nobody said you can't use external text editing progs with much richer functionality, using Paste and Copy, or scripting via VBA or JS:) to automate the task.
 
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santh, are you sure you're talking about Photoshop?

What is 'profile' and what is "top of your page"? And where are those 'customize profile' and advanced edit with certain ones "modules"?

Are you talking about some other program?
 

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