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In some sigs I see really small fonts with a black border around them perfectly is that or a font or somehting they did when making the graphic. Please point me in either direction on where to find or how to do it THANKS!

There is porbably an easier or quicker way of doing this, but, this is what I have always done...


#Using Photoshop 6...

1: Make your image background etc etc, add your text.

2: Do not flatten the image yet, instead, CTRL + Left click on your text layer.

3: Flatten the image, making sure your text is still selected.

5: Select Edit > Stroke from the Photoshop menu at the top of the Photoshop interface.

6: In the pop-up box that appears make sure that the 'Location' is 'Outside' and select the width and color you want. For text < 14 pt, a 1 px width is all you should need.

Then click okay, and volia!

Hope this helps, if you got any problems jyst ask, I don't know if I have explained it very well

Hey man look I found a pixel font and tried your thing and here it is




Thanks Alot

I am so obssessed wiht making lil graphics

arghhh! turn aliasing on, please!

whats that?

hey matt .. in your sig pic howd you do the square texture thing and have it fade also .. that looks really kewl

i should say, rather, to turn anti-aliasing off. it makes text look smooth, but isn't good for pixel fonts.

for your other question, go here .

Matt: ahh, shameless self promotion

how do you turn it off?

What version of photoshop are you using?> if its 6, select the text, and at the text formatting bar at the top there is a drop down box for anti aliasing, select 'none'.

Yea I use 6 .. What exactly does it mean anti aliasing..

[ May 30, 2001 06:35 PM: Message edited by: Tech-Ni-Kal ]

not to say i told ya so, but...

*shakes his head* I feel Dumb