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rudypoochris
Joined: 12 Jun 2010
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 Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:55 am Post subject: Selecting Internal Edges |
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I have a black and white text which has been rasterized. I am trying to end up with just the outline of the front. It is roughly a 4000x1000px image. I want to remove the internal black and make it white leaving just 3-5 pixels of black outline so you know what the letters are minus the internals. How do I do this? Thank you immensely! Sorry if this is extremely basic. I think this is "feather" based.
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thehermit
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
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Location: Cheltenham, UK
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Hi and welcome to the forums rudypoochris. It seems that the easiest thing to do would be to identify the font and use that. Failing that, it would probably be a job for the Pen Tool, trace the outlines of the font and then stroke the resulting path.
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hawkeye
Joined: 14 May 2009
Posts: 2377
Location: Mesa, Az
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
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If the text is on it's own layer you'd only need to crtl-click the layer to select the text, then Select-Modify-Contract the selection X pixels and hit delete. |
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rudypoochris
Joined: 12 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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| hawkeye wrote: | | If the text is on it's own layer you'd only need to crtl-click the layer to select the text, then Select-Modify-Contract the selection X pixels and hit delete. |
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doctor tropico
Joined: 25 May 2010
Posts: 6
Location: Mariakerke, Ghent, Belgium
PS Version: CS4
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:54 am Post subject: |
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You can also apply a stroke via layer effects. (that is if it is on a separate layer)
Adjust settings: position to "inside", size to 3px, color to black.
Than you set the layer fill to 0.
When you do it this way you keep all the pixels of your text. Should you need it later on, without the stroke, you don't have to start filling the holes... |
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