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weekell75
Joined: 28 Oct 2015
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 Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 9:33 am Post subject: Text with coloured background? |
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Hi,
I am badly in need of help! I need to do a repeating sentence (from top to bottom of an A3 page), with each sentence with a different coloured back ground. I need to fit about 30 sentences onto the page.
How do I do this?
Thanks,
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d^_^b
Joined: 14 Jan 2015
Posts: 194
PS Version: CC 2014
OS: Win 8 64-bit Home / Win 7 64-bit Work
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What is the sentence you'd want to repeat over and over again?
Do you have a font in mind?
Do you have Photoshop?
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weekell75
Joined: 28 Oct 2015
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 3:22 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
Thanks for reply!
It's actually ten sentences! Here's one example:
* ....talk to your friends, parents, brothers and sisters about how you're feeling....
I don't mind which font, probably Times New Roman.
Yes I have Photoshop but only know the basics.....
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d^_^b
Joined: 14 Jan 2015
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PS Version: CC 2014
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01. Create a new A3 document (29.7cm x 42 cm).
02. Click View > New Guide Layout
03. Tick Rows, input the desired number of rows and click OK.
04. Click View > Snap - this way Photoshop will veer towards the guides, which makes selection much much easier.
05. Click the Rectangular Marquee tool and drag out a rectangle around the first row.
06. Click the Paint Bucket tool  . Click the Foreground colour picker and select a colour of your choice - I suggest using the vertical bar, start from a colour of your choice and slide the bar up or down a small amount for each row colour change, to get a nice gradual effect, or just go crazy - it's up to you.
Fill the selected area by clicking into the dotted selection box.
07. Repeat steps 5 to 8, for the remaining rows - press M to quickly switch to the Marquee tool and press G to quickly switch to the paint bucket tool.
08. Press T to switch to the type tool and drag a box on the first row. Adjust the box size by dragging the square handles if required. Click into the text box input words and press Enter to complete. Choose the font, font size, colour etc.
09. You can either press T to switch to the Type tool and drag a box for each row, but it would probably be quicker to use the shortcut CTRL J to duplicate the text layer, press V on your keyboard to switch to the Move tool and use the cursor keys to move the text layer down, then hit T to switch to the Type tool to edit the sentence.
10. Repeat steps 08 and 09, as many times as required.
11. Click View > Extras to hide the guides.
The Photoshop file can be downloaded from here;
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24025311/Photoshop/Rows/File.psd
I've also added a 10 line background...
Meow.
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weekell75
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Wow Meow,
This is amazing, thank you!
I seriously owe you one!
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weekell75
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Welcome, weekell75!
