Topic: Fed fonts and textures - question..

[FireSoul]

So.. what fonts are used for Fed textures..? What program is used for the curvature? Is there something I should know?

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[DarkMatrix]

i use photoshop myself as for fonts do a google seach u find loads of them

DM

[yeaterk]

i use microsofts picture it to crurve the text on my models, and a star trek font i downloaded off the web. Only bad thing to get get the red outline takes some work. i start in picture it make the  name etc in red, save it, then open photo shop and make the inside black. save again. if there is a better way i cant do it with the cersion i gave of photoshop 5.0.  hope this helps.  

[FireSoul]

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i use microsofts picture it to crurve the text on my models, and a star trek font i downloaded off the web. Only bad thing to get get the red outline takes some work. i start in picture it make the  name etc in red, save it, then open photo shop and make the inside black. save again. if there is a better way i cant do it with the cersion i gave of photoshop 5.0.  hope this helps.  

Is there a function within photoshop, which I don't have, which allows you to do such outline?
.. also.. does anyone have an idea what font is best for registries?

[sandman69247]

Not sure if it's in PS5 or not, but in PS7, make the red circle, then re-select the circle, go to select>modify>contract enter the pixel width...the selection marquee now contracts that many pixels, then hit cntrl-x to cut the center out.

For the text, depending what you use PS or PSP, either create the text, then click the curve text button (in PS) or, in PSP, create a vector layer, then open the shapes box, select ellipse, draw a circle....then click the text button, position cursor over the circle you made, the cursor should change..click...the text dialogue box opens...select font and size, write your text (it should appear on the outside of circle)...can't remember how to get on the inside anymore. I did have a tutorial Pataflafla made on this subject...let me see if I still have it and I'll send it to ya. It's for PSP by the way.

Hope this helps someone.  

[red_green]

One way to get the red outline on Fonts already done that dont have them, is using the glow plugin. I use PSP but PS must have 1 as its hundreds of dollars more. You just select each letter then pick your shade of red for the glow and choose fine mediuim or diffuse and width.  As far as curving them, I never figured it out in PSP so I do it by manually rotating each letter individually  

[Praxis]

You can also warp the text to a semicircle or arc shape.

[yeaterk]

I use  the font starfleet bdex bt for my fonts, i got it off some web page i went to once. It should be easy to find it.