Re: Applying text to object that is at an angle

On 15/08/2004, at 7:17 AM, Louis M Hall wrote:
>  I want to know how to put new text on the side of that truck.  For
> example: I want to place this text on the side of the truck, "ACE 
> MOVING VAN COMPANY".  At an angle
> the first letter "A" should be a bit larger than the last letter "Y". 
> The entire phrase will be at
> an angle, slant, or whatever.  If the lettering is raised, one side of 
> each letter, say the left
> side might have to have a drop shadow. Is that the way that would be 
> handled?

I don't know about PSP Louis, but you could certainly do it with 
Photoshop Elements (way cheaper than a full blown Photoshop and just as 
good for most things).
Have your text on a separate layer with a transparent background, use 
the transform tools, skew, perspective etc to get the angle/slant you 
want. Duplicate the layer, adjust the colour and blur to get the type 
of shadow (hard or soft) that you want.
Keep the master as a photoshop layered file in case you want to change 
it again, merge the layers and save for the web as a jpg.

Cheers,
KathyW.

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