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This simple Photoshop tutorial will help you add a little pop to your text There are very few tutorials that I come across which I find might actually be useful. Don’t get me wrong, you can learn a lot going through a tutorial even when the end result isn’t very useful in your day-to-day work. This I found at DesignM.ag is one of the few exceptions. In going through the tutorial, I immediately thought of several uses (such as divider pages in long documents. I also loved the flexibility it offers you — you don’t have to follow the tutorial to the letter to get great results. In the past you had to create a separate text container for your headline when you wanted to span it across a multi-column text box in InDesign. This presented problems with accurate spacing, and was a general pain in the behind.
Thankfully, makes the process simple. Headlines look pretty horrible in multi-column text by default As you can see in the image above, a headline that stays in the multi-column format looks pretty horrible.
Fire Photoshop Action. Create a fire effect the easy way! Make sure to watch the video tutorial to get the most out of the action. The action has been tested and working on Photoshop CS4,CS5,CS6,CC+. The action will ONLY WORK IN THE ENGLISH VERSION OF PHOTOSHOP.
Most people want to have the headline span across both columns. It’s simple to do, and you don’t need to create a separate text box to do it. First, select the text you want to span columns, then click the fly-out menu icon in the Paragraphs panel and choose Span Columns to activate the Span Columns dialog box you see below.
InDesign's Span Columns dialog box offers you plenty of customization Simply choose Span Columns from the drop-down menu, choose the number of columns you want the headline to span, and optionally choose how much space before and/or after the spanned text you want. InDesign's Span Columns results make it easy to work with your text After you hit OK, your text will span the columns (as seen above), and will easily reflow with any text changes you make to the body text before or after the spanned text. One of the cool new features found in Adobe InDesign CS5 is the ability to balance the amount of text appearing in multiple columns. Unbalanced columns of InDesign text Take the image above for example. Rather than inserting hard returns, using the Enter key to force text to the next column, or adjusting the size of the text container itself, you can simply use the Balance Columns feature. To do so, select the text container to make it active, then go to ObjectText Frame Options (or hit Command + B).
In the dialog box that appears, tick the Balance Columns checkbox. The results are a balanced columns of text, regardless of the text container size as seen in the image below. The same text with InDesign's Balance Columns feature applied The beauty of this feature is that you can add more text later and the text columns will always adjust to stay balanced, as opposed to having to go back manually and remove hard returns or re-adjust the size of the text container. A frequent question to Adobe InDesign users looking to center text at the top of a circular path is “for the love of God, why does InDesign move the text to the bottom of the circle (upside down) the second I center the text?” While every designer on the planet would think that clicking at the top center of the circle with your text tool, typing your text and centering it would result in the text being centered at the point you first clicked; that’s not the way software engineers think. To make sense of why your text gets centered at the bottom of the circle, you must first think of the circle as a straight line – with the top of the circle being the start of the line. So it stands to reason that the middle of the line is the bottom of the circle.
See the graphic below if you’re still not getting it. So the simple solution is that if you want to center your text at the top of the circle, you must click the text tool at the bottom of the circle first – which makes the bottom of the circle the start of the line – which makes the top of the circle the center if that makes no sense to you, then you can forget any chance of a career as a software engineer. You’ve probably done this many times before if you use keyboard shortcuts. You’re editing text and want to switch to the Direct Selection tool by hitting V (the shortcut to switch to the Direct Selection tool), or maybe M (to switch to the Rectange Shape tool) – but wait, you’re in a live text box, so instead of switching tools you end up typing the letter V or M. INCREDIBLY ANNOYING!
Thankfully, if you hold the Command key down and click the text box, it deactivates text edit mode so you can safely switch tools with your keyboard. Yesterday, you resized an Illustrator text frame and the text reflowed, staying the same size. Today, you enlarged an Illustrator text frame and the text grew right along with it. How do you force Illustrator to act the way you want it to? Mordy Golding, Illustrator guru and author of several books on Illustrator, often gets questions about scaling text in Illustrator CS, CS2, and CS3. For example, someone scales his text frame only to find that the text within the frame becomes scaled as well.
He wants to simply resize the frame, allowing the text within to reflow without changing size. Sometimes it works as he wants it to, while other times, it doesn’t — which leads to frustration and acts of computer violence. Why this seemingly inconsistent behavior?
Mordy covers the differences between Illustrator’s two text options: Point Type and Area Type, as well as how to properly scale text in Illustrator at CreativePro. In Adobe InDesign CS3, stroking text meant a stroke was added to the outside of the text, with only the miter join method your only option. This meant the stroke was squared off on corners with no way to adjust it while keeping text editable. With InDesign CS4, Adobe has added the ability to not only choose an outer or inner stroke, but also the option of using rounded or beveled miters as well as squared. Selecting text gives you the options in the Strokes panel.
So what does the final result look like? A 5pt outer aligned stroke is applied to the text, with a square miter join.
This was your only option with InDesign CS3: A 5pt inner aligned stroke is applied to the text, with a square miter join: A 5pt outer aligned stroke is applied to the text with a rounded miter join: Notice the rounded corners around the text in the image above. You could accomplish this with InDesign CS3, but it requires you to convert the text to outlines. With CS4, you can keep your text editable.
I thought I came across an unnoticed feature with CS4, but I see that InDesignSecrets also. It’s little features like this that make InDesign CS4 worth the upgrade.
Okay I'm not a Photoshop expert, but this is nearer to your original image. It cannot be how the original was made because there is some colour change on the canoeist in the original that looks like an invert or solarization. All I did different was to start by using Hue & Saturation to Colorize the image red and increase the saturation. I made a clipping make of the canoeist and reeds to show the original image. I know someone with better skills / more time could make this part look better but it does show the basic technique for turning water in to fire. The choice of image will help give a better fire / lava look, not so sure this images looks like fire but the colours are near and it is done from the river browns. Well I have tried to find a filter for photoshop that could make this effect but I have had no luck.
All I can do is 'jack around' with the Image Adjustments until I got near to the right effect. No; I guess it isn't really fire as in flames, but it does look like oil that is on fire, in the water drop photo, or lava maybe, the splash in the first photo makes it look like an explosion at least. I tried another photo to try out some filters and I think it looks better if you don't mask the canoeist, that way we get the feeling of heat and light around them. Definitely choosing the right water splash will improve the effect, not so many big round droplets looks.