Example of Text manipulation

I used an external source called ‘Dafont.com’ for my feature subtext article’s font.

I especially liked their “indie” style fonts because I felt that they had the best combination of both the traditional, handwritten style font, along with a strong, tall and sturdy design font that better matched with my overall theme of making my magazine seem more elite and professional looking.

I copied a print screen and once in Photoshop, I created a new later, and pasted it into my magazine. I wanted the whole white space behind it so that I could use it later on for the background.

I then took the Rectangular Marquee tool and drew a size that I was comfortable with around the text. I made sure to leave enough room so that the text wouldn’t be too close to the edge and chip away when I changed the colour of it later.

I then pushed together control, shift, and ‘i’ so that it flipped the selected parts of that layer to everything but that box and deleted it.

I was then left with just the white box and black writing, just how I liked it.

For the white parts of my featured subtext, removed the black writing in the middle to only be left with the white box and outline.

To do this, I selected all the bold, black text with the magic wand tool. To make sure everything could be collected at the same time, I held down shift as I did it.

I then simply deleted all that I had selected. Another thing I really liked about the font is that the narrower parts of the words didn’t get removed, so you would still be able to make out the words even with most of it missing.

I still couldn’t say that the text was popping out to me, in curtain places it seemed as though it almost blended into the background. So I had to make it more eye catching.

I simply right-clicked on the layer and went into blending options.

I put a stroke on both the inside and outside of the box since I deleted the text in-between.

I set it in a thin black outline with a width of 2 pixels so that the outline didn’t overpower the original text, but instead gave it more depth and helped in making it more eye catching and intriguing for the readers.

This is then my finished result.

I really like the way in which the strong black and white contrasts from the very heavy colours that my artist is covered in, and therefore makes it easier on the eyes for my readers.

Black boxes around white text also seem to be an iconic theme in indie genres in many different fields, so adding that to my own indie magazine definitely had to be a part of it also.