Similar Fonts Flash

Supplies needed FONTS

A copy of PhotoImpact  30 day Free Trail

This tut should work in most copies of PhotoImpact. I used PhotoImpact 12 for this Tutorial.

After you have download the fonts, open them and minimize to your desktop before you open your PhotoImpact Programme.

The fonts will appear in your font list when you open PI.

You can install them in your Windows Font folder if you like but I would warn against doing that. The reason is because the more fonts you install in your Windows folder the slower your programmes will open.

OK lets get started!!

Open a New Image with a transparent checked. Select your text tool and click on your new image. At this point your tool settings palette will appear.

Click on the Kerning box and also place the number 4 in the Character Spacing list. You will have to click on your new image again. Don't worry, your Kerning settings will show up again.

INFO: I have made this tut with the Kerning setting on the Text Tool Palette. The reason for that, is to put more space between the the letters. This makes them look less pushed together. See examples below.

Up to you really if you use kerning or not

Examples

No Kerning

With Kerning

Also make sure that you have the Anti-aliasing box checked and Smooth in the drop down list. (you may want to play with the list)

 Choose 3D Round from the drop down list.

Give it a Width: 6 and a Depth: 19

Type your Name and move to the position you would like it on your image.  I used a size of 82 for my font, however it is up to you. Experiment and see were it goes.

Goto the font drop down list and select the font Gravitate BRK.

Click on the MORE Button in your Tool Settings - Text and you will get a Material box jump out at you.

Click on light and give it 2 in the drop down box. Ambient should be at 30.

Click on the first light if it is not already highlighted and move the first light nearer the bottom. Give it a

Shininess of: 10

Strength of:    64

The second light is OK with the default settings.

Click OK.

Duplicate your first name layer 14 times, this will make it  15 name layers all together.

Because you have duplicated the first layer 14 times, they will all have obj-1 as their name.

What I want you to do is name each layer so that we can match them to the frames in GA

Click on the  obj-1 in the top layer  this will highlight (see below) and you will then be able to type the name you would like in that layer. In the top one type 3D Pipe .

Click on obj-1 in the next  layer down and type the name Gravitate Segments.

Click on obj-1 in the next  layer down and name it Gravitate BRK Solid

Click on obj-1 in the next  layer down and name it 1.

Click on obj-1 in the next  layer down and name it 2.

etc and so on down the layers.

If you have duplicated your layers 14 times, then your last layer will be 12

Change the top layer to 3D Pipe

 Width: 2 Depth: 25

Click on the colour box and give a light colour of #FEE5FB or a lighter colour of the colour that you have used.

Click on the layer just underneath the 3D Pipe layer and Select Gravitate Segments BRK in your font drop down list.

This will give you the hole slits to see the colour through.

Leave the number 1 layer at the original colour. Work your way down the remaining 11 layers changing the colour of the name to bright shades of one colour for 3-4 layers working from dark to light and 3-4 layers light to dark on the next colour. What colours you use is entirely up to you.

You can use a colour set that matches the main colour you are using or you can use gradients or texture, they all work.

I have used Gradients for the flash in the No Kerning example and the With Kerning example I used Magic Textures.

This may take a bit of trial and error depending on the colours that you choose.

When you are satisfied with the way it looks, Save as a UFO file. Click on the link below to go to the tutorial for animating your font flash. :-)

Hope you are having fun thus far!!!

A Different font set

vtks Broadband and vtks alcalina

You have to fiddle with these 2 a bit but I think it is worth the effort.

Can't remember the name of this font set. Done in PSP9

ANIMATING THE FONT FLASH

Please feel free to  print this tutorial out for your own personal use, but do not copy it in any way  to put on-line, pass out, or re-write and claim as your own.

Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this, is not intentional and is purely coincidental.

This tutorial was written on the 3rd September 2008 and is therefore

© to Edna Munn

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Edna Munn

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