Thickening fonts in Photoshop CS
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To begin, open up a new blank document, approximately 8″ wide, 2″ high and 600dpi. If you want a larger title, you can make your initial document bigger, but it doesn’t matter in the very end as you can use WB or Robomaster to resize. Type your title or phrase in the font of your choice, colour black. I am going to use English Vivace as my example. I typed in my title at 100pt which makes it about 1″ high at this time.
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On the layers palette, right click on the box with the T in it and “select layer transparency”. You will now have the marching ants around your title. Right click on your type layer in the layers palette and select RASTERIZE LAYER.
Under Selection in the menu, go to Modify and choose Expand. You will have to choose a number by eye, as it will depend on the font you use, but to thicken the letters and make the connection places stronger, a number around 3-10 should probably do it.
Do not delete your selection. Make sure that your foreground colour is black and press ALT & BACKSPACE. This will fill in the selection with black and make your letters larger and thicker.
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