9 Replies to Creative Text Effects:

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   Lois

   May 19, 2010 at 11:54 am

   I loved this text effect tutorial. If used it would make a lovely Christmas letter heading. Wendy’ composes a very understandable tut. Thanks Wendy!

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   WENDY

   June 30, 2010 at 7:39 am

   I’m a 2 year newbie to Photoshop Elements… I try every so often to learn, get frustrated, and quit. Here I am again, this time a new subscriber and I hope this pushes me towards learning PE finally!

   OK, I get to Step 4, no problem… then I get the error message: “could not stroke the layer because there is nothing to stroke”/

   This is the story of my PE life, Error messages.

   Thanks for any help you can give me! Wendy

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     Rick

     June 30, 2010 at 9:35 am

     Hi Wendy,

     After you’ve entered your text, click Enter. Then create the new layer.

     You then need to put your cursor over the thumbnail icon for the text layer (in the Layers palette). If you hold down the Control key (Command on the Mac) and click once on the thumbnail, you will create a selection of the text on that layer. You should see ‘marching ants’ around the text you entered.

     Then, when you select the Stroke Selection command, it will work because you have that selection made.

     Hope this helps,
     Rick

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   Marla

   July 24, 2010 at 1:25 pm

   hi
   you’ve changed your site??? I have photoshop elements 8 and am a subscribter to techniques. how do i create circular or other paths for text???

   i get “no results” when I search

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   nancy

   October 26, 2011 at 9:13 am

   Love this tutorial,very informative and easy to follow,thanks Wendy

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   Barbara

   November 24, 2011 at 10:55 am

   Bardzo ciekawe i dobrze wytlumaczone dziekuje ja dopiero ucze sie wszystkiego Pozdrawiam Barbara

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   Barbara

   November 27, 2011 at 11:03 pm

   to jest fajne ale ja potrzebuje video zeby zobaczyc gdzie wchodzic
   byloby fajnie jak byscie to zrobili dziekuje Basia

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   Ramona G

   January 26, 2012 at 12:39 pm

   I have a problem with number 11, I do-Filter>Stylize, Wind, but than it states “and choose method: blast, direction, from the right, then click on OK—Where is this “method?—what comes up is “Could not complete the wind command because no pixels are selected” I really need help. thank you.

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     Rick

     January 26, 2012 at 1:24 pm

     Hi Ramona,

     If you get that ‘no pixels selected’ message, it means that the selection (from Step 10) somehow got lost, or you didn’t do the ‘Stroke’ command from Step 6.

     If you did stroke the text (creating that white outline), make sure the Blast layer is selected in the Layers palette, then move your mouse over the original Text layer (in the Layers palette) and hold down the Control key (or Command, if you’re on a Mac), and click once in the Text layer’s thumbnail icon. That should make a selection that will let you use the Wind filter.

     Hope this helps.

     Rick

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