Photoshop - text effect? How?
 

How do I achieve this text effect?

http://www.smeraglinolo.com/hosted/sigs/turbosig2.jpg

If I were to take a guess I would say they had the letters drawn/typed out and just used the picture of the car as a background fill.

here's my guess...

start with a blank canvas with a white background
type the text out that you want to use in black
layer -> flatten image
select the text using magic wand or your preferred method
edit -> stroke (using thickness and color you want the outline to be) *this is the secret sauce ingredient!*
with text still selected, delete to leave transparent inside of the stroked outline you just drew
pull image in as a layer below the outline you created
fill the outside with whatever color you like

let me know if that works, it should.

muahaha. just using a photo on my work computer and the text available to me. the heavier the font the better for this type of thing, for obvious reasons.

http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k...g?t=1220473751

how do you stroke? (lol)

it wont let me select it "stroke"

you cant 'stroke' text, it has to be an 'image' or whatever its referred to. hence the 'flatten image' step before you get your stroke on.
you also must have something selected to stroke using one of the selection tools (like magic wand)

Wow, Bryan.

hahah

haah. figured it out, forgot to flatten.

Nice i figured it out too another way as well

what font is that

mine is called pricedown. its pretty much grand theft auto stlye.

are you doing this on a mac or PC?

its called pete had tst's font on his computer and how he's selling us out!

Is that what we used, I wasn't sure if it was exactly the same actually.

Rather than flatten the image you can create the type layer, then control + click it in the layer window to select the type.

Go to select->modify->contract by however many pixels, ~25 is probably good

with this selection you can create a mask for the image you want to place inside of it or just copy the image and choose paste into

I figured out a way doing a mask it works way easier

http://blowneuroz.com/mygallery/Sigs/traction.jpg

all this 'way easier' talk when it took me about 30 seconds to do once i figured it out... but anyone who uses ps knows that there are about 100 ways to do everything.

qft and ftw

Bryan what program did you use. My photoshop has expired so I was wondering if there was any better programs?

photoshop :)