Creating and changing images in graphic editors, sometimes I want to add to them not just a signature on social networks, but a beautiful inscription on top of the picture. The number of fonts pre-installed in Photoshop is striking in variety, but even among them it may not be suitable.
What to do in such cases? How to add a font to Photoshop CS6 or even create something original? And why do you need to look for other fonts?
Fonts in Photoshop
Graphic designers will confirm that the original and interesting style of the text often gives inspiration to create business cards, banners and covers. The larger the selection of fonts, the more unique the finished image will be.
But for starters, it’s worthwhile to learn more about what lies behind the word “font”. In modern terminology, the named word (from German schrift, schreiben - "write") means a full-fledged graphic drawing, including letters and additional characters, made in the same style.
The main characteristics of any style of text are:
- baseline
- skittle;
- serifs;
- saturation;
- width etc.
Each of these characteristics helps create a new, unique, written design.
Where to download fonts for "Photoshop"?
After going through the collection built into the named program and not finding the text that suits the style, users are wondering how to install fonts in Photoshop CS6 and where to find them?
Like almost all the useful information about the graphics editor, add-ons for Photoshop are easy to find on the World Wide Web. Over the many years since the release of the first version of the editor, thousands of new components for the program have been created. The Internet is full of sites that will help you understand the basics of editing and design.
Such resources, as a rule, also provide a wide selection of files for downloading: brushes, backgrounds, vector drawings and fonts. Submitted files can be grouped by topics:
- Vintage
- Oriental
- Gothic
- comic
- holiday;
- decorative "retro";
- Old Slavic and others.
However, before uploading fonts to Photoshop CS6, you need to make sure that the language you want is supported by the user. For example, many text designs were developed by foreign authors and support only the Latin alphabet, but not the Cyrillic alphabet.
How to install fonts in Photoshop CS6 manually
So, the file was successfully found and downloaded to the hard drive. It remains to learn how to install fonts in Photoshop CS6. There are two installation methods:
- manually;
- using third-party programs.
Consider the first option. Two types of texts are available for Windows operating systems - TrueType and PostScript Type.1. Manual installation does not take much time. To do this, you must:
- Unzip the file.
- Go the way “Start” - “Control Panel” - “Fonts”. Windows 10 supports automatic search for entered characters in the Start menu, so you can just click the Win button and start typing Fonts.
- In the window that appears, select the menu “File” - “Install Font”.
- The Add Fonts dialog box prompts you to select a path to the file.
- Select the desired font and click OK.
There is another way to manually install fonts in Photoshop CS6. Simply transfer the unzipped file to the Fonts system folder. The operating system will automatically install a new add-on that appears in the graphics editor.
Adobe Type Manager
When it’s clear how to add a font to Photoshop CS6, it’s much easier to work. But it’s not a secret to anyone that excessive installation of components negatively affects both the graphical editor itself and the operation of the operating system.
But files downloaded from the Internet often have unreadable names, and identifying the right one among hundreds can be difficult. It is for such cases that the Adobe Type Manager Deluxe (ATM) program was developed. It runs on Windows and Mac operating systems.
The main purpose of the program is font management. The functionality of the application allows you to scale fonts on the screen and during printing. But most importantly, with the help of the program you can easily remove components that are no longer needed.
Change font
In cases where simply adding a new style of text to Photoshop is not enough, the graphic editor provides users with the opportunity to bring something of their own to the stylistic picture. But how to change the font in Photoshop CS6?
Change the size and slope of the letters will help "Toolbar". In the “Layers” tab, select the one on which the text is located. Then, in the lower right corner of the window of the graphical editor, click on the fx icon and select “Overlay Options”.
Thus, you can do the following:
- change embossing;
- circuit;
- texture
- Stroke
- add inner shadow and inner glow;
- gloss;
- apply color;
- apply a gradient;
- apply a pattern;
- add an external glow and shadow.
It is worth noting that before changing the text, you must determine its size. After applying the overlay, the text will be rasterized and turn into a picture.
The solution to the main problems
Almost all users know how to increase the font in Photoshop CS6. But scaling text is not the main problem when working with fonts. Therefore, in the end, we will give answers to the most common questions:
- Where to find a new font? It is located in the same place as the main collection. Just click on the “Fonts” icon in the program and carefully read the list.
- What to do if instead of letters there are strange characters? This problem is quite common, but there is no solution for it. If the component does not support the Cyrillic alphabet, then writing anything in Russian will not work.
- What if the text is not displayed in the selected area? Most often in such cases, the settings have too much scaling. It is enough to select the entire contents of the area (Ctrl + A) and reduce the size.