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Photoshop : Coloured Contours to Enhance Your Titles
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Daniel Garance

Creating the Outline

The hardest part is over once your text is in place. Creating the outline around it only takes a few mouse clicks:

  1. Click on the Background in the Layers palette, then on the Create a new layer button.

    2. A new layer appears, just above the background layer.

  2. Select a foreground colour. This is going to be the colour of the outer outline.

  3. Select Edit > Stroke.

    4. The Stroke dialog box opens up.



    Figure 5: The Stroke dialog box.

  4. Select the option Inside and enter a value of your choice in the Width field. Validate the outline with the OK button.

    5. It is best to choose a width that is greater than 1, otherwise your outline will be too fine.



    Figure 6: An unfilled outline.

Two colours for an outline? To obtain an outline in two colours, proceed as follows after you have created the layer:

  1. Select a foreground colour.

  2. Press the Alt + Del (Ctrl + Backspace on the Macintosh) to fill the selection.



Figure 7: A filled outline.



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