Monday, January 23, 2006
The magic of stroke. - white stroke
Stroke is basically a colored outline that you place around the text.
Layer Style > Stroke
Usually we use stroke when the words that we place in are either:
1. goes over the dialogue bubbles and the font is already really small.
2. text outside dialogue boxes
3. positioning the text where there are drawings.
Stroke makes the text looks more readable and makes it look neater.
e.g.
Without stroke text
Kinda hard to read right? with all those stuff behind the words.
This is where stroke comes in
Here are black text stroke in white.
As you can see, as you increase the size of the stroke, it makes the white outline thicker.
I'll now show you how it looks with stroke.
Stroke 1 White
Stroke 2 White
Stroke 3 White
The thickness of the stroke entirely depends on you, but personally I think Stroke 2 is just right for scanlations. Stroke 3 are used by others but its a bit too thick for my taste.
Layer Style > Stroke
Usually we use stroke when the words that we place in are either:
1. goes over the dialogue bubbles and the font is already really small.
2. text outside dialogue boxes
3. positioning the text where there are drawings.
Stroke makes the text looks more readable and makes it look neater.
e.g.
Without stroke text
Kinda hard to read right? with all those stuff behind the words.
This is where stroke comes in
Here are black text stroke in white.
As you can see, as you increase the size of the stroke, it makes the white outline thicker.
I'll now show you how it looks with stroke.
Stroke 1 White
Stroke 2 White
Stroke 3 White
The thickness of the stroke entirely depends on you, but personally I think Stroke 2 is just right for scanlations. Stroke 3 are used by others but its a bit too thick for my taste.
# posted by Kaila : 11:43 AM
