GCU Forum - Fonts for your cards

Ruth_135411 GCU Newbies artist Posts: 47	Fonts for your cards - front Jul 18^th, 2009, 7:02pm The program I have to manipulate my cards has a very poor font selection. The size does not go high enough to make a great looking font. What are you using? Thanks
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James_137906 GCU Newbies artist Posts: 21	Re: Fonts for your cards - front Reply #1 - Jul 18^th, 2009, 7:09pm Hello, Not sure if this will help,but I just use the fonts installed on my computer.Must be at least a hundred or more. You can always do a google search for free fonts.I'm sure you'll find hundreds of them to download. Hope this helps you. Regards, James
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Ruth_135411 GCU Newbies artist Posts: 47	Re: Fonts for your cards - front Reply #2 - Jul 18^th, 2009, 7:23pm Thanks for replying James.. I have fonts but I can't get them to appear big enough on the front of my card.. so I thought I must need a different program.
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Donna_137698 Gold Member artist Posts: 1064	Re: Fonts for your cards - front Reply #3 - Jul 18^th, 2009, 7:25pm Hi Ruth I use Photoshop Elements that came with my digital camera. I can manually manipulate the size of the font that I add and you can distort, arch the text, or do a number of things to the text. And yes, I do recommend checking the internet for free fonts - I was able to get some additional ones.
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Norma_133903 Senior Member artist Posts: 485	Re: Fonts for your cards - front Reply #4 - Jul 18^th, 2009, 10:38pm What program are you using Ruth? I know the Adobe programs and Gimp allow font resizing. I use Photoshop cs4, but mainly because I am a photographer and that is my main program.
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Reply #5 - Jul 19^th, 2009, 5:55am

I use Elements and I have found that the bigger the image, the smaller the font looks. If you are creating your card at larger than five by seven or seven by five the font apears to be tiny. I add my lettering only after creating the card in the finished size. I may manipulate the image and add the decoration at a bigger size, but I always use the finished size to add my lettering.

Hope that helps.

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Ruth_135411 GCU Newbies artist Posts: 47	Re: Fonts for your cards - front Reply #6 - Jul 19^th, 2009, 8:13am Sandra.. you are a gem! I was putting text on when it was large...putting it on and then enlarging it was the answer.. Silly me .. t hanks
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Ruth_137083

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Reply #7 - Jul 26^th, 2009, 8:02am

Hi Ruth,

I use the adobe CS4 package with Illustrator & Photoshop. I find that once I create the image in illustrator which allows me to make fonts almost any size and convert it to .jpg . I can open the .jpg and change the image and canvas size to suite my needs. This can convert a small or large file into the right size or trim off ruff edges.

Ruth (Yes another one.)

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Elizabeth_137795 Gold Member artist Posts: 724	Re: Fonts for your cards - front Reply #8 - Jul 26^th, 2009, 9:52am I also use PhotoShop Elements and put the text on last and then resize as needed. You are right, the fonts installed on the computer aren't great, so finding additional fonts is a great idea. I tend to use the same fonts, which look redundant. cheers, elizabeth
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