![]() ![]() With weather sealing and advanced image stabilization, you’ll open up your creative possibilities.ĪfterShoot – AfterShoot helps photographers cull their photos faster, leaving them more time to spend on creative tasks. Tamron – Need lightweight, compact mirrorless lenses? Tamron has you covered, with superior optics perfect for any situation. This means that this nice new shiny font is available to me on any application Installing makes the font available now but Export means I can install the font permanently on my system. There’s a choice here, Install or Export. For my font I later discovered that I should have spent a little longer on this step as my kerning was all over the place! I can also change the letter spacing by dragging the vertical lines around the letter. Fontself understands that the guide is the baseline and adjusts the font accordingly Before dragging over the lowercase letters I’ll straighten them and add a guide along the text baseline. Easily done, just click and drag them to the right position. Tweaking The FontĪ quick look at the font shows that the letters are well below the baseline and they need tweaking. Instantly the plugin recognises the paths and puts them into their corresponding box. The first time I performed this I couldn’t help but yelp with delight. Once all the grouping has been done I’ll again drag the paths to the plugin panel Then from the Object menu choose Group to group the two paths together There’s a couple of letters that are made from two paths, like here on the Y.Īll I need to do is select both of the paths that make the Y, by using the White Arrow tool and clicking on one path and the shift and clicking on the other. What you might find that you a dialogue box warning you that you have too many letters selected, in my case a total of 27!Ī quick look along the selection reveals where the problems lay. Once selected drag the letters to the Fontself panel on the relevant section, Uppercase, Lowercase or Numbers. Selecting the letters is as easy as making a marquee around them. ![]() Once installed there’s a helpful practice sheet, instructions and even a remote help button. The install is quick and straightforward. (Use the code fontself_PF20 to get 20% off!) At the time of writing its selling for $49. The Fontself plugin can be downloaded here. NB The Alphabet should be on one line, capturing on two is fine but you should move them now. ![]() In my case the alphabet needs rotating and resizing, I’ll do this from the Transform dialogue box In Illustrator drag the image from the Library onto the artboard. The image that’s saved to the Adobe Library is a vector graphic, so native to Adobe Illustrator. ![]() Using the app I can grab, refine and save the shape really quickly. This has become a lot easier with the introduction of Adobe Libraries and the Adobe Capture app. I’m going to create the font of my own handwriting, written with a Sharpie over a ruler OK, theres another reason I’ve not gone into font creation, I’m really not that skilled at drawing. Luckily for me this is now reality with the help of Adobe Shape, Adobe Illustrator and a new Illustrator plugin, FontSelf. The difficulty is getting what I want from paper to computer in a method and time frame that doesn’t have me wanting to scream. I love fonts (is fontaholic a thing?) and have always wanted to create my own. ![]()
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