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Hand-colour each letter in a font?
Let’s say I have a whole bunch of text that I want to give a certain reflective look. I could do this in Photoshop easily enough, but there’s enough manual work to make the quantity of text daunting. It wouldn’t be too much work to colour all 26 letters, but then I’d have to manually position every single letter.
What is the quickest way you can think of to replace each letter in a block of text with its coloured equivalent?
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How are you doing this coloring?
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I could create an image for each letter in Photoshop. It’s kind of a mirrored bevel. I manually divide the letter into sections according to what angle it would face and do a gradient fill on each section, plus some airbrushed highlights.
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I’m not so sure that I want reflections that correspond with their positions. I like it having this artificial airbrushed look.
I guess I could do an orthographic render and then filter and touch up the resulting image a little.
But now it’s got me curious.
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I might compromise and go with the 3D solution.
But now it makes me curious, whether there’s a way…
1) Is there a way to split a block of text into a bunch of compositions, one for each letter? (But it’s important that there’s one composition for A, B, … Z, a, b, c, … z, so then I can change all A’s)
2) Maybe a way to grab a list of the characters using an expression, but also each character’s x and y position?
Of course, without an obvious solution, I guess it would be quicker to position each one by hand in Photoshop.
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