[Art Doerge]

Jared.

Glad you got the problem solved and thanks so much for reporting back to let us know what solved it. That information might help us help others in the future!

Art

[Art Doerge]

Hi Jared,

Read the following thread that was posted on the Adobe forum last February. Would appreciate knowing if it turns out to be helpful.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/309991

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Will be looking forward to your success post Margaret! 🙂

[Art Doerge]

Okay first of all, like Richard said, you need to put your downloaded ornamental fonts on your computer along with all your other fonts (that part has nothing to do with Photoshop). I’m on a Mac so I’m not familiar with Vista, but I found this web page….

https://www.lytebyte.com/2007/07/03/how-to-install-new-fonts-in-windows-vista/

After the fonts are installed:
Okay, let’s start by just accessing one of your ornamental dings from within Photoshop and putting it on a new transparent layer. In Photoshop, open a new transparent document. Click on the “Type Tool” and in the options bar, where you choose your font, locate and choose one of your ornamental dings. Type any letter and you should see an ornamental ding in your document. You can resize as desired using the “Character” palette as Jayse did in his tutorial. From there on you should be able to follow the video tutorial and start taking the decorative font apart.

If you want to create and save a document full of dings like Jayse had, start by creating a new transparent document; you’ll add your dings to that document. If the document turns out to be too small, it’s easy to increase the canvas size later. Next, simply use the Type Tool to add your dings to that document. It might be good to separate each ding with a space or two. You could also add a colorful background on a separate bottom layer if desired. If you prefer, you could create multiple layers with one or several dings on each layer (that’s what it looked like Jayse had done).

Once you’ve created your ding storage document, you can copy any of the dings from it to a new document for future projects. To do that, click on the Type tool, then select one of your dings and copy it to the clipboard. Now paste it into a new document. Since you selected the ornamental ding in the type layer, with the Type Tool active, it will still be a vector and can be resized without losing any quality.

It’s past my bedtime now 🙂 I’ll check tomorrow to see if you have any questions or Richard will probably be around to help as well.

Good Luck! Sounds like what you’re trying to learn will be fun!

[Art Doerge]

Richard,

You’re right, that was a bad choice of words on my part. I meant to say that the OP could not use free transform to do what he wanted to do (“pinching of text at one end and larger at the other”). He would need either the “Perspective” or “Distort” functions and both are grayed out when working with a text layer. Thanks for the correction 🙂

I guess it’s not because the text is a vector either? I’ve noticed that those functions are available with vector images other than text. Must just be because it’s a font, right?

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Margaret,

I see your post is 11 hours old, did you get the problem figured out or do you still need help? I don’t have After Effects but will try to help if you still need it.

[Art Doerge]

Hi David,

Wow, that’s great; thanks for sharing that solution! We’ll be able to use that information to help others that might report the same problem. If I understand you correctly, you now have everything in the Panels & Documents section checked except “Open Documents as Tabs” and “Enable Floating Document Window Docking”. So the problem is caused by one of those two; it would be nice to know which one 🙂

David, would you please try to determine which of the two (Open Documents as Tabs or Enable Floating Document Window Docking) is actually causing the problem, and let us know? That would be very much appreciated and helpful to others that may be experiencing the same problem.

Thanks!

[Art Doerge]

Yes you can. While holding the Alt (option for Mac) key down, position the pointer over the line that separates the adjustment layer and the layer directly below it (the one you want it to effect). You’ll see something that looks like two dark circles (one overlapping the other). Click there, and you’ll see your adjustment layer move a little to the right and it will add a down-pointing arrow. This is a “clipping mask” and it will restrict your adjustment layer to just the layer below it.

Hope this is helpful.

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It’s a bug in Snow Leopard, read this post on the Adobe forum.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/497034?tstart=0

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Hi Bobby,

A path is not really an actual object or thing, it’s just a mathematical description of a thing. You see a path as a thin line, but remember that it’s just an idea, not an actual line. You can’t apply a stroke to a mathematical description 🙂 So, the stroke won’t be on your mask, it will be applied to the active layer.

The thickness of the stroke is controlled by your brush size setting. Before clicking the “Stroke path with brush” button (on the Paths palette) the Brush Tool must be selected and the thickness of the stroke will depend on the brush size setting on the option bar.

Hope this is helpful.