Text Settings

CA Dreamer

CA Dreamer

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Hey guys... Dumb Question...

What settings do you use for your text on LOs? When I leave it alone, it looks funny to me and when I shadow, it looks funny to me.... Any secrets? I feel like I am the only one who doesn't know because everyone else's LOs look great!
 
I don't shadow it. If you were to add text to a paper layout, no matter how sunny it was... there wouldn't be a shadow. :D

I also try not to put text on top of stuff. Like I wouldn't write on a button IRL.

But I'm weird.
 
Angie4b1g said:
I don't shadow it. If you were to add text to a paper layout, no matter how sunny it was... there wouldn't be a shadow. :D

I also try not to put text on top of stuff. Like I wouldn't write on a button IRL.

But I'm weird.
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^^that too.
 
you could try lowering the opacity of the text just a tad. especially if you are using black to type. I usually lower the opacity of the layer to like 85 or 90 percent
 
I don't ever shadow journaling text. If I use a font as a title and add a stroke to it (like a white sticker-like stroke), then I will usually add a shadow because if it were a paper layout, it probably would have either been stickers or cut out from paper.

If I have a font that isn't standing out enough against the background, then sometimes I will duplicate the text layer to make it a little more bold.
 
I agree, always think of it as a paper LO. Never write on things that you can't write on IRL and never shadow what would normally be written with a pen or marker.
 
I usually change the opacity & filter to multiply (sometimes I just keep scrolling through) because if I wrote in marker on the page, I think that some of the paper would show through.
I never shadow journaling & I love making stickers out of text, too.
 
lovely1m said:
I agree, always think of it as a paper LO. Never write on things that you can't write on IRL and never shadow what would normally be written with a pen or marker.
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Yup,this. I only write on paper, and I never shadow. You could add a bit of a bevel at the proper angle, and it can look "dented" in, like writing with a pen could.
 
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