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Packaging Templates. Cacoo - Create diagrams online Real time collaboration. How many words do you know? Printable Calendars. Generate Your Own Fonts Online. Complete Template Use a suitable pen (e.g. a black permanent marker of fine or medium thickness) to draw the characters the way that you normally write.

Generate Your Own Fonts Online

Make sure you draw your characters into the designated cells. Only characters that are written down on the template are added to the font, so if you only need a few characters, then only write those down. If you don't want accented characters, you can skip page two of the template. All cells (except the signature cell) contain horizontal guidelines (actually four little marks on both left and right side of each cell) that should help you write the characters in the right dimensions, and in the best possible position in each cell.

The image below illustrates how to get the best results (first row) and what you should avoid (second row). 8 Sans Serifs you must have in your Font Collection. I’ve done some font collecting over the years.

8 Sans Serifs you must have in your Font Collection

But I’m boring when it comes to typography, mostly relying on the talents of Myriad Pro and Garamond as my base serifs and sans-serifs. But there have been a few more that have caught my eye, and this time it’s about sans-serifs. They’re great for headlines and subheads, and make posters and other artwork really pop. Here’s a look at 8 free sans serif fonts that you must have in your font collection. I’ve written a little bit about what I feel is the ideal uses for these fonts, but I’m sure your design skills will best judge what projects these go well with.

Museo Everything looks better with a little Museo in it. Museo can be used for headings, subheads, and some even make it look good as body copy (although the font size needs to be bumped up for readability). Nilland Something really close to Museo, and is especially good at smaller sizes, Nilland by Manfred Klein is a clean slab-serif font, free to download. Existence St Transmission. Pixel Fonts - Free Pixel Font Sites. Buy.

Pixel Fonts - Free Pixel Font Sites

Download. Create. Get Adobe Photoshop now at the Adobe Store. Find Photoshop CS4 tutorials and videos on our Photoshop CS4 Tutorials Page. Try before you buy. Pixel Fonts To The Rescue Graphic designers working on web projects often complain that when typefaces designed for print are set to lower sizes that they become harder to read and unattractive to the eye. Pixel Fonts — Limits & Restrictions Pixel fonts were created specifically for computers, with each pixel of the font designed on a grid that is exactly the same grid that is on your computer screen. Let's Pick A Pixel Font Some great pixel fonts can be found at Joe Gillespie's minifonts.com site. Pixel Fonts In Action Pixel fonts are great for website photo captions, because you can get a lot of text into a small area, and it will still be very legible.

Pixel Font Troubleshooting Checklist Follow these guidelines (from minifonts.com) to avoid the most common problems: Urbanfonts.com. Tattoo Fonts - Tattoo Font Generator. Curving The Edges of Images in Photoshop. I get a lot of search engine referrals from people looking to create curved images or curved rectangles in Photoshop.

Curving The Edges of Images in Photoshop

So here's a quick tutorial to show you how. Curved rectangles Curved rectanges are simple - there is tool in photoshop that will create the shape for you. You can access this tool by pressing U. This selects the Custom Shape Tool. Then simply draw your rectangle. Examples of curved rectangles where the radius alters the curve Curving the edges of shapes or photographs Often you will want to break up the hard edges of photographs of solid shapes like rectangles or photographs. When you open your photo the image will have one layer by default. Step one - Draw the Curve Selected the Rounded Rectangle as we did in the first example.

Step two - Select the Curved Rectangle In order to create a mask you need to select the curved rectangle you have just drawn. Adding a vectorlayer mask To curve off the shape we use a vectorlayer mask. Showing the finished image. Transferring your iTunes Library. For most users, iTunes does a great job of handling all of the details of managing your media library for you, allowing you to manage your content through iTunes itself and not having to worry too much about the underlying files and folders that make up your iTunes library.

Transferring your iTunes Library

Unfortunately, this user-friendly approach has one serious limitation: When it comes time to move your iTunes library, it can often be a bit of a challenge to figure out exactly what pieces you need to move and how to go about doing this. Many iTunes users start out with a basic iTunes library and use the default settings to store all of their media content on their primary internal hard drive. However, as you add new content over time, particularly with the additional video content now supported by iTunes, you may soon find that your library threatens to take over your computer. Another common scenario many users find themselves in is what to do when they upgrade to a new computer. How iTunes Manages Media Content.