making transparent font part white

[frits]

Hi Guys,

I use a font that has snow on it. When I place it on a dark background the snowy part of the letters is transparent and the background comes through it. How can I make the transparent part of the font white?

Regards,
Frits

[Big Frank]

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[frits]

Frank thats great!,

It works pretty well. The font I use isn't that good I thing so I have to break the font a little bit more. But is does the trick.

Thanks very much,

Greetings,
Frits

[Acorn]

Better, clone the text, convert to editable shapes; use the Shape tool to remove the inner parts, make all white and move behind the original.
Quicker, create a number of small white shapes and put behind.

Acorn

[angelize]

Hi Guys, These are interesting solutions. I have a method I use to turn any font into snow topped text. Simply type your text in your desired font. You can use any font you like. Clone your text and make it white. select the freehand tool and set the smoothing down quite low I use around 10 to 12. Draw a jiggly line across your white text to create your snowline then select the line and the white text and hit ctrl+4 to slice the text with the line. Discard the bottom half and voila! snow topped text

You can now go in and use the eraser tool to clean up your snow a bit if needed. Or add a bevel to create the illusion of a heavy snow fall.

[Acorn]

Clever coming from the opposite direction.
Acorn

[puw]

Hi Guys, These are interesting solutions. I have a method I use to turn any font into snow topped text. Simply type your text in your desired font. You can use any font you like. Clone your text and make it white. select the freehand tool and set the smoothing down quite low I use around 10 to 12. Draw a jiggly line across your white text to create your snowline then select the line and the white text and hit ctrl+4 to slice the text with the line. Discard the bottom half and voila! snow topped text

You can now go in and use the eraser tool to clean up your snow a bit if needed. Or add a bevel to create the illusion of a heavy snow fall.

I think I can follow this method very easily - thanks

[puw]

@ Angelise

I tried your method, using ActionIs font. Everything worked, split etc. It needed a bevel as no matter how I positioned the sliced/copied text over the original, I ended up with an outline effect (with outline at zero), whether it was left/top/right or top or bottom etc. The darker coloured text behind created an outline on screen. But then with the bevel effect, you lost this outline but unfortunately also lost the definition of the font making the words not very legible.

So I started again, this time cloning instead of copying, 20% smoothing, no outline and I got the same result. So I added a .25 outline and this removed the problem of the original coloured text causing the outline effect. Then I added bevel, only small, then I began to play with the bevel settings and found Ruffle Frame 3, with Light Elevation set at 11 degrees gave a more natural uneven finish, and kept the 'arty' style of the fonts curls etc within Xara. But exporting it as a jpg looked terrible, even playing with the dpi. The other problem I found with the bevelling was the 'all round' chiselling effect.

So what's the answer, to keep the font detail and maintain a high quality export?

[eliot110]

It helped me a lot. Works pretty well. Thank you