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Brokyn
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 Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 1:41 pm Post subject: Fonts |
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I know a lot of you are font fanatics, so I'm hoping one of you know how to go about doing this.
Do any of you know of any good foreign fonts, namely Japanese? I'm fiddling around in photoshop and need a decent Japanese font to pull everything together. I tried freestyling with my stylus on a practice image, and let's just say it didn't come out as awesome as I was hoping. In fact, I'll let you be the judge:
I would assume it to be legible, but then again I'm not at all acquainted with the language.
Anyway. Is it even a font issue, or a photoshop thing? I know I have Microsoft's Japanese font pack installed on my laptop, but photoshop just can't seem to make any use of it.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 2:27 pm Post subject: Re: Fonts |
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| Brokyn wrote: |
I know a lot of you are font fanatics, so I'm hoping one of you know how to go about doing this.
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I just use the Japanese fonts that show up on Microsoft Word. If you're gonna print it, you should go to a kanji stroke site. Handwritten kanji and printed kani look different. Your 'i' from 'iku' (I'm assuming that's your intent since you only used kanji and no hirogana for tense) looks really funny for handwritten. The difference is that cursive and typed kanji have 'brush style.' With just a pencil the flares look a tad wierd.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| That's Hiroyuki, not iku... or whatever you were implying. |
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Brokyn
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Well, I managed to find a way to sneak Japanese fonts into Photoshop. I (and Vhen) are guessing PS requires a plugin or something to actually input the characters. Anyway, I bypassed that with a little trickery involving Word. Sweet.
So here's the end result in my test photo. Enjoy.
I'm wanting to adjust it so the colour looks like it's coming from his eye. But I don't know. And I bet those filters on the characters make the whole thing look ten times better.
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too bad you don't have a wacom tablet or good hand-mouse coordination, or i'd say draw them in PS with brushes.
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| SolitaryTurnip wrote: |
| That's Hiroyuki, not iku... or whatever you were implying. |
The kanji is said in it's plain form as 'i' as in 'to go.' And that's what it means as well. 'iku' is the plain form of ikimasu.
Hehe. In case you can't tell, I find it impossible to read Japanese names. But thankfully, so do most Japanese because each kanji has 2-3 ways to say it.
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Brokyn
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| soundless wrote: |
| too bad you don't have a wacom tablet or good hand-mouse coordination, or i'd say draw them in PS with brushes. |
Yeah, that'd be great. All I have is this tablet PC deal. It's great for writing notes, but sucks for actual art stuff. Too bad I bought this way before they started making them with pressure sensitivity.
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| Kit wrote: |
| SolitaryTurnip wrote: |
| That's Hiroyuki, not iku... or whatever you were implying. |
The kanji is said in it's plain form as 'i' as in 'to go.' And that's what it means as well. 'iku' is the plain form of ikimasu. |
... I know.
I was saying that it was a noun, not a verb, so he doesn't need to mark the tense or whatever you were saying. Maybe I just didn't understand your first reply.
Anyway, it looks much better now, heh. |
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| SolitaryTurnip wrote: |
| Kit wrote: |
| SolitaryTurnip wrote: |
| That's Hiroyuki, not iku... or whatever you were implying. |
The kanji is said in it's plain form as 'i' as in 'to go.' And that's what it means as well. 'iku' is the plain form of ikimasu. |
... I know.
I was saying that it was a noun, not a verb, so he doesn't need to mark the tense or whatever you were saying. Maybe I just didn't understand your first reply.
Anyway, it looks much better now, heh. |
I was just saying that you write the 'i' as in 'iku' character (I wasn't sure if any of the other kanji can also be said as 'i' so I specified -- I sucked at kanji, which is why it's a good thing every sign in Tokyo is printed with hirogana and romanji for the dead brains like me) without the little taily thing like in printing. Sorry for the confusion.
But yes, google images has loads of good kanji to steal if you put in the base word.
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So uh, how would everyone judge the final product thurr? I'm tempted to make a whole Iron Chef suite, regardless if anybody will use them for anything or not. I just need something to keep me busy so I don't have to study.
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| Brokyn wrote: |
So uh, how would everyone judge the final product thurr? I'm tempted to make a whole Iron Chef suite, regardless if anybody will use them for anything or not. I just need something to keep me busy so I don't have to study.
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It looks good. The font looks like dull metal, which, really, makes the outcome pretty amusing. If it were me, though, I'd put the point of the red splash as his eye...not to make it look like it's coming from there -- not sure if it would -- but because it would look more linear? Maybe.
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