Hello I'm trying to follow this tutorial but I'm stuck on the third or so step.

<http://www.adobetutorialz.com/articles/65/1/Graffiti-Text>

Whenever I try to fill the letters with the gradient tool, it just fills the entire screen and not the letters specifically.

In the tutorial it looks like the letters are actually selected with a dotted line around them but I can't for the life of me figure out how this is done.

Hope someone can .

Cheers

Hello
You need to select the letters
i guess you can easily do this if you just select the layer of th text

for this:
1.you need to find layers pallete, go to menu chose "windows" and then
layers.
2.and in layers pallete (normally lowere right corner), whyle you hold
down control button (ctrl) on yuor keyboard click on the icon of the
layer you want to select (thats for windows, i dont know for mac)

if you done this properly you will see a doted line going around the
text

I hope you make it

good luck

On 24 Áðñ, 01:40, j...@adobeforums.com wrote:
> Hello I'm trying to follow this tutorial but I'm stuck on the third or so step.
>
> <http://www.adobetutorialz.com/articles/65/1/Graffiti-Text>
>
> Whenever I try to fill the letters with the gradient tool, it just fills the entire screen and not the letters specifically.
>
> In the tutorial it looks like the letters are actually selected with a dotted line around them but I can't for the life of me figure out how this is done.
>
> Hope someone can .
>
> Cheers

This is how (from the tutorial)... "Ctrl/Cmd click on the layer to select it."

By the way, that is kind of a crappy tutorial. There are better ways to do this. Look up Clipping Mask.

letters are actually selected with a dotted line around them




This can be done by selecting the type (double click the T in the Layers palette) - then Layer > Type > Create Work Path.

Then from the Paths palette click on the little icon at bottom that converts a path into a selection.

DG:

Tute has text rasterized as first step. Hence Ed's dig.

J

Ah...

None of that is necessary. Make text. Make a new layer above. Fill that layer with gradient. Alt-click on the line between Layers to make Clipping Mask. That's all you need to do.

Now the text is fully editable (you can change the font, the wording, warp it, etc.). The gradient can also be manipulated independently of the text. Everything van be resized or repositioned non-destructively and independently.

If an outline stroke is desired to it as a Layer Style and that will be totally editable too.

Tank you..

Ed Hannigan schrieb:
> None of that is necessary. Make text. Make a new layer above. Fill that layer with gradient. Alt-click on the line between Layers to make Clipping Mask. That's all you need to do.
>
> Now the text is fully editable (you can change the font, the wording, warp it, etc.). The gradient can also be manipulated independently of the text. Everything van be resized or repositioned non-destructively and independently.
>
> If an outline stroke is desired to it as a Layer Style and that will be totally editable too.