https://community.zazzle.com/t5/share-your-tips-tricks/how-to-get-nice-clean-text-strokes/m-p/181400#M1700 <P>Text strokes are placed above the text. Depending on the font and thickness of the stroke, this can lead to undesired results, especially on handscript and thin fonts. Here's a little, easy walkthrough to solve the problem and get neat results:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="textstrokes.jpg" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.zazzle.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/16921iBEF2188F80644421/image-size/large/is-moderation-mode/true?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="textstrokes.jpg" alt="textstrokes.jpg" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;1. Edit and format your text as desired and enable the text stroke option. Choose the stroke color. The thickness doesn't matter yet. Depending on the font used, you will see the imperfections and overlapping. If you want to use the text as an editable template, enable it now and edit the template label and URL.</P><P>2. Duplicate your text or text template. Disable the text stroke option so you get a plain look (note: the stroke of the underlying original will shine through, nothing to worry about). Move the new text object in the layer bar ABOVE your original with the stroke. If you have duplicated a template, make sure you do NOT change the URL. The URL MUST be the same so both duplicates are changed when the text gets edited in the form.</P><P>3. Switch back to the original text/template with the stroke and adjust the stroke thickness to your liking. Done. The stroke is now behind your text and the text itself is neat. When a customer edits the text template, both duplicates are updated.</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:16:44 GMT Fiorenzo 2024-12-04T09:16:44Z https://community.zazzle.com/t5/share-your-tips-tricks/how-to-get-nice-clean-text-strokes/m-p/181400#M1700 <P>Text strokes are placed above the text. Depending on the font and thickness of the stroke, this can lead to undesired results, especially on handscript and thin fonts. Here's a little, easy walkthrough to solve the problem and get neat results:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="textstrokes.jpg" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.zazzle.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/16921iBEF2188F80644421/image-size/large/is-moderation-mode/true?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="textstrokes.jpg" alt="textstrokes.jpg" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;1. Edit and format your text as desired and enable the text stroke option. Choose the stroke color. The thickness doesn't matter yet. Depending on the font used, you will see the imperfections and overlapping. If you want to use the text as an editable template, enable it now and edit the template label and URL.</P><P>2. Duplicate your text or text template. Disable the text stroke option so you get a plain look (note: the stroke of the underlying original will shine through, nothing to worry about). Move the new text object in the layer bar ABOVE your original with the stroke. If you have duplicated a template, make sure you do NOT change the URL. The URL MUST be the same so both duplicates are changed when the text gets edited in the form.</P><P>3. Switch back to the original text/template with the stroke and adjust the stroke thickness to your liking. Done. The stroke is now behind your text and the text itself is neat. When a customer edits the text template, both duplicates are updated.</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:16:44 GMT https://community.zazzle.com/t5/share-your-tips-tricks/how-to-get-nice-clean-text-strokes/m-p/181400#M1700 Fiorenzo 2024-12-04T09:16:44Z https://community.zazzle.com/t5/share-your-tips-tricks/how-to-get-nice-clean-text-strokes/m-p/181596#M1701 <P><a href="https://community.zazzle.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/128">@Fiorenzo</a>: Both simple and elegant!</P><P><A href="https://www.zazzle.com/store/colorwash" target="_blank"><STRONG><FONT color="crimson">C</FONT><FONT color="darkmagenta">o</FONT><FONT color="blueviolet">l</FONT><FONT color="mediumslateblue">o</FONT><FONT color="royalblue">r</FONT><FONT color="darkcyan">w</FONT><FONT color="green">a</FONT><FONT color="yellowgreen">s</FONT><FONT color="orange">h</FONT><FONT color="black">'</FONT><FONT color="tomato">s </FONT><FONT color="darkred">H</FONT><FONT color="purple">o</FONT><FONT color="mediumpurple">m</FONT><FONT color="blueviolet">e</FONT></STRONG></A></P> Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:58:24 GMT https://community.zazzle.com/t5/share-your-tips-tricks/how-to-get-nice-clean-text-strokes/m-p/181596#M1701 Barbara 2024-12-05T11:58:24Z https://community.zazzle.com/t5/share-your-tips-tricks/how-to-get-nice-clean-text-strokes/m-p/181637#M1702 <P>That's the issue with text strokes. To get clean results you have to put the strokes behind the filling. That's an option you have in professional graphic and image editing software. Unfortunately, the designer puts them on top which leads to bad results, so you have to trick the system. Wishing you a great Advent/Holiday time!</P> Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:02:06 GMT https://community.zazzle.com/t5/share-your-tips-tricks/how-to-get-nice-clean-text-strokes/m-p/181637#M1702 Fiorenzo 2024-12-05T17:02:06Z