![]() ![]() Then when you export, if it crashes that blue square will disappear (file reverts back to when you didn’t have a blue square). Just before I export I add a blue square (add anything with bright colour) add it as a capital A (alternative) so you can quickly find it. I’m paranoid about my kerning going awol. This next bit is going to sound crazy, but I don’t care. So what I now do is kern in little bits, and export often. If you don’t get the little green message saying the font has exported, then it’s silently crashed and you have lost all your work up until the last time you exported - what the hell, 1 hour kerning down the drain! When you export your font - watch the Fontself plugin do its thing. What I can tell you is that it’s very annoying. I get no error messages.Īnd I’m not sure why it happens, too many glyphs? Glyph size too big? I just don’t know, but I think it’s file size related. Photoshop for me at least does not crash. The trouble is its hard to tell if that happened. I’ve found that sometimes when I export after kerning, the file kind of crashes and I lose all my latest kerning changes. If you don’t see this green message box your font has not exported. It will be much quicker to run a batch action on those linked smart objects to convert them to png files and standard photoshop files. That way you will have all the glyphs saved in a super organised way. Also, create folders to categorise your saved letters (see points below about layer names and sort your glyphs) Photoshop will prompt you to save the smart object as a. If you want to be really clever, and you are super organized then add each glyph as a linked smart object (Layer/Smart Objects/Convert to linked). And you can grab every layer and scale them down together, so everything keeps the right proportion. The beauty of this is that you can scale the smart object up or down without losing any quality at all. Create smart objectsĪs your original artwork is far bigger than you need I’ve found the best method is to convert that to a smart object and scale it down.įontself at the time of writing this won’t use the bigger smart object but rather uses the dimensions you have scaled it down to. The action also sets the transparency and cleans out any dust and stray paint marks. Then when I’m happy I’ll record an action so I can apply the exact same settings to each scan. I use the levels in Photoshop (Image/Adjustments/Levels) on one of my files, write down what level adjustment I made. I’ve found it much easier to create a photoshop action that changes the levels of my scans so everything is consistent. Testing early will allow you to iron out any problems (like transparency) the last thing you want is to is go back and re-do everything. Is it too transparent? or not transparent enough? Select the new typeface and test it on a colour background or colour photograph. Save it out as a font, quit and restart Photoshop. If your font has transparent glyphs then test a few glyphs first. When you have finished the font you can remove all the old versions (the files are mahoosive). Test often, don’t wait until you have every glyph in photoshop - that way leads to madness, trust me. ![]() This will avoid anything getting cached by your system. You do that via font info in the Fontself extension. What do I mean by that? Well, name your font name-v1, name-v2 etc each time you export. When testing your font change its name each time you export. ![]()
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