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[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Adding a stroke to some text in Adobe[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] Photoshop can be an effective technique, but most strokes stop at just one. Some designers may try to add another stroke and end up just editing the original one. But there's an easy technique to add a stroke onto another stroke, and three or four or more strokes on the same text.


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Double and Triple Strokes Photoshop Tutorial




Step 1



Open Photoshop and go to File>New for a new file at this size and click OK.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]


Step 2



Click the Text tool in the toolbar and click anywhere and type in some text. Don't click-and-drag a text box, but instead just click once and then type so we can click-and-drag a corner to resize it later. I set the color of mine to #4891dc by highlighting the text and then clicking the color on the Options palette.

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Step 3



Change the font to something that will look good with strokes, such as an san serif font (arial or verdana instead of times new roman). I set it to Maiandra GD. Then click the Move tool and click-and-drag a corner to make it a little bit bigger. Remember to hold Shift to maintain proportion. After resizing, press Return (PC: Enter) to apply resize.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]


Step 4



Go to Layer>Layer Style>Stroke.

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