Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you
how to use the Match Font feature in Adobe Photoshop. And this is a really awesome way
to just use Photoshop to identify fonts in your images. All right, let's get started.
Ok, so first, we're going to open up a image that I found on Pexels.com.
I'm going to open this in Photoshop. And this works best if the text is just straight across,
so I'm going to rotate this. So I'll click on the little lock button to create a layer out
of the background. And then I'll hit CMD T on my keyboard, or CTRL T on a PC, and just rotate this
around. That looks pretty good. So I'll hit Enter Return to commit my changes. Now I'm going to
make sure that I've clicked on the layer that has the text on it, and I'll come up here to Type and
>Match Font. Now two things happen. We get this dialog box that gives us some instructions. And
we also get this crop area on our screen. And it says that we need to adjust this. So we'll do it.
I'll grab this corner of the crop area and this corner. We'll just move this over.
Ok, and as soon as I get it to where it's cropped in like this, I'll automatically get
results on my dialog box, and it's come up with some options here. Now, because this text has
shadows and a lot of little pieces that aren't part of the font like these little nubs up here,
we're going to get some kind of strange results like these ones that have shadows on the type.
And these fonts here are all from Adobe Fonts. So that's what this checkmark down here means. I'm
going to uncheck this and see if it can find fonts that are not in Adobe Fonts. Maybe I have these on
my system. Ok, so I think the closest thing that I'm seeing here is the Poppins Bold. So I'm going
to choose that one and say OK, and now I'll hit T on my keyboard to start typing. Now the really
nice thing about this is, it automatically starts typing in Poppins Bold. So now I can just type the
word that I want, which is BREATHE, and position it right on top of the other word BREATHE,
and then we can space it out the way we want. I'm using OPT or ALT and the right and left arrows to
change the spacing between each letter. And this looks pretty good. So I'll move it out of the way.
Now, it's not exactly the same font, but I think it's pretty close. And I think it'll probably work
with whatever we decide to type instead. So I'm going to change this to
HELLO. And I'll double click on my color, and just sample this color here. So it looks a lot like it.
And then after that, I can start adding all the shadows, and maybe add some little nubs
so these look like the type of letters that would fit into this pegboard. So that's how Photoshop
Match Font works. And I will say there's a lot I like about this feature, especially the fact
that I can just start typing with the chosen font. But I do think that this tool could be improved.
It would be nice if it actually showed the BREATHE when we're trying to choose what font looks best,
because I think it just had SAMPLE instead of the word that I need. Another issue is that I
don't think this works quite as well as some of the other font identification software out there
like What the Font or What Font Is. So if you want to try those options, I do have another
video on how to use those and it should be up at the top of your screen on the right.
So check out that video if you want more options on what font it could actually be. The way I would
use this in my workflow is I would first try the Match Font here in Adobe Photoshop because it's
so convenient and fast. And it automatically will start typing in the font you want, which is nice.
If that doesn't work and you're not able to find a good font to match this, then go out and
use What the Font. All right, if you liked this video and you want to see more videos like this,
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