Hi, welcome back to the Photoshop Training Channel.com,
I'm Jesus Ramirez.
In this video I'm going to show you how to identify fonts from an image,
so that you can use them in your designs.
This is going to be a complete guide on using
the Match Font feature in Photoshop.
I will divide this tutorial into three easy, digestible steps so that you can follow along,
no matter your skill level.
First, you will learn the basics of how Match Font works.
Then, we will work with a difficult image, and I will show you several tips and tricks
to make it work with Match Font and get better results.
And finally, I will show you how to perform the search directly on Adobe Typekit, which
gives you more options than Photoshop and it's a tool that I'm using more and more every day.
Make sure that you stick around until the end of the tutorial since that's when I will
be showing you the unknown tricks and features.
Okay, let's get started.
Let's start with a simple example so that I can show you how the Match Font tool works.
I'm sure that you've come across this problem before.
You're working on a design, and you need to use the font found in the photo.
This could be a client's logo or simply a font that you found
walking around the street, and you took a photo of it.
In the olden days
finding a font could have been a difficult task, but now you can let
Photoshop do all the hard work and let it identify the font for you.
I have a photo with the word "recycle," and if I wanted to work on a design using this
font, I need to find it first of course.
To do so, go into "type and select match font."
This brings up the match font window here on the right, and you're going to see the
results populate here.
The first thing that I need to do is make sure that the crop area
is selecting a single line of text.
So I'm going to click-and-drag these handles.
Make sure that you closely crop the selection to the left and right edges of the text.
Once you do so, you will notice that Photoshop will start populating a list of fonts that
are found both on your computer and on Adobe Typekit.
If you look at the icons here, you can see the types of fonts that we're working with.
The green Tk icon are the fonts found in Adobe Typekit.
If you don't have the Adobe Typekit fonts installed on your computer, then you can click
on them to download them into your computer.
In this case, I'm simply going to select the Rockwell Regular font.
Press "OK."
Then if I select the type tool, you can see that Rockwell is the font that is selected.
I can simply click, and I'm going to click on the left "align" button, and I'm going
to type the word "recycle."
Notice that this font is very similar to the font found on the photo.
It's not 100% identical; you have to keep in mind that match font searches for fonts
on both your computer and Typekit, and it's going to give you the closest match to what it finds.
In some cases you will not be able to find the font that is a 100% match, so use the
closest font available.
In the next example, I'm going to show you what to do with a difficult image.
Sometimes you may be working with a client, and you ask them for their logo, and they
send you something like this, where the photo is not very good, it's at an angle and Photoshop
won't be able to find the font.
So, for example, if I go and do the same steps, go into "type match font", and then try to
make a selection of that font, you will see that Photoshop's match font feature will not
be able to give us the fonts that are closely related to the font that I've selected.
You can see the example here.
None of those fonts are similar to the fonts found on the sign.
So, instead, we need to adjust the image to make sure that Photoshop can recognize the font.
All the steps that I'm going to take in the next example are not always necessary, but
I'm going to show them to you anyway so that you can try them on your photo in case you're having issues.
So, the first thing that we're going to do is make sure that we have a straight and a
correct perspective on the image before we choose match font.
So, to correct the perspective I'm going to click on the Crop Tool, and nested under it
we have the Perspective Crop Tool.
So, I can click on this corner here to create this line.
I'm following the edge of the red awning.
I'm going to click on that corner, come to this corner and go up, and I'm trying to match
the perspective as best as I can.
Then I can click-and-drag on these points to adjust the perspective.
If I click-and-drag and scale in perspective and the lines still match, that means that
I've got the perspective right.
So, I'm just clicking and dragging.
Notice how here the edge of the N matches the perspective, so it looks like I have the
perspective right on the right-hand side, and I'll do the same thing for the left, and
it looks like it matches as well.
So, what I'm going to do now is scale this in, so that it can select the word "ARK".
That is the font that I'm trying to match.
Once I have that selected, I can simply click on this check mark or press the Enter key,
that's Return on the Mac to commit the changes.
And notice how we remove the perspective from that photo and now it seems as if we're looking
at the text head-on.
If you didn't know about the perspective crop tool and you enjoyed this tip go ahead and
click on that like button now.
And by the way, if you want to learn another great trick that I came up with, with the
perspective crop tool check out my tutorial on placing anything in perspective non-destructively.
It's a great video that I'm sure that you will like.
I'll place a link right bellow in the description.
But anyway, in some cases the quality of the photo may not be the best so you may need
to adjust it.
Something that I like to do is press Ctrl Shift U, that's Command Shift U on the Mac,
to desaturate the image, we're removing the color from it.
Then I can invert the colors, so anything that is white will become black, and anything
that is black will become white.
Control I, that's Command I on the Mack to invert.
So, now we have a white background with dark text.
What I want to do is make the background completely white and the text black.
So I can go into Image, Adjustments, Levels and adjust the black point, move it to the
right to make the darker pixels darker.
Then click-and-drag the white point and move it to the left
to make the brighter pixels brighter.
Something like that.
Then press "okay."
In some cases, you may need to use the Dodge and Burn Tools.
So I can select the burn tool and target the shadows.
The Burn Tool makes pixels darker.
So I'm telling Photoshop that with this tool I'm going to burn or make pixels darker but
only affect the dark ones.
So, I can come in here and start painting on this K, and notice I'm making the K darker,
but I'm not affecting the background, and I can also work on the R as well.
Then I can select the Dodge tool and tell Photoshop that I'm only going to affect the highlights.
Maybe I'll increase the exposure to create a stronger effect.
Then I can paint over the letter A to make those pixels brighter.
And for the edge there I can just select the Brush Tool, make sure that white is my foreground
color and I can just paint.
And again, you don't have to do this with every image; I'm just showing you in case
that you need to do that with your image.
Then I can go back into Image, Adjustments, Levels and do that contrast adjustment once
again, then press "OK."
So, now that we have defined the text like so, I can go into "type match font," and I'm
just going to click-and-drag the corner handles there so that they select the text.
Photoshop now is going to search for those fonts, and I get much much better results.
Now I'm going to press "cancel," and that's because we're going to move onto the third
section of this tutorial where I'm going to use Typekit instead of Photoshop.
So now that I have this graphic, I'm just going to save it.
So you can just go into file, export, save for the web legacy, then click on "save,'
and you can just save it anywhere that you like.
I'm going to save it in this folder.
Then, go into the Typekit website,
and the Typekit website is typekit.com, and this is what it looks like.
And in this website, we can look at all the fonts found in Adobe Typekit.
And we can even search with an image, so you can click on this camera icon or simply drop
a file on this box so that the Typekit website could scan it.
And I'm going to use the ARK starter file that we just saved.
I'm going to load it into the website, Typekit will scan it and there it is.
If you need to, you can adjust the crop handles, in this case, I don't need to.
I'm just going to click on "next step."
Then you can make sure that the text here at the bottom actually reads what's on top.
In this case, it really didn't do that good of a job, but that's okay.
We can just type in the word "ARK," and I'll click on "next".
Then I'll scroll down, and you can see the results.
The reason that I like using this website is because I can also increase the size of the font.
And notice how I'm using the text that I typed in that previous screen, so I can actually
compare it to the text that I have, unlike in Photoshop.
In Photoshop you don't get a preview like this, and also you just saw me increase and
decrease the size of the text.
Also, I can come in here and just change the word to something else to see what it would look like.
So I'm going to type the word "ARK," and I'm going to scroll down, and I'm going to look
for the one that most closely matches the logo from the restaurant.
And in this case, it's the one at the very top.
Notice how I was able to find the exact font from that awning on that restaurant by using
Adobe Typekit.
The font is called Brush Script Standard medium, and I can simply click on "sync".
Then it will sync on to my Creative Cloud account, and you can see that notification,
it has been synced.
I can go back into Photoshop, create a new layer, disable the background, select the
type tool and find the font that I just synced into the Creative Cloud.
And here it is, Brush Script Standard.
If you can't find it, it might be easy if you click on this icon which only shows you
the Typekit fonts, and you will see it right there, Brush Script Standard.
I'll click on it, and I'll just make sure that black is my foreground color, click,
and type the word "ARK."
Then I'll commit the changes, then press "Ctrl T, Command T" to transform,
and I'm going to click-and-drag on the corner handle while holding Shift
to scale up and not distort the text.
I'll commit the changes again,
and as you can see this is exactly the text that was used in the awning.
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