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Hi,

Want to scan in handwritten words on paper as I need to incorporate them into a photo project I'm doing. The query is how can I then use photoshop to manipulate these? Looking to change colour and size. Is it possible???

Any help on this would be really, really appreciated.

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What I would do is after you scan the text (im guessing its black text on white paper) then get the bit you want on a new layer. Desaturate it so that all the colour is gone. Resize using the Move tool(v) tick the show transform controls and drag to make bigger, smaller etc. if you hold shift it will maintain its correct aspect ratio.
As its black you want to change it to another colour, say read for example. So make a new layer above the text, paint some red over the text using the paint brush. Just enough so it covers the writing. Dont worry about overlapping. Then you want to change the blending mode of this red layer to something like 'lighten' or 'screen' This is over on the layers box, usually on the right side.

Then you can flatten the two layers together and you have red text.
You now have the option to use the hue sliders to change it more easy.

I hope that helps
 
Text in photoshop is a whole new thing for me so big thanks for this.

Yes it's black ink on white paper - think changing colour might be a little too ambitious for me at this stage, sounds complicated.

Desaturating will that remove the paper colour and not the text? Also is is possible to move the text around - say it's across three lines now - but change this to go across four?

Hope that makes sense :)
 
Not easy to see what you are trying to do.

If the text is black on white paper there is no colour anyway so desaturating would only get rid of any strange colours that might have been scanned in. That way you have a nice simple base to start at.

If the paper has lines on it, then it makes things tricky as im guessing you want to just make the text larger and keep the lines the same. If you do then you need to select the text and rub out the lines around it so all you have is black text on plain white paper.
If you then put this over some of the empty lines and change the blending mode to multiply(i might be wrong there, choose through the list until the white around the text disperses and the lines show through from the layer below)

Another way is to send me an email at richard@richardgrebby.co.uk and i'll see what I can come up with ;)
 
Thank you ... will probably be taking that offer of help up! Will have a play around with things this week and be in touch if having problems. Cheers again :)
 
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