OT: help with symbols/shapes for photoshop

musman wrote on 4/6/2004, 10:27 PM
I know this isn't the right place to ask about this, but I have no idea where is, so I was hoping someone could help me out.
What I'm looking for are those kinds of curvey lines or shapes that people often use around the titles of their movies. They sometimes look kind of like leaves or branches, that sort of thing. I've been searching around font sites, but haven't found anything like this.
Can anyone tell me where to go for this kind of thing? Thanks ahead of time for any help!

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/6/2004, 11:56 PM
They are probley custom drawn images/animations. You *COULD* capture a frame or two from a movie you know they are in, setup that pic next to a blank one in photoshop, then try to duplicate it by hand.

That would work.
farss wrote on 4/7/2004, 12:03 AM
There is a lot of ways to do this in photoshop and I even worked thru a tutorial on how to make things like roadsigns in PS but dmaned if I remember how now. Trouble with things like PS unless you're using it all the time you soon forget.

Probably you create a path and then use that to draw the lines and I remember making the lines nice and fat by adding inner and out glow. Sorry I've not been much help....

Heaps of good books around though, seem to recall one targetting just PS for videographers.
Spot|DSE wrote on 4/7/2004, 12:49 AM
If you check out www.clipart.com, you'll find a lot of these sorts of things, prebuilt. Definitely worth the 5.00 a month or so.
TorS wrote on 4/7/2004, 1:18 AM
Get symbol fonts (dingbats etc) - many are free and contain frames and stuff. Use them in Vegas text editor (or Photoshop if you want to go the longer way).
Tor