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Removing white backgrounds

Removing white backgrounds

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Removing white backgrounds

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- [Instructor] There are of course many different ways that you could have created your font, but quite often it's very common to find that people just draw things inside of a document and then go about the business of creating the font after the fact. Well, what you need to do in order to process this through Fontself ideally, and in most cases, is to actually remove the white background. And there are a number of different ways of doing that. But when you haven't got much white or near white inside of a font, there's a quick way that you might want to try out using one of the blending options inside of the advanced blending of a layer. Now here I have a background, so what I'm going to do is just click there on the padlock, which turns this into a layer, and I'll just zoom right in on some text. This one's fairly low-resolution and quite small, but don't worry about that too much. And then just in the area to the…

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