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Can I create a font from JPEGs?
wake6
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Hi
I have taken some photographs that I now have in JPEG format (from RAW files) of things that are letter shaped eg a bicycle wheel for the letter “o”, a tall thin building for the letter “I”. I thought it would be fun to use them to create pictures that used these letters as text.
I could use Photoshop Elements to import the jpegs individually and arrange them on the canvas. But it occurred to me that if I wanted to do a lot of these pictures it may be easier if I could use the JPEGs to create a bitmap font that I could then just type with.
I realise that such a font would not be scaleable. I also realise that I would probably couldn't use it in a conventional word processor (or not one from the last 20 yrs anyway!).
I have done quite a lot of Googling on this but keep coming up with programs for creating vector fonts which is not what I want to do. I have found something called BitFonter but it costs $149 which is more than I wanted to pay for what is just a bit of fun.
I am using a Mac.
Does anyone know of any cheaper/free products that would achieve what I want (I already have Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3 and Photoshop Elements 11 and Lightroom 4)?
Thank you
I have taken some photographs that I now have in JPEG format (from RAW files) of things that are letter shaped eg a bicycle wheel for the letter “o”, a tall thin building for the letter “I”. I thought it would be fun to use them to create pictures that used these letters as text.
I could use Photoshop Elements to import the jpegs individually and arrange them on the canvas. But it occurred to me that if I wanted to do a lot of these pictures it may be easier if I could use the JPEGs to create a bitmap font that I could then just type with.
I realise that such a font would not be scaleable. I also realise that I would probably couldn't use it in a conventional word processor (or not one from the last 20 yrs anyway!).
I have done quite a lot of Googling on this but keep coming up with programs for creating vector fonts which is not what I want to do. I have found something called BitFonter but it costs $149 which is more than I wanted to pay for what is just a bit of fun.
I am using a Mac.
Does anyone know of any cheaper/free products that would achieve what I want (I already have Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3 and Photoshop Elements 11 and Lightroom 4)?
Thank you
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Fonts are vectors on the whole, what you are trying to do can't really be done as a font unless you vectorise the images.0
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Top two hits for create font from jpg
http://www.ehow.com/how_7268239_convert-jpg-truetype-font.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-FontOne by one the penguins are slowly stealing my sanity.0 -
One by one the penguins are slowly stealing my sanity.0
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Top two hits for create font from jpg
http://www.ehow.com/how_7268239_convert-jpg-truetype-font.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Font
Thank you for showing an interest in this. Unfortunately this methods and others that I found involve converting a bitmap to a monochrome vector image. I'm pretty sure that that would result in something unrecognisable compared the original colour JPEG photo if it would convert at all?0 -
Thank you for this. However, I have had a look at the documentation and it seems to be for designing fonts with its built in vector drawing program rather than importing a JPEG. It does say that it can export bitmap fonts though.0 -
The short answer is 'no'. However, if your photoshopping skills are very good there is a website that was recommended to me by my comics tutor called Your Fonts (I TRIED to give you a link, but MSE won't let me do that- it's yourfonts . com) which should let your create the font, provided you align it all correctly. I think that you pay around $5 for the font, then you get to keep it.
I hope this helps!0
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