Funny thing is, it doesn't have an outline on it. We look at it is says that she is using regular for her font, and in other sections of the picture without changing anything the font isn't bold. Weird huh? First place we checked was the appearance panel, but according to that there is a no stroke on the outside of the letters. Next we checked the font to make sure that it wasn't selected to be bold....but it says that it is reguar.

Just now as I was chatting with you I was examining the file, and looked closely at everything again in the appearance panel......it had a little icon on it that resembled the swatches in the tool bar. When I clicked on it it said that the layer had paint on it, and then the type came up and there was a stroke on the letters. How would a student manage to do that?

Thanks for responding! It is great to have colleague support with these issues. Thanks a million.

If the font appears bold but you are not using a bold font you might want to check to see if the student has accidentally put a black out line on the font. If yes, just take the outline off and the font should look fine.

If the text is disappearing you might want to suggest that the students use smaller words separated by spaces. If the use one continuous word Adobe won't know how to break the type. If the words are too long then they won't fit in the area nd you will just need to make the size of the font smaller. I usually ask my students to use a variety of words so that they break differently instead of just repeating the same word.

Hi,

I have a student working on this project, and previously has constructed with success. However, this time randomly one side of her picture is bolded (the font) and we cannot unbold it. Does anyone know why this is happening? I thinkI have tried everything........

Another curious thing is another student typed into a container and all her text disappeared. We figured that it might have been her font size causing issues, and when she increased the size the issue seemed to resolve. Does anyone have any feedback?

You were all so helpful last time I look forward to hearing your input. Thanks!!!

One step that I use, which really makes it much easier to decide which areas to fill with text, is to use the Live Trace feature to create a 4 or 6 shaded grayscale image.

Following that you could use the smooth tool to even out the fill areas as needed.

I find this step makes it much easier for students who feel less creative or artistic.

Very inspiring! Can't wait to try this project with my class.

Has anyone found it works well with a particular age group - or any?

Also. InDesign VS Illustrator - will either be workable for this project?

I think it would be harder to do this in photoshop. However, I have talked to other teachers who did this in Photoshop but instead of having thme put type in a shape, they have students make words and then distort them to fit the different shapes of the face. I think it might be easier in Photoshop to approach it that way.

I love the idea for this project, as do my students. We only have Photoshop though. Do you think it could be converted to a PS assignment?

Julie,

I can't seem to find the ste-by-step directions either. I've downloaded the zip file (19.6 MB) which has a 40-page pdf with content standards, some basic guidelines, and several student samples. I think students would need some initial guidance using Illustrator and the specific steps and tools to achieve those results. Is there a file with greater detail that I'm not finding?

Many thanks - it looks like a real interesting project.

Yes, I think it would be possible in InDesign because you can still make shapes and type in them. It might be a little bit harder with doing single words for details, since InDesign puts them in each in a box. However, I do think it's perefectly doable. You would just follow the same directions for Adobe Illustrator, but using the InDesign tools.

I'd love to know how to do this in InDesign also? Is it possible? Very cool assignment!

What a great idea!! I was just saying to my friend how I hate my Typography activity for class and I need a good on and then this showed up in my email. Can't wait to try this out!!! thank you.

I found the step by step. Don't have illustrator, only photoshop so don't think I could do this awesome assignment.

Great project, however we have indesign, not illustrator. Would it be possible to do this same unit using indesign?

@Denise - click the link under the related content section in the post above for the step-by-step instructions.

Love theproject but don't see the step by step instructions. Can you help? I clicked on the link above but it just sent me back to the assignment. Sorry for my confusion...

Denise

Step by steps are posted at http://edexchange.adobe.com/posts/ecca4f059b. Hope you like it.

Please let me know when the step by step is posted or send me via email to: michelle.hollingsworth@rcstn.net

Thanks for sharing!

Hi Julie,

Very excited to see your supporting documentation! One suggestion is to make the ppt into a PDF and then reduce the file size. You could also put the Adobe files into a PDF portfolio and that usually makes reduces the size and makes it easier to post.

Cheers,

~Adobe Education

Love this project - do you have a step-by-step tutorial for this?