PS text help

[tenohfive]

I'm trying to stick some text on a photo in Elements. What I'd like is to have two layers of the same text, the background text white and the foreground text coloured, and for the background to be fractionally bigger than the foreground to create a sort of shadow all around - so that the colour is visible and stands out (the proper background is various colours so it wouldn't normally.

I've tried a simple duplicate layer with the background text slightly bigger but it increases the gaps and the two text layers aren't aligned. That's the only thing I could think of.

Any idea how I'd do this in Elements?

[K12beano]

Haven't done this for ages in PS but you need to go to blending layers, you should just need one text layer to do this.

Can't remember exactly, but will have a quick gander.......

[Gemm]

Why don't you just use 'stroke', 'inner or outer glow' in layer style?

[K12beano]

Sorry - I was thinking "Full Phat Photoshop"


I see it's in Styles (much simpler) in PSE:

[tenohfive]

Gemm said:

Why don't you just use 'stroke', 'inner or outer glow' in layer style?

Because I didn't know Layer Styles existed.

Thanks gents, that's what I was looking for - I'll have a play and try and get it looking right.