Type the subtitle into the picture using the color white. Use a text-box for best control. Drag it where you want it. Under Layer Blending Options, take Outer Glow and give it a radius of one pixel.
Hi JJS,
Nice. We tried this at home and twiddled and tweaked a bit with the Outer Glow control panel and came up with the following add-on to your advice (HYDM):
to get that slight darkish/greyish edge aroud the letter that you also see on TV when the letters run into a white/light background, we did the following.
Do as JJS says: Make a text layer in white. Now copy the textlayer. Apply outerglow to the first layer in the manner that you like, choosing a white color in the color panel. (The color picker shows up in that control panel). Then go the upper – second – layer, & do basically the same tweaking and twiddling, but pick a black/mid grey color in the color picker instead of a white one. Put opacity in this outer glow control panel to max. 10%. The result is that you see a thinnish grey line around the letter that does not show in the darker parts of the image, but leave letters readable in the white bits.
We found that pixel size in the ‘size’-slider may be increased to more than 1 px if you use larger letters. We used 24px with good results.
The whole story is longer than this, but I don’t think you need all the detail. Play around a bit with this two-layer text set-up to find something you like.
HTH and GoodLuck
