Photoshop 6.0 entering Copyright symbol

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myke_lee
May 31, 2004
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I am trying to see how I could enter Copyright symbol using PS 6.0. I know how to insert it using Word, but I would like to have a different font style.

I have seen the Copyright symbol that is very wide and broad that covers a large portion of the image. I am working on a project that has multiple images 3×3 inches in a large canvas. I would like to place the C symbol on each image but big enough to cover a large portion of the image.

I would like to dot as a layer, so I can control the density.

Thanks
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Ian_Lyons
May 31, 2004
Mike,

Your question gets asked so often that way back in the year 2000 we put it (and the answer) in the Frequently Asked Questions area of the forum. Hopefully you’ll find the following helpful:

Mathias Vejerslev "Special symbols €, ©, ® and ™" 1/24/02 2:42pm </cgi-bin/webx?13/1>
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Gene Palmiter
May 31, 2004
how do i see the faq? should it be posted here once in a while? please pardon me for typing one handed,,,,no…no….no….i have a cat in my lap!

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Mike,

Your question gets asked so often that way back in the year 2000 we put it
(and the answer) in the Frequently Asked Questions area of the forum. Hopefully you’ll find the following helpful:
Mathias Vejerslev "Special symbols ?,
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myke_lee
May 31, 2004
Thanks for the suggestion, but still I can’t find what I’m looking for.

I would like to see how I could enter a Copyright symbol with a different font than the one that comes up when entering ALT . for instance I have seen some that the letter C is very broad or wide.
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Mac_McDougald
May 31, 2004
Alt+0169 to make text based ©.
Or use Windows Character Map to copy/paste in.

It will come in as whatever font you currently have selected in PS.

Or highlight the ©, change font.

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Ian_Lyons
May 31, 2004
Myke,

The FONT you use is your choice and can be chosen from a very long list by simply selecting the Type tool "T" on the toolbar (left side of your Photoshop desktop).
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Phosphor
May 31, 2004
With many fonts, the extended characters— like these: ™ ® © — are not created with the same visual characteristics as the rest of the font. Often, those characters are "borrowed" from some simple, "generic" font like Arial, and inserted into the master font file when it is output from the font-creation software.
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r_harvey
May 31, 2004
Fonts follow codepage conventions, and they will have most characters 128-255, in a Windows or Mac character set. Tags in fonts identify their capabilities. Those special characters may not look just like the rest of the font, since the designer might have pasted them in from elsewhere, just to be complete. Very few fonts are missing at least some sort of special character support. It’s when you get to Unicode and platform-specific stuff that you begin seeing glyph substitution.

A dingbat font may not have a © character in the right place–it probably won’t have anything at all in that position–but the rendering device will still not substitute with a © from another font… more likely, just the default nobody-home character.

And then, there are the Killbots… don’t get me started on those.
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myke_lee
May 31, 2004
Thank everybody, I realize that this subject has been rehashed several times, but bear with me.

Yes, I am familiar using T from the toolbox and been able to select a font of choice. However, I was looking for a specific font (don’t know the name, but is one that I have seen that has the C symbol that is represented very thick or wide that takes a good portion of the image.

I have been testing by creating a layer, but I end up with the same type of fonts that are available in PS.
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r_harvey
May 31, 2004
Try something like Arial Black, Haettenschweiler, or Impact, set in a very large point size. Some very bold fonts have extremely bold © symbols.
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Phosphor
May 31, 2004
Or, you could make one to your liking as a Custom (Vector) Shape.

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