Font Mess

[admin]

IF all else fails:

If it's a simple edit -- sometimes I can successfully edit a word or two by carefully using other letters that are contained in the image, on the same background, etc.

IF you cannot find the font, and you cannot "build" the edit from other characters in the file, then evaluate the backgrounds and set-up, and see if you can just RE TYPE IN the whole text passage using a "close" typeface and style.

sometimes edits like this will be impossible because the text runs over a photo or other "difficult" background that is impossible to edit.

At this point you have only TWO options:

1) Contact the client or whoever might be the "source" of the file, and ask, or

2) modify the art and layout to accommodate totally new type.

(which could entail placing a box or other graphic device over the passage, to contain the new text -- or perhaps cropping the image, or modifying so it works in a totally new layout with newly generated text.)

Sorry folks.

There are times when once the pixels are lost or modified, and there's no raw PSD file -- you just have to give up. Pixels that are gone, are gone.