How to Replicate Fonts in PSE 8

Question

I don't know a better way to phrase the question. Basically, I wanna photoshop someone's name onto a birthday cake. I found a picture of a cake that says "Happy Birthday" already and I want to add the person's name. How to I add the name in the same font style used on the cake in the picture? Does that make sense?

Answer 1

The software isn't going to replicate the fonts used.
If the name has the same letters as in Happy Birthday, you could select each letter needed on a separate layer and "write" the name. You'd probably also have to soften the letter's edges to make them blend in with the cake.
If you can find a similar font, you could use the text tool and write out the name. There are lots of freeware font sites that have oodles of fonts. You might get lucky and find a similar one.
You might be better off simply finding a cake without lettering on it. Use the text tool to add all of the lettering yourself. You can add a style to the letters like maybe one of the icing styles on the Adobe exchange.
This link below will take you to the correct page with icing inserted into the field. They say for Photoshop but they'll work in Elements. Depending on your images resolution, you might have to adjust the style's scale to taste.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?searchfield=icing&search_exchange=16&searc h_category=-1&search_license=&search_rating=&search_platform=0&search_pubdate=&num=25&star tnum=1&event=search&sticky=true&sort=0&rnav_dummy_tmpfield=&Submit=