How to add Chinese Text/fonts in PS6 - help !!!!!!

I have to create this oriental collage of images soon and I need to add some chinese text to it. What the text says is not important - firstly, because I don't know either chinese dialect and secondly it will be seen by a western audience.

Surfing the net - I used to come across webpages that have been written in chinese and then IE5 prompts me to download the text support files - I never have before - but I just did recently assuming that might help - well in photoshop the 2 fonts "MS Song" & "MS mei" are there - but when typing on my keyboard - its still english. So clearly that was not the method............

......so can someone out there please help me and tell me how I can go about doing this? I am tearing my hair out - trying to solve this. I just need it for this one project - so I don't wish to purchase anything (I know there are a few retail items that will solve my problem)....and I'm sure I am not the first person to want to do this......

thanks in advance for your help!!!!!!

There are free fonts all over the internet that have Asian Characters.

But anyways, this is where I got mine:

http://www.51fonts.com

okay I went to 51fonts.com and they have two sections - PC english fonts and Pc chinese fonts - assuming this was what you meant - I downloaded some of the chinese fonts - "xx.ttf" and placed them in my windows\fonts folder - they show up in photoshop at the bottom after the english font listing, but when I type or apply onto text already written - its still english.

Am I missing something?

How are you able to use chinese characters? Have you got a font file that is something like dingbats or similar - that outputs characters or have you got an actual .ttf file that outputs to chinese in an english system?

Your going to have to walk me through this one......

thanks for the help!!

maybe you need a chinese windows or some software allow you type chinese.
maybe I can help you ,tell me the words you want,i'll make the words as gif file or jpg file,and send back to you.

Go here:

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts.html

do a little reading....and you'll be set.


Pop-Quiz:

Can anyone tell me what the "Babel", in the URL above, references?

Wow, if you follow a few links in the site that Torn posted, you will come to the one that I posted. Cool huh?.

Well it just feels like I'm following Torn's posts around this forum, so I think I'm going to bed.

WHITNEY - Thanks for the offer - but I think I will have problems if I use a jpg or something as I wish to add drop shadows and strokes to each character - but thanks for the offer.

tornupinside - I went there - but it didn't solve the problem as the files where not in ttf format - so windows didn't like it.

This is just to say that I have solved this problem out - and its perfect - well within the means that I want. I found a chinese dingbats file that contains characters and is mapped out for all letters on the keyboard - I even went one better and found Armenian, Arabic, Persian and Korean - and they all work in an English Windows system without having to download any additional components.

They are basically ttf font files that contain the actual foreign characters. So my wish to have chinese writing in Photoshop is now reality. It may not make much sense (same goes for the other languages!) for someone who knows the language, but as far as looks are concerned - it achieved the job.

If anyone wishes to do the same - leave a note and I'll try and find the link again.............


...................thanks for the help though, guys and girls!!

http://www.1001fonts.com/ :tick on foreign imitations
http://www.iconian.com/

try those..