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Creating blurry shadow type

Creating blurry shadow type - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating blurry shadow type

All right, so as I mentioned, I'm going to ultimately show you how to use this thing called the Contour option in order to achieve a dimensional effect. But first, in order to set the stage properly, I'm going to show you a quick trick that you can use to blur live text, and you can apply it to shapes as well. So this works with vector- based shapes just as easily. And ultimately, the trick is to turn the text or shape into a shadow version of itself. So it just becomes a floating shadow without anything casting the shadow. It's like you have a ghost layer as you're about to see. I have saved the results from the previous exercise as Box of dreams.psd found inside the 21_layer_FX folder. And I am going to make a few modifications and then save over this file, by the way. So if you're opening it up, it might look a little different than this, and this is why. I decided that the effect was a little murky. And I was sitting here looking at it. I wanted more sharply focused letters in…

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