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Rags to riches: Gold type

Rags to riches: Gold type

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Rags to riches: Gold type

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- This week, we're going to complete our RAGS to Riches image. Now last two weeks, we created the RAGS up here. So now we got to turn the Riches into a nice, golden color. So I'm going to take the type, I'm going to move it down a little bit, give myself a little more room, right about there like that. That looks good. Okay. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the word Riches, I'm going to turn into a selection by command-clicking on the Preview icon. You notice if I come over here, it doesn't do it. But right there, click, and it turned it into a selection. So now I'm going to say Save Selection. Saves it to an alpha channel. All right. Let's go see it. There it is, so I could deselect it now. And in fact in the Layers channel, I don't need to see the word Riches anymore. So back to our Channels, here we are. I'm going to go in there and Blur it, give it a little bit of a Blur, little Gaussian Blur. Let's try a little more. Let's go back to the full 4 right there. Now…

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