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Type effect: Gold

Type effect: Gold

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Type effect: Gold

- [Instructor] This week, we're gonna create a nice little type treatment. We're gonna make a word, but it's gonna be made of gold. Okay, so let's start by creating the word. I'm gonna go over here into my text tool, and I'm gonna type right in here. I got Arial Black, which is a nice, thick font, and I'm gonna type in the word gold. There it is. So I have it. I'm gonna go in there and do a little distortion on it. So I Cmd + T, and let's make it a little bigger so we get a nice, big word like this. That looks good. Click OK. So now, the word right now is a little bit hard-edge, so I'm gonna kinda soften this up a little bit. So I'm gonna go into my Layers, and I'm gonna Cmd + Click on the preview icon to make it a selection, and then I'm gonna save that selection. Save to selection, and we'll call it gold. So there it is, and now we go into Channels and there it is, gold. So now I'm gonna deselect it. So what I'm going to do now is I want to round these edges. They are a little too…

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