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Type effects in Photoshop: Using gradient and stroke layer styles

Type effects in Photoshop: Using gradient and stroke layer styles

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Type effects in Photoshop: Using gradient and stroke layer styles

- We're gonna create some cool-looking type. Nothing fancy, just something a little funky. Now, the point is it's not exactly what I'm doing, it's all the different steps that went into it. So, you make a change here, make a change there, and you can get a very similar effect with a total different outcome. So let's go in here and create our little word. So I'm just gonna go in here and get our text tool, and I'm gonna type in the word "blip". I'm gonna use a lowercase "i" and all the others, these nice big letters. There you go, the word "blip". So it's a little large right now, so I'm gonna just shrink it down a little bit. Let's bring it down to about 350. That's a good size, right there. Blip. Now, we're gonna go in here and rasterize this. So now we go in and say "Rasterize" the "Type". So I can now start to play around with some individual letters. So I'm gonna go in there and let's take the "P" and just gonna go in there and flip it, right from this corner here and just kinda…

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