480 Creating candy cane type in Photoshop

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…Now as you may be aware, it's the holiday season,…which is why today I'm going to show you…how to take this text set in plain old Myriad Pro Bold,…which is so boring it makes me want to snore…and we're going to round off the characters…and sugar coat them as well…in order to create this yummy, festive,…candy cane type entirely from scratch…inside Photoshop.…Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…Alright, here's the final peppermint candy cane type effect,…just so you have a chance to see it on screen.…

We're going to be creating this effect from scratch,…so I want you to go up to the File menu…and choose the New command,…or you can press control N, or command N on the Mac,…make sure that your unit of measure is set to Pixels,…set the Height to 1000 Pixels,…which isn't a very big document,…but it happens to work well on this screen,…and then here's the most important thing,…you want to make sure the Resolution value…is set to 72 Pixels per Inch.…