572 Creating embroidered type in Photoshop

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland,…welcome to Deke's Techniques.…The holidays, which of course are upon us,…are traditionally a time for crafts,…which is why this week I'm going to show you…how to take some plain old text…and turn it into a full blown…embroidery effect inside Photoshop.…Here, let me show exactly how it works.…Alright, here's that final effect,…so you can see it on screen.…We're going to be starting off inside this denim illustration,…which comes to us from the Dreamstime image library.…

About which you can learn more and get deals…at dreamstime.come/deke.php.…I'll go ahead and turn off that URL layer…and I'll turn on this top layer right here,…which was original set in the font Helvetica Rounded.…Now in the event you don't have that font…loaded on your system…I've gone ahead and converted the characters…to a vector-based shape layer.…But it is worth noting that the effect…I'm about to show you works best…on rounded characters of type.…As you'll see, we'll need reinforcements…at any of the corners.…