From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

755 Enhancing a special word, such as “Haunted”

From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

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755 Enhancing a special word, such as “Haunted”

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're still inside Photoshop at which point I'll show you at least one way to enhance a special word, namely the word haunted. I'll go ahead and switch over to my composition in progress. You may recall that I converted all of the text to shape layers and so the easiest way to duplicate the word haunted onto its own layer is to select the ghoulish layer here inside the layers panel and then go ahead and select the black arrow tool, which Photoshop calls the path selection tool, and then partially marquee the letters in the word haunted. I recommend you just partially marquee them so that you avoid selecting the E in the word be. Now, we want to jump a copy of that word to its own layer and you can do that just by pressing Ctrl + J here on a PC or Cmd + J on the Mac. Now, click off the text to deselect it and you can see if I turn off that ghoulish layer, that I have now duplicated the word haunted to its own layer. I'll just go ahead and call this layer haunted, so I can keep track of it. Now, I want to lose the fill associated with this layer, but keep the layer effects. Notice that the layer is selected here inside the layers panel and we have a fill value of 100%. If I press the Shift key and then tap the zero key twice in a row, I will take that fill value down to 0%, as we're seeing here, which allows me to see through the letters, but we're still seeing those haunted strokes. Now, I want to adjust those layer effects by double-clicking on the word effects here inside the layers panel and notice how we've got two strokes. I don't need the bottom one, so I'll go ahead and click on it to select it and then I'll click on the little trashcan icon in order to delete it. Now, with the top stroke selected, notice that its size is four pixels, which is exactly what I want. The position is inside and so the only change I need to make is to change the color from orange to black. I'm just dragging that circle to the bottom-left corner of the color field. It doesn't matter what the hue value is, but both the saturation and brightness values should be zero, at which point, click OK. I'm going to move this dialogue box over so that we can see the word as we're working on it. Next, I'll click on the inner glow effect to both turn it on and switch to it, and I'm going to change the color to that same shade of orange we saw a moment ago. I'll click on that color swatch, and I'll dial in a hue of 33 degrees and I'll set both the saturation and brightness values to 90% and then I'll go ahead and click OK. I'll crank the size value up to 40 pixels. I'm going to leave the choke value set to 0% and I'm going to switch source from edge to center so that we get this effect right here. I actually want a much higher opacity value, so I'll take this guy up to 100% and then I'll change the blend mode to normal. This is the difference, by the way, between having the source set to edge, which gives us a glow around the edge of the letters, as compared to setting it to center so that the glow is emitting from the center out. All right, that takes care of that. I'll just go ahead and click OK to accept that change. Now, notice if I turn on that original layer that I'm bringing back the thick strokes, but it's very possible to bring back the thinner strokes in the background as well. So, I'm going to mask that text away. By pressing the Ctrl key or the Cmd key on the Mac and clicking the thumbnail for the haunted layer to load it as a selection outline. Then, I'll click on a ghoulish layer to select it and I'll drop down to the add layer mask icon at the bottom of the layers panel, and instead of clicking on it, I'll press the Alt key or the Opt key on the Mac and click in order to mask that text away. Now, notice that we end up with this kind of double stroke effect. To get rid of that, double-click on this tiny, little bit of emptiness where this layer is concerned, load the FX icon, in order to bring up the layers file dialogue box. Then, turn on this checkbox, layer mask hides effects. I want you to see what happens here. Notice that we've got these double strokes. Bright strokes on the outside as well as the inside. As soon as I turn that checkbox on, the strokes on the inside disappear, at which point I'll go ahead and click OK to accept that change. That is it. Now, if the blue outlines are bugging you, then just click off the letters like so and then I'll press Ctrl + zero or Cmd + zero on the Mac in order to center my zoom. That is at least one way to enhance a special word here inside Photoshop.

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