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

756 Cheating letters into an ancient border

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

756 Cheating letters into an ancient border

- [Instructor] All right now there's just one more thing to do. Notice that the edge of the paper texture right here cuts into a few of the letters including the capital S in the beginning of sorry the C at the beginning of cheaters as well as the lowercase U at the end of the word you and the D at the end of haunted. I want to cheat those letters back outward like so even though this doesn't necessarily make sense. Why would the paper get worn along the edges but somehow the letters would survive? And the answer is, because it looks cooler that way. So, I'll go ahead and switch back to my composition so far and this is really pretty straightforward. I'm just going to load up the letter outlines by pressing the Control key, or the Command key on the Mac so that my little pointing finger has a dotted square next to it. And then I'll click on the thumbnail for this layer to load it up as a selection outline. Now I'll go up to the paper layer and I'll click on its layer mask in order to make it active. And then I'll just go ahead and grab the Brush tool which you can get by pressing the B key. And I'll right-click inside the image window and make sure that my hardness value is set to 0%. All right, now I want to make sure my foreground color is black and you can make that happen by tapping the d key to get your default masking colors in which case the foreground color is going to be white. And then press the X key to swap those colors so that the foreground color is black. And now, reduce the size of my cursor a little bit by pressing the left bracket key and it'll paint up the left edge of the S in sorry and down the right edge of the lowercase U at the end of the pronoun you. And then I'll go ahead and paint along the left side of the C in cheaters and I'll paint along the right side of the D as in haunted. And that's it. Now I'll just press the M key to switch back to my rectangular marquis tool and I'll press Control + D or Command + D on the Mac to deselect the image. And now I'll press Shift + F in order to switch to the full screen mode. And I'm going to hover over here on the right-hand side of the screen to bring back my right-side panels. And I'll click on the Navigator icon and I'll take the zoom value up to, let's say, 40% like so. And if you're trying to pull this off, you have to make sure that you keep your cursor over the Navigator panel until you're done after which point you can move it in order to let those panels auto-hide once again. And that is how you create a creepy candy keeper here inside Photoshop, designed to protect your big bowl of candy when you're away from home on Halloween.

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