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Adding lines of brilliant gold type

Adding lines of brilliant gold type - Photoshop Tutorial

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Adding lines of brilliant gold type

In this final exercise of the chapter, I'm going to show you how to create these layers of gold type. This has nothing whatsoever to do with masking, but everything to do with compositing because we're ultimately rendering the type using a combination of layer effects. If you're working along with me you'll need to have two files open; one of them is called Compositing effects.psd which represents our progress so far and the other is called Text for frog.psd. And notice that I have some warped text layers going on here, the bottom text has a little bit of a Drop Shadow, nothing special going on, but I did want to show you how I achieve the warped text. So I've left this central text, The Frog Wizard unwarped. Here is what I want you to do. Go ahead and click on that layer there inside the Layers panel and then go ahead and click on the Text tool here in the toolbox, which you can get by pressing the T key. Go up to the Options bar and note that Warp icon. I want you to go ahead and…

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