From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Adding lines of brilliant gold type - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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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The marquee tools6m 31s
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The single-pixel tools (plus tool tricks)6m 48s
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Turning a destructive edit into a layer5m 34s
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Making shapes of specific sizes7m 7s
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The lasso tools5m 49s
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Working with the Magnetic Lasso tool7m 19s
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The Magic Wand and the Tolerance value6m 55s
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Contiguous and Anti-aliased selections6m 58s
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Making a good selection with the Magic Wand6m 34s
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Selecting and replacing a background6m 55s
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Resolving edges with layer effects7m 52s
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Adding lines of brilliant gold type7m 28s
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The seven selection soldiers52s
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