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Charcoal

Charcoal - Photoshop Tutorial

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Charcoal

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- [Instructor] Here's a technique for creating charcoal text. Here's my starting point. The first thing I want to do is create a work path from my type. I'll right click on the Type Layer and come down to Create Work Path. And I'll come to my Paths Panel, actually before I do that, I'm going to hide my Type Layer and create a new empty layer for my brush stroke. I'll now come to my paths, I'll choose a brush, in this case, I'm using from the Dry Media Brushes Group, KYLE Ultimate Charcoal Pencil and I have a size of 250 pixels, so with that brush chosen, and the right foreground color chosen, I'll now right click and choose Stroke Path. Make sure that you have Brush as the tool and Simulate Pressure checked. There's the result that we get and you can see that it's drawing around the whole of the path, so the interior of the letter is not affected. Admittedly we could use a larger brush size to do that but what if only want to draw around a single stroke rather than an enclosed path…

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