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Combining layer effects and type - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Combining layer effects and type
I've saved my progress as Figure 365 in Red.psd, and in this exercise we're going to take these large red numbers, and we're going to style them using a series of layer effects that I've created for you in advance. Now, we'll look at layer effects in detail in a future chapter, but for now, I'll give you a sense of how they work, and they are uniquely suited to Photoshop. You'll find layer effects such as Drop Shadows and so forth inside the other Creative Suite applications, but none of them hold a candle to the vast array of options that are provided to you inside of Photoshop. Now, you may recall ultimately we want 365 to look like this; this is the final Pout magazine.psd file. We've got shadows and highlights and rounded contours associated with these letters, we've got outlines, we've got these kind of patterns running through the letters; all of that stuff is thanks to layer effects. All right, so I'll switch back to the image in progress, and I'll press Ctrl+Semicolon…
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Photoshop's vector exceptions1m 11s
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Making text in Photoshop6m 18s
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Creating and editing a text layer6m 56s
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Font and type style7m 35s
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Type size and color7m 52s
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Combining layer effects and type10m 57s
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Drawing a custom shape layer8m 34s
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Side bearing, kerning, and tracking10m 36s
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Point text vs. area text8m 26s
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Selecting and formatting a paragraph5m 19s
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Copying and pasting unformatted text7m 45s
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Creating text inside a custom path6m 26s
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Creating text along a path8m 13s
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Adjusting baseline shift6m 16s
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Drawing a fading arrowhead7m 29s
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Fading a shadow with a layer5m 32s
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Logo creation and Fill Opacity7m 44s
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Stretching a background element6m 9s
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Drawing with shape outlines6m 18s
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Combining vector-based shapes6m 42s
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Masking vector-based shape layers6m 7s
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Correcting spacing problems7m 44s
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Drawing the ultimate specular sparkle8m 45s
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Preparing text for commercial output5m 9s
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Saving a high-resolution PDF file7m 11s
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Inspecting the final PDF document7m 8s
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Saving large poster art9m 32s
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