From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Create an interlocking effect

Create an interlocking effect - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects

Start my 1-month free trial

Create an interlocking effect

“

- [Instructor] Here is how we can create a simple interlocking effect using type and a custom shape. Here's the starting state let me just explain the things I've done to this document, I've added a gradient to the type that gradient is clipped to the type and the arrow is a shape layer, a shape layer using a custom shape and to this shape I've added some effects and then I put that in a group and I've added some effects to the group and on top of everything I have added a layer of film grain. Now what we need to do is to create the interlocking effect, so I'll open up that group and I will come to the arrow layer, I need to add a layer mask to this. So I'm going to click on Add Layer Mask. Now I'm going to activate the selection of the type. So I will Command click on the type layer and we see that active selection. Now making sure that I'm on the layer mask of the arrow layer, I will press B to choose my brush tool and I'm working with a hard edge brush. I just kind of paint out the…

Contents