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Creating an antique pub sign using Photoshop

Creating an antique pub sign using Photoshop

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Creating an antique pub sign using Photoshop

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This week what we're going to do is create a Antique Pub sign. Some rusty letters and old wood, and it's just an exercise in filters basically, and some type controls. Now, keep in mind that it's not what I'm doing but how I'm doing it because some of these techniques can be applied to other situations to solve problems you might be faced with. So let's start with creating our basic type, I'm going to get my Text tool here and we'll pick something that's fairly common and simple. Let's just take good old times and I'll use bold and set at 250 points, let's see how big that's going to be. Let's make it 200 points, alright? And right here in the center, it's centered. We're going to go in here and type in Rusty Nail Pub. There we go, we got our basic letters right there, alright. So now, those are going to work, that's going to work fine. However, it's not the way I want it to look. I want it to have a kind of a stylized kind of a look. So what we're going to do now is, I'm going to go…

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