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Creating metallic type

Creating metallic type - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating metallic type

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- [Instructor] Okay, let's see how we can create this metallic, specifically chrome, effect. This is the finished version, and here is my starting state. Now, the first point I want to make it that your choice of type is really going to play a big part in this, and my type started out looking like this. You can see that it's missing the underline, it's missing the C connecting with the H, and it's missing the O connecting with the M. The typeface I'm using is Voltage, which is available on Typekit. Voltage has a number of stylistic alternates, one of which is a C that connects with the following character, and another of which is this underline. These are all accessible through the Glyphs Panel. What it doesn't have is an O that connects with the following character, so to create that I actually made a copy of the M and I flipped that copy through 180 degrees, and I just used this connecting spur right here to join it with the O that precedes it, so that's the first point, take some…

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