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Drawing a custom shape layer - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Drawing a custom shape layer
I've saved my progress as Gratuitous effects.psd, so-called because I may have gone a little bit overboard where the layer effects are concerned, but I like the way the result looks. Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and zoom out a little bit here, and in this exercise, we're going to talk about that I that we saw a moment ago. I'm going to go ahead and collapse my fx list associated with 365 here inside the Layers panel, scroll down and turn on that info layer right there, and we have what is ultimately a scalable vector-based shape layer here inside of Photoshop, so I'm going to click on that layer to make it active. And then just so I could show you how very scalable it is, because check this out: if I zoom in on it, at 100%, it looks really great, but if I zoom in past to 100%, this goes for my vector-based shape layers and live editable text inside of Photoshop. Notice at 200% I'm starting to see bigger pixels, and I'll just keep zooming in, let's say to 500% right here, and you can…
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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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