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Drawing a fading arrowhead

Drawing a fading arrowhead - Photoshop Tutorial

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Drawing a fading arrowhead

In honor of our text long a path September 2026, I have made my progress file Optimistic publication date.psd. In this exercise, we are going to begin to take on the logo at the top of the magazine cover. Notice the name Pout which is of course the title of the publication. It appears so tiny that I have to highlight it using this arrow, and this arrow is in fact a shape that I have drawn using a Shape tool. I am going to go ahead and zoom in on that shape right there. One of the reasons I drew the arrow was so that you could find the word Pout inside of your composition. The other reason was I want to show you how to create these kinds of things. So if you are creating a diagram inside of Photoshop, and you want to indicate motion, or you want to show people where something is or anything along those lines, I find that the sort of motion trail arrows are very useful, notice that there is a Drop Shadow associated with the arrow. There is some interaction between the arrow in his…

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