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Drawing a fading arrowhead - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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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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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