Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video Making text in Photoshop, part of Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced.
over the course of this chapter, we are going to assemble a single project.…We are going take a couple of files that are found inside of the 20_text_shapes…folder, and we'll start with this guy, Base layers.psd.…That represents the base elements that we'll be building up.…And we will ultimately craft this final document called the pout magazine.psd,…and my intention here is that we are seeing all the best stuff that Photoshop…has to offer, where text and shapes are concerned.…
So we have a couple of very interesting shape layers going on.…We also have all varieties of Text at our disposal;…here we've got point text;…that is text on the single line emanating from a specific point.…We'll see what that looks like.…We've got areas text inside of a rectangle text block.…We've got text inside of the custom shape;…we've got text on a path as witnessed by September 2026.…We have all sorts of layer affects going on, most notably, some drop shadows,…but more than that as well.…And then we even have text and shapes inside of a pixel-based mask.…
Author
Deke McClelland
Updated
8/31/2010Released
8/13/2010Recommended prerequisite: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals.
- Using blend modes, adjustment layers, and layer styles
- Organizing a layered composition so it is fluid and editable
- Creating and editing type in Photoshop
- Using blur effectively
- Using adjustment layers to add color
- Combining layers into a clipping mask
- Working with Camera Raw
Skill Level Intermediate
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Q: The instructions for installing the dekeKeys don't work on my computer (which is running Mac OS X Lion). Is there an update to these?
A: The dekeKeys distributed with this course will still work for Lion. You just need to add them to a slightly different folder than in previous versions of OS X.
Open a new Finder window and choose Go > Go to Folder. Type the following file path exactly as written below. Copying and pasting may result in an error.
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS5/Presets/Keyboard Shortcuts
Move and/or copy/paste the dekeKeys to this folder and follow the rest of the instructions as outlined in the video, "Installing the dekeKeys keyboard shortcuts."
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 57s
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Remapping OS shortcuts7m 37s
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The color settings explained6m 54s
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13. What Photoshop Can Do, Pt. 2: The Eyes
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The mission-critical eyes2m 43s
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Sharpening details to match4m 34s
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Masking eyes9m 22s
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Shading with layer effects8m 10s
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Refining layer masks5m 43s
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14. Levels and Curves
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How the Auto commands work5m 22s
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Opening up the shadows3m 40s
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Previewing clipped pixels4m 51s
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Curves dialog box tricks7m 16s
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Filling in the highlights5m 42s
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15. Sharpening Details
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The art of enhancing edges1m 26s
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How sharpening works6m 2s
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Introducing Unsharp Mask6m 19s
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Radius and Threshold6m 24s
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Gauging the ideal settings8m 59s
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Using the Remove settings9m 30s
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Accounting for camera shake6m 18s
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Sharpening with High Pass9m 22s
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16. Noise and Texture
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Edge's evil twin: noise1m 12s
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Color vs. luminance noise7m 21s
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Reducing color noise7m 45s
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Reducing luminance noise4m 59s
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The Dust & Scratches filter4m 56s
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Adjusting shadow saturation5m 52s
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Masking a layer of Lens Blur7m 34s
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Building up a noise pattern6m 40s
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Converting noise to texture4m 24s
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Bleeding colors into paper6m 16s
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17. Shadows, Highlights, and Contours
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We are the stuff of light1m 23s
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Shadows/Highlights in depth7m 59s
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Grouping and masking layers5m 40s
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Smoothing with High Pass5m 44s
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18. Black & White and Colorize
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Color becomes monochrome1m 31s
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Introducing the Channel Mixer10m 23s
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Aggressive channel mixing9m 42s
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Proofing CMYK colors7m 49s
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The default grayscale recipe8m 55s
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Introducing the Gradient Map7m 10s
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Loading custom gradients4m 32s
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Editing gradient color stops9m 58s
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19. Color Range and Refine Edge
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Hand-brushing a selection5m 39s
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The Adjust Edge values4m 11s
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Four micro mask adjustments8m 32s
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20. Text and Shape Layers
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Making text in Photoshop6m 18s
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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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Point text vs. area text8m 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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Drawing with shape outlines6m 18s
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Correcting spacing problems7m 44s
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Saving large poster art9m 32s
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21. Layer Effects and Styles
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What filters ought to be1m 25s
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Layer effects vs. filters6m 14s
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Creating blurry shadow type5m 30s
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Introducing Bevel and Emboss7m 35s
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Exploiting global light8m 11s
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Gloss and edge contour5m 8s
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Using shadows as highlights7m 39s
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Working with random effects6m 55s
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Masking blacks from whites4m 37s
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Applying liquid styles4m 36s
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Applying a displacement map7m 37s
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22. Transform, Distort, and Warp
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Scale, rotate, and constrain6m 30s
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Applying a slant (aka skew)3m 37s
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Applying a custom warp7m 24s
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23. Puppet Warp and Liquify
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Distorting reality1m 33s
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Adjusting the pin depth5m 18s
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Applying Puppet Warp to type6m 30s
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Warping single characters6m 24s
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Editing puppet-warped text8m 24s
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Saving and loading a mesh5m 59s
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Push, Mirror, and Turbulence11m 49s
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Lifting and slimming details8m 22s
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24. Adobe Camera Raw
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Introducing Camera Raw7m 40s
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Adjusting the Exposure value6m 24s
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Recovery and Fill Light6m 57s
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Camera Raw wrap-up8m 38s
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Conclusion
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Until next time55s
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