From the course: Pixel Playground
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Placing lettering on plastic
- What we're going to do this week is we're going to look at this cover, this cover right here which I did for a book quite some time ago, and what we're going to do is come in close on this particular lettering right there. It looks like it's a lettering on a piece of lucite or plastic, and it's just put onto the marquee. That's what we're going to create today. So I'm going to create a new file here, and we'll make it, let's say, 1200 by 800, on height. That would be good. Click OK, and there's our file. Then I want to go to full screen, here, and what I'm going to do is, right off the bat, I'm going to throw some color into the background. So what I'm going to do is get the colors that I want the face of my marquee to have. So I'm going to go into my tones, here, and let's pick a nice kind of a yellowish tone like that for the foreground. For the background, we'll pick a same shade of that particular color, but we'll go in and pick up something a little bit more of a a little…
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