From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Psychedelic effects using the Difference blend mode

Psychedelic effects using the Difference blend mode - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects

Start my 1-month free trial

Psychedelic effects using the Difference blend mode

- Here I'd like to show you a very simple, and very effective treatment where we are using the different blending modes to get this positive and negative effect, placing a letter against a background, and we see the letter defined by the pattern, but offset from the pattern. I'm not sure that's a good way of describing it, but you can see what I mean. This is the starting point, and I'd like to, first of all, just show you how I created the background. Of course, this will work with all sorts of different backgrounds, but my background was created with a combination of filters, starting with a half-tone pattern, and then I applied a wave to that half-tone pattern, and then, using the lens correction filter, I have rotated that wave so that we have this pattern, and I now want to work this pattern into my type object. So I'll click on the layer above to turn on my type. I need to move my type layer beneath my pattern layer, and then select the pattern layer, and change its blending…

Contents