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Stretching a background element - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Stretching a background element
I've saved my progress as the Formatted logo.psd. In this exercise we're going to fill out this transparent area above the original photograph. So here I am coming up with this composition on the fly, let's say, and I have a little bit of headroom up here above the model, but I don't have nearly enough. I've got to have room for the full logo, and it's okay if the model's head cuts into the logo a little bit. That actually demonstrates that we're comfortable with our logo and that everybody recognizes our magazine, and so on. However, if we cut away too much of the logo, it becomes entirely illegible and nobody knows what we're talking about. So right about where we are is good. We'll just have a little bit of cut, going slightly into the O, well into the U, although that will still be recognizable, and we'll have the model cutting through the swash like crazy, but that's just a logo element. That's not a legibility element, so that's fine. But in order to get the composition right, I…
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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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