From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
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Text that inverts everything behind it - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Text that inverts everything behind it
I've saved my progress as Evil middle manager.psd. In this exercise, I am going to share with you a little treat that is essentially unrelated to Smart Objects, except that it happens to work with Smart Objects as well as any other layers inside the program. What we are going to do is we are going to create a layer of live editable text that inverts everything below it. That text is here at the top of the Layers panel. I'll go ahead and turn it on and you can see that it's a layer of white text that we could edit as much as we like. Now, that's very important it has to be white text to start with. Now, where there is a pixel-based layer, we could employ it as a layer mask for an invert adjustment layer, a layer of inversion that is to say. But you can't fill text with an adjustment layer; that's not possible. So if we want our text to remain editable as of course we do because we might want to change the text or the font or any of the formatting attributes then we need to work with…
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Smart Objects = protective containers1m 35s
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Placing an Illustrator graphic6m 29s
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Vector copy and paste options6m 56s
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Applying Puppet Warp to vectors8m 9s
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"Gluing" vector art for Puppet Warp5m 50s
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Warping art onto the surface of an image8m 7s
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Blending a Smart Object4m 30s
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Blurring and blending a Smart Object6m 8s
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Making changes in Illustrator5m 57s
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Creating "true clones"7m 18s
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Double-flipping text4m 44s
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Applying effects to multiple layers3m 24s
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Updating true clones in one operation7m 36s
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Editing JPEGs as Camera Raw objects5m 49s
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Creating a double-exposure effect7m 15s
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Masking and shading transitions7m 47s
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Applying and repeating Camera Raw edits6m 9s
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Copying vs. cloning a Smart Object5m 18s
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Flipping a Smart Object and its mask3m 42s
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Adjusting multiple Camera Raw clones3m 53s
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Text that inverts everything behind it5m 34s
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