From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects

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Texture from type

Texture from type - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects

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Texture from type

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- [Instructor] In this composition I'm going to build texture with type through the application of a custom brush. If we come to the layers panel in the finished state we can see that I have a layer group on which I have these four separate layers overlapping each other and the blending mode of the layer is set to overlay. So if I now come to the starting state, we can see that we're missing one of those layers and that's what I'm going to do here to finish this composition. So I need to open up my original text layer group and here we see the original words and the one that we need is stress. I'm going to CMD+Click on the thumbnail of that type and then come to the edit menu and choose define brush preset. I can now hide that layer and press CMD or CTRL+D to drop that active selection. And I'll come to my brush settings. Let me just point out that we have here as a brush group all of the brushes but I just want to show you how one of them was created. So coming to the one that I just…

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