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Two ways to make gradient text

Two ways to make gradient text - Photoshop Tutorial

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Two ways to make gradient text

All right gang, I think I have managed to achieve a pretty good match between the angle of my text, at any rate, and the angle of the sign in the background, and I've saved my progress as Perspective text.psd. In this exercise, we are going to go ahead and blend these letters with the sign so that they appear to be genuinely superimposed. So here's what I am going to do. I will make sure that the, I (love) Automation shape layer is selected, then I will drop down to the fx icon, and we will start with an Inner Shadow, so that the characters appear to be carved out of the sign, and the default settings are actually not half bad. I am going to change out the color, however. So I am going to click on this color swatch, and I am going to change Hue value to 105 and by the way, this is just a Hue value I found inside the image by clicking with this Eyedropper inside one of the darker portions of the robot. Notice I just lifted 106, and then I rounded down to 105. All right and then I am…

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