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Type effects: Lead type

Type effects: Lead type

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Type effects: Lead type

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- [Voiceover] This week, we're gonna take the word "type", made out of different fonts here, and turn it into old-fashioned lead type, the kind they used to use to create it on a Linotype machine to use it the old-fashioned, printing way. So here's what we're gonna do. I've created the letters. Each one has its own font. You can see it, each letter is here. And I've chosen any font that I had stored. You can choose whatever font you want. And I made them different sizes, so that they look very different. The color right now is just a gray, but it doesn't matter 'cause there's gonna be some stuff added to these. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna select all four letters, right there. And I'm gonna come over here and say, in the layer, rasterize the type. And there you see that they all became type. I'm gonna come over here and say merge those layers. So they became one single piece right there. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to get my rectangle tool here and I'm gonna draw a…

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