From the course: Pixel Playground

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Type effects: Marquee letters

Type effects: Marquee letters

From the course: Pixel Playground

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Type effects: Marquee letters

- [Voiceover] This week I'm gonna do an oldie, something I did a long time ago, but I've never done it on Pixel Playground. And what it is is just kind of the letters that you see on a marquee, on a theater marquee, that's what I'm gonna create. So right here is our background. What I'm gonna do in there is create a nice tone for the background of our little marquee. So I'm gonna get kind of a light tone like that, and a slightly darker gray, just slightly darker like that, and I'm gonna throw a nice little radial gradient right here in the middle of our background. There we go, just like that. So now on a new layer, I'm gonna create a couple little strips. These are little strips that hold the letters in place. So I'm gonna go right across here like that, and let's get a darker gray, say about like that, and we'll just go ahead and throw that right into that little area right there. And we're gonna duplicate this guy straight down, and again down here, like that. Okay, so let's just…

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