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Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects

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Learn how to create striking, sophisticated type treatments in Photoshop. Explore a range of techniques that can help you efficiently illustrate your ideas with type in Photoshop.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Create compelling type effects in Photoshop
1. Simple Type Effects
  • Illustrate a concept
  • Modify letterforms
  • Create an interlocking effect
  • Create a text sandwich
  • Type as an image
  • Putting a picture inside and outside of an image
  • Warping an inline pattern
  • Creating metallic type
  • Word in word
2. Damaged and Distressed Type
  • Sliced text
  • Double masking
  • Shattered text
  • Offset text
  • Water droplets
  • Displacement slicing
  • Torn or ripped text
  • Rain damaged type
3. Real-World Type Effects
  • Displacing text on a waving flag
  • Setting your type on fire
  • Painting type with custom brushes
  • Adding light effects to your type
  • Neon
  • Smokey text
  • Entwined type
  • Free-form warped type
  • Working with 3D type
4. Print-Inspired Type Effects
  • Transparency and texture
  • Charcoal
  • Wood type effect
  • Decorative drop cap: Pattern overlay
  • Decorative drop cap: Custom extruded shadow
  • Decorative drop cap: Adding decoration
  • Fully justified type
  • Misregistered text
  • Halftone text
  • Letterpress effect
  • Type and transparency
5. Type and Pattern
  • Psychedelic effects using the Difference blend mode
  • Pattern effects with the Offset filter
  • Combining the Offset filter with layer masking
  • Patterned 3D type
  • Type patterns with symmetry fill
  • Texture from type
6. Type Portraits
  • Simple type portrait
  • Shaded type portrait
  • Environmental type portrait
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Nigel French

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