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Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects (2018)

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Overview

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.

Expand your creative mindset with type. In this installment of Photoshop for Designers, instructor Nigel French shows how to create a range of beautiful type treatments using efficient, nondestructive techniques. Nigel describes how to combine letters and imagery and how to illustrate ideas with type, often with just a few tweaks to the letterforms themselves. He also shares techniques for creating damaged and distressed type; adding light and smoke effects to your type; entwining letters with a vine; fashioning portraits and maps comprised entirely of type; creating nostalgic type treatments; and much more.

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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