Photoshop User - USA (2019-10)

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Step Six: Click on the Foreground color

swatch near the bottom of the Toolbar, and

select an orange color in the Color Picker (the

exact color doesn’t matter here). Now click

the Add to Swatches button in the Color

Picker, give your swatch a name (I went with

“Orange 1”), and click OK to add the first color

to the Swatches panel. Don’t close the Color

Picker yet.

Step Seven: Select another shade of orange,

click the Add to Swatches button again, name

it (I’m going with “Orange 2,” “Orange 3,”

etc.), and click OK. Do this until you have five

shades of orange. Now do the same to add five

shades of yellow to the Swatches panel for a

total of ten colors. You can save this palette if

you want, but for now let’s get creative with

our new swatches.

Step Eight: Before we begin this process, we

need to Create a New Layer above the Gradient

Fill layer on which to paint.

Step Nine: We’re going to use different

brushes, settings, and colors on several differ-

ent layers to loosely sketch around our letters

in HALLOWEEN, so let’s select a brush for our

first layer. Switch to the Brush tool (B), open

the Brushes panel (Window>Brushes), and

select the Kyle Ultimate Charcoal Pencil from

the Dry Media Brush set. In the Brush Settings

panel (Window>Brush Settings), set the size to

175 px, Angle to 0°, Roundness to 100%, Spac-

ing to 17%, and turn off Smoothing on the left

side of the panel. Now select one of your 10

colors from the Swatches panel.

Step 10: Paint loosely around each letter. Don’t

worry about precision; this is purely up to your

own style, but I recommend a scruffy look.

Step Seven

Step Eight