Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One
Determine the angle of our shadow. The next trick is to add a cast shadow—that is, a shadow cast by the letters in the oppo- si ...
PeaRl Of WISDOm A couple of special benefits when transforming a text layer: The type remains editable, so you can add text or f ...
Skew the blurry type. Now let’s give the shadow some directional perspec- tive so it looks more realistic. Choose Edit→Transfor ...
Reveal the network logo. In the Layers panel, click the empty gray square to the left of the Logo group to display the icon and ...
Drawing and Editing Shapes Photoshop’s shape tools allow you to draw rectangles, ellipses, polygons, and an assortment of prefab ...
Convert the 2084 layer to shapes. Let’s say we want to simi- larly prevent the text 2084 from changing on another system. Right ...
Set the Polygon Options to Star. Our image is an election graphic, so naturally one feels compelled to wrap the compo- sition i ...
Carve a second star out of the first. Press the Alt key (Option key on the Mac) and draw another star from the same starting po ...
Scale, rotate, and move the duplicate star. At this point, I need you to make some precise adjustments: In the options bar, cli ...
PeaRl Of WISDOm This succession of duplicate, transform, and repeat (similar to what we saw in Lesson 5) is known as series dupl ...
Turn on the Stripes layer. Click the icon in front of the Stripes layer to display a sequence of red stripes. I created the top ...
eXtRa CReDIt If adding a layer mask to a vector shape doesn’t sound like a regular barrel of monkeys to you, skip to the “Bendin ...
Select the line tool. The next step is to draw a rule under the word ELECTION. The best tool for this job is the line tool. You ...
Draw a line under the word ELECTION. Because we want the rule to extend beyond the left edge of the canvas, it’s easiest to dra ...
Load all the custom shapes included with Photoshop. Photoshop ships with a large custom shape library, but only a few are loade ...
Switch to the Background layer. That takes care of all the shapes. My remaining concern with the design is that the word ELECTI ...
Hide the guidelines. Choose View→Show→Guides or press Ctrl+ (�- ). The final artwork appears in Figure 11-45. Remarkably, virt ...
Bending and Warping Type Back in Step 39 of the “Creating and Formatting Text” exercise (see page 393), we skewed some text back ...
Switch back to the Space radio.psd composition. Press the Esc key to exit the text-editing mode. Then click the title bar of th ...
Click the type tool in the toolbox. Or press the T key. As I mentioned, the horizontal type tool is the only text tool you’ll e ...
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