- Select the Radio-Free Space! layer. Press
Alt+ (or Option- ) to drop down to the
layer. Right now, the text treatment is almost
comically bad. Cyan letters, wide leading—how
much worse could it get? We’ll start by spicing
up the text with some layer styles, and then we’ll
warp the text for a classic pulp fiction look. - Turn on the layer styles. In the Layers panel,
click the ▼ to the right of the Radio-Free Space!
layer name to twirl open the layer and reveal a
list of three styles I applied in advance: Outer
Glow, Bevel and Emboss, and Stroke. Click in
front of the word Effects to display the three
styles. - Set the blend mode to Overlay. Select Over-
lay from the blend mode pop-up menu at the
top of the Layers panel. Or press the shortcut
Shift+Alt+O (Shift-Option-O). The result ap-
pears in Figure 11-56. - Click the warp icon in the options bar. The
type tool should still be active. Assuming that
it is, look to the right side of the options bar
for an icon featuring a skewed T above a tiny
path (highlighted in Figure 11-57). Click this
icon to bring up the Warp Text dialog box. - Apply the Arc Lower style. The Warp Text dialog box features
the following options:
- Select the shape inside which the text bends from the Style
menu. The icons provide hints as to what the effect will
look like. But if in doubt, choose an option and watch the
preview in the image window. - Change the angle of the warp by selecting the Horizontal
or Vertical radio button. Assuming Western-world text like
we’re working with here, Horizontal bends the baselines
and Vertical warps the individual letters.
Figure 11-56.Figure 11-57.Bending and Warping Type 413