Photoshop Marquis Tool Tutorial

Video Transcript

"Adobe Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc., and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Ok. So, in this tutorial, I'm going to be talking about the marquis tool in Photoshop. Now, the marquis tool is way up here on the top of your palette. And, as you can see, if I zoom in, it says, "Regular Marquis Tool (M)." So, the shortcut for that is "M." And, as you can see, I clicked "M" and it highlighted it for me. Now, you can hold onto "Shift," click "M," and you can toggle through them. So, there's a circle, there's a square, and it's kind of a easy thing to do. Or, you can just come over to here and click, and you can see that there's a "Single Row Marquis" and a "Single Column Marquis." I think today we can work with the "Single Row Marquis." What I'm going to do is-and actually, I don't want the single row, I'm sorry. So, say, for instance, you have something like this. You can just Command or Control-D, and it goes away. Sometimes you get those weird lines, and you don't know how to get rid of them. So, if you deselect, or you can go up here to the Select, and hit "Deselect," it'll go away. So, let's not work with that one. I want to work with the rectangular marquis. So, basically, what I want to do is, I want to create like a line behind my text, just to make it pop out just a little bit more. What I'm going to do is, I'm going to click and drag a small, thin line right behind my-right on top of my text, right there, as you can see. And now we got ourselves a sample. And, say, if I wanted to fill that with black, I would obviously have to change my color-my foreground color to black. All you have to do to switch to the color that's on the bottom is you hit the "X" key. As you can see, I hit "X" and the black came up. So now I want to pick my paint bucket, and, what I want to do is, just fill. See, as you can see, I want to fill. But there's-now there's a little circle, something telling me not to go-I can't do it. It's going to give me a-basically, you know, it's going to give me an error. I hit "Ok." To get rid of this error, what you have to do is go down to this thing where my thing is. It's called "Create a New Layer." And so, what you do is click. And it created us a new layer right on top of the text layer. So, what you want to do is double-click and rename this "Line Behind Text." And we got ourselves a way for us to actually fill that with black. As you can see, it filled it with black, but it's-now it's in front of our text. So what we want to do is we want to grab this and drop the layer behind-underneath the text layer. As you can see, it went from the bottom to the top. Now, we have the problem of these lines. And, like I said earlier, all you have to do is Command or Control-D and the lines will go away. So, now we got ourselves a little line that is behind our text, which looks kind of cool. But, in my opinion, it needs to be dropped down just a little bit, just like that. And also, the opacity needs to be dropped. So, if we go over here to our layers palette, the "Line Behind Text" little section needs to be highlighted in blue, and all we do is drop our opacity by clicking on the word and dragging. So now, we got ourselves a little line right behind our text, just to make it pop out just a little bit more. And it's something that looks nice on mastheads or whatever you're-whatever kind of logo or letter heading you're trying to do. It's just a neat little thing you can do. And this is just a way I'm going to show how to use the marquis tool. And that is the basics of the marquis tool. Thanks."