Using Text Effects in Photoshop

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Gary for Expert Village. Let's add some effects to our text to make it stand out a little bit more. So we go to our layers menu, and click on layer style. And once layer style is selected, we have a lot of options here of how to change the properties of the layer, and I'm just going to choose one so the menu opens up. Let's choose drop shadow. Now, keep in mind that the text is going to be affected according to which layer was chosen on the layers window. So right now, the layer that is highlighted, is the address layer that I created, the sample address. So that is what's going to be affected now. And then I can go ahead and click on the other layer, and then I would have a--be able to manipulate the text of the--the larger text of--which says wedding photo. I would go back up to layer, and click on layer style, and I'll open up that window and I'll just use that--the larger font so we can go ahead and be clearer to see the effects once we make them. So here is our layer style window, and we have a lot of different options over here on the left-hand side. We can see that we can apply drop shadow, inner shadow, inner glow, there is a lot to talk about on each of these effects, but if you just go ahead and play around with them, you can really get the desired effect that you want. So right now, what I am going to do, is I am going to create a--let's say we'll create an outer glow, and we see that the text actually kind of shines a little bit in the forefront. We still have our drop shadow, the gray in the background, so I can take that out so I just have the wedding photo, the glow around it. And then I can go ahead and choose a, let's say an outline for it, which is a little bit--a little bit too loud right now. I can change those colors by going--highlighting the tab, and then going into the color, double-clicking it and then opening up my color-picker window, and I can choose a different color if I want to create a different color outline, let's say a blue-ish outline, and I hit "ok". So I see that the outline changed to blue. So there's a whole bunch of things here that we can do to manipulate our text, and for our sample I'll just hit "ok", and now we have a--our image and the text, and basically the tools to really create something, a very, very nice business card. Putting a little bit more time in, you can work with the text a little bit more, and the image a little bit more, but you can get--you can really have something really nice. Get it printed with a nice glossy print, and professional business card that will really speak for itself."