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Summary: Adding text and choosing an appropriate color is only a click away when you use Photoshop. Learn how to add text and select a font color from a Photoshop expert in this free computer software video.
Robert Segundo has been an artist since he could hold a pencil. In his 10 years in graphic design, he has worked on advertising projects with costs ranging in millions of dollars. He...read more
Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for photo editing today. It is a program that allows the user to be very hands on with images and manipulate the characteristics of the picture in whatever way they feel is suitable. It gives the user the ability to add specific features only available through the program to their images. Photoshop is also now being used to create images from scratch at a design level. The impact of this is that anyone with a computer is now able to design and create as they see fit. It is no longer reserved to the established and wealthy designers. In this free video series a Photoshop expert, Robert Segundo, will show you all you need to know for creating glass text in Photoshop. Robert will begin by showing you how to add text and change the font color. You'll then learn a few easy tips for creating and using the displacement maps in order to add more dimension to your font. Using layers and navigating the system is easy when you follow Robert's instructions. In the end you'll know all the steps for creating glass text using Photoshop computer software.
"All right, we're going to do a glass text effect here, so as we can see, I've got a picture up on my screen right here. It's a picture of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis so we're going to use this as our background piece. What I'm going to do is I'm going to type some text over this. I'm just going to type, let's see, say, we'll just type St. Louis. There we go. We're going to promote St. Louis as much as possible here. I used to live there; great city. So we're going to click right here and we're going to do is just go ahead and enlarge our text like so. I don't really like the color of our text here so let's change the color. Let's hit enter, let's hit d, here we go, and with our paint bucket tool you will actually come up here and select all this, and what we're going to do is we're going to paint it. Okay, there we go, we have to roster-ize our layer. There we go. We'll get it here and we'll paint this all up. All right, let's just hit, there we go. Let's just hit Alt delete or Alt backspace on your PC, and there we go and now we have dark text, so we're going to stop here, and we'll pick this up in the next part. "
eHow Article: Photoshop: Glass Text Color
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