Learn how to create striking, sophisticated type treatments in Photoshop. Explore a range of techniques that can help you efficiently illustrate your ideas with type in Photoshop.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Create compelling type effects in Photoshop
- Illustrate a concept
- Modify letterforms
- Create an interlocking effect
- Create a text sandwich
- Type as an image
- Putting a picture inside and outside of an image
- Warping an inline pattern
- Creating metallic type
- Word in word
- Sliced text
- Double masking
- Shattered text
- Offset text
- Water droplets
- Displacement slicing
- Torn or ripped text
- Rain damaged type
- Displacing text on a waving flag
- Setting your type on fire
- Painting type with custom brushes
- Adding light effects to your type
- Neon
- Smokey text
- Entwined type
- Free-form warped type
- Working with 3D type
- Transparency and texture
- Charcoal
- Wood type effect
- Decorative drop cap: Pattern overlay
- Decorative drop cap: Custom extruded shadow
- Decorative drop cap: Adding decoration
- Fully justified type
- Misregistered text
- Halftone text
- Letterpress effect
- Type and transparency
- Psychedelic effects using the Difference blend mode
- Pattern effects with the Offset filter
- Combining the Offset filter with layer masking
- Patterned 3D type
- Type patterns with symmetry fill
- Texture from type
- Simple type portrait
- Shaded type portrait
- Environmental type portrait
- Next steps
Taught by
Nigel French
