Tutorial Photoshop
Text Effect and Manipulation
1. Grunge Rubber Stamp
2. Gel/Bubble Text Effect
3. Bling Bling text
4. Fake text wrap
5. Text as a Container
6. Place an Image in Text
7. Soften Image Edge
8. Old Image Effect
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We now need to just erase the edges of our type by clicking on our type layer and erasing around
the type itself.
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Photoshop Tutorials: Choose the Type tool from the Tools palette.
You can also press T on your keyboard to quickly select it. Then, with the Type tool selected, go
up to the Options Bar at the top of the screen and click on the text color swatch:
Photoshop Tutorials: With the Type tool selected, click on the text color swatch in the Options
Bar.
This will bring up Photoshop's Color Picker. Choose a color for the text. I'm going to choose a
light blue for mine:
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Photoshop Tutorials: Choose a color for your text with Photoshop's Color Picker.
Click OK once you've chosen a color to exit out of the Color Picker.
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Photoshop Tutorials: Select "Drop Shadow" from the list of Layer Styles.
This brings up Photoshop's Layer Style dialog box set to the Drop Shadow options in the middle
column:
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Photoshop Tutorials: Click on the Drop Shadow's color swatch to choose a color.
This will bring up the Color Picker. Rather than choosing a color in the Color Picker, hover your
mouse over the text, which will turn your mouse cursor into the Eyedropper, and click on the
text to sample its color:
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Photoshop Tutorials: Select a different shade of the sampled color in the Color Picker to use for
the drop shadow.
Click OK to exit out of the Color Picker, and your drop shadow will appear in the color you
selected:
Photoshop Tutorials: The drop shadow applied to the text using the color chosen in the Color
Picker.
Don't click OK in the Layer Style dialog box yet. We've only just begun.
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Photoshop Tutorials: Click directly on the words "Inner Shadow" below "Drop Shadow" in the
menu on the left of the Layer Style dialog box.
The first thing we're going to do here is select a color to use for the Inner Shadow, just as we did
for the Drop Shadow. Click on the Inner Shadow color swatch:
Photoshop Tutorials: Click on the Inner Style color swatch to choose a color.
This will bring up Photoshop's Color Picker. Just as we did with the Drop Shadow, rather than
selecting a color directly in the Color Picker, move your mouse over the text and click on it to
sample the text color:
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Photoshop Tutorials: Click anywhere on the text once again to sample the color.
Then select a darker shade of the color in the Color Picker to use for the Inner Shadow:
Photoshop Tutorials: Select a different shade of the sampled color in the Color Picker to use for
the inner shadow.
Click OK to exit out of the Color Picker once again. The inner shadow will appear in the color
you selected:
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Photoshop Tutorials: The Inner Shadow is now applied to the text using the color selected.
I'm going to increase the size of my Inner Shadow effect by clicking on the Size slider and
dragging it to the right. I'll increase mine to about 16 pixels:
Photoshop Tutorials: Increase the size of the Inner Shadow effect by dragging the "Size" slider to
the right.
Here's the result after increasing the Inner Shadow size:
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Photoshop Tutorials: The effect so far after increasing the Inner Shadow size to 16 pixels.
Photoshop Tutorials: Click directly on the words "Outer Glow" in the menu on the left of the
Layer Style dialog box.
Once again, the first thing we're going to do is select a color for our Outer Glow, the same way
we've done it for the Drop Shadow and Inner Glow. First, click on the Outer Glow color swatch:
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Photoshop Tutorials: Click on the Outer Glow color swatch to choose a color.
This brings up the Color Picker. Click directly on the text once again to sample the color. Then
go back to the Color Picker, but this time, rather than choosing a darker shade of the color,
choose a lighter shade:
Photoshop Tutorials: Choose a lighter shade of the text color this time to use for the Outer Glow
effect.
Click OK to exit out of the Color Picker.
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Photoshop Tutorials: Make the changes circled in red above to the Outer Glow options.
Here's my result after making the changes:
Photoshop Tutorials: The effect so far after applying the "Outer Glow" layer style.
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Photoshop Tutorials: Click directly on the words "Inner Glow" in the menu on the left of the
Layer Style dialog box.
What are we going to do first? Yep, we're going to pick a color to use for the Inner Glow. Go
ahead and click on the Inner Glow color swatch:
Photoshop Tutorials: Click on the Inner Glow color swatch to choose a color.
This brings up the Color Picker. This time, rather than clicking on the text color itself and then
selecting a darker shade in the Color Picker, just click on one of the darker areas in the text. We'll
use that color for the Inner Glow:
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Photoshop Tutorials: Click on a darker color in the text to sample it and use it for the Inner Glow
effect.
Click OK in the Color Picker to exit out of it once you've sampled your color.
We have our darker color selected, but by default, the blend mode for the Inner Shadow is set to
"Screen", which means we're not going to see our darker color. Basically, we need to change the
effect from an inner "glow" to an inner "shadow", and for that, all we need to do is change the
blend mode from "Screen" to Multiply:
Photoshop Tutorials: Click on the down-pointing arrow and change the blend mode for the Inner
Glow effect to "Multiply".
I'm going to change a few other options here as well for the Inner Glow. First, I'm going to lower
the Opacity value to around 50%. Then, in the "Elements" section in the middle, I'm going to
raise the Choke value to about 10% and the Size value to 13 pixels:
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Photoshop Tutorials: Change the options circled in red above for the Inner Glow.
Again, feel free to experiment with those values on your own.
Here's my effect so far with the Inner Glow applied:
Photoshop Tutorials: The effect after applying the Inner Glow layer style.
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Photoshop Tutorials: Click directly on the words "Bevel and Emboss" in the menu on the left of
the Layer Style dialog box.
This time there's no colors to choose. Instead, there's a few options that need to be changed. I
know I've already said it a few times, but you don't need to use these specific settings for your
effect. In fact, you'll probably need to play around with them a little if you're using a different
font type or size. However, having said that, here's the settings I've used in the Bevel and Emboss
options:
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Photoshop Tutorials: Click directly on the word "Contour" in the left menu.
In the Contour options, click on the down-pointing arrow to the right of the Contour preview
thumbnail, then click on the Half Round option to select it (it's the first one on the left, bottom
row):
Photoshop Tutorials: Click the down-pointing arrow and select the "Half Round" contour, bottom
row, far left.
Here's my text after applying the Bevel and Emboss filter:
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Photoshop Tutorials: The effect after applying the "Bevel and Emboss" style.
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Now apply the following layer styles to the text (Layer Layer style): Bevel and Emboss,
Gradient Overlay
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Now apply the following layer styles to this top (noise) layer.
Bevel and Emboss, Inner Shadow.
To add some shines to it, CREATE A NEW LAYER, select the brush tool, set to 3px hard
brush,and draw a X on the new layer, in WHITE, then, set your brush size to 27px SOFT EDGE
brush, and stamp a circle in the middle of the X.
See below.
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Now just get the eraser with a SOFT Edge brush, and erase out the the ends of the X (cross) to
make a fade effect. Now just duplicate that star and put it on your text.
This one is simply a different gradient (step 2) applied to the original text layer.
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With the Rectangle Tool selected, click on the "Paths" icon up in the Options Bar.
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A small minus sign ("-") in the bottom right corner of the cursor indicates that you currently have
the "Subtract from path area" option selected.
You can also access the "Subtract" mode simply by holding down your Alt (Win) / Option key
before you start dragging out your path, which is a bit faster than selecting the option in the
Options Bar (you can release the Alt/Option key right after you begin dragging out your path).
I'll go ahead and drag out a path around the baseball. If I need to reposition my path as I'm
dragging, which I almost always need to do, I can hold down my Spacebar and move the path
around on the screen with my mouse to reposition it, then release the Spacebar and continue
dragging out the path. Here's the image with the second path around the baseball:
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Dragging an elliptical path around the baseball with the Ellipse Tool set to "Subtract" mode.
It looks like I have two separate paths in the image at this point - a rectangular one and an
elliptical one. But the only active path is the original rectangular one, which now isn't quite as
rectangular because, even though Photoshop isn't giving us any visual clues of what's really
happening, the elliptical path is now subtracting (or "cutting out", if you prefer) part of the
rectangular path around the baseball. To make it easier to see, I've filled in the remaining active
path area in the image below. This is the area where my text will appear. Notice how the
rectangular path now wraps nicely around the baseball, which means my text is also going to
wrap around it:
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The filled-in area represents the active path area after subtracting part of it with the Ellipse Tool
set to "Subtract".
Now that we have our path in place, let's add our text.
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The Type Tool icon now shows a dotted elliptical outline which tells me that I'm about to add my
text inside the path.
I already have some text saved to my clipboard which I copied from the end of the famous
baseball poem "Casey At The Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, which I thought would be fitting
for this image, so to add the text to my image, I'll simply click inside the path and then use the
keyboard shortcut Ctrl+V (Win) / Command+V (Mac ) to paste the text inside the path. As we
can see, not only does the text stay inside the path, it also wraps nicely around the baseball:
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Photoshop uses the active path to contain the text, causing the text to wrap around the baseball
on the left.
To accept the text and exit out of text editing mode, I'll click the checkmark up in the Options
Bar:
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5. Text As A Container
In this Photoshop Text Effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to use text as a container for
more text! Specifically, we'll fill a single letter with an entire paragraph of text so that the text
appears in the shape of the letter. Here's the effect we're going for:
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Photoshop Text Effects: Choose a size, resolution and background color for your new Photoshop
document.
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Photoshop Text Effects: Choose a font from the Options Bar, preferably one with thick letters.
Photoshop Text Effects: Resize the letter as needed with Photoshop's Free Transform command.
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Photoshop Text Effects: Hide the letter from view in the document by clicking on its visibility
icon in the Layers palette.
You can click back inside the empty box where the eyeball icon was displayed to make the layer
visible again.
With the text hidden, only the path we created a moment ago is now visible:
Photoshop Text Effects: The text is now hidden, revealing the path we created from the text.
Step 8: Click Inside The Path, But Don't Type Just Yet
Our path is now visible, and we're going to use it as a container for our text. We just need to add
the text! With the Type Tool still selected, move your mouse cursor anywhere inside the path.
You'll see the shape of your cursor change from an I-beam with a dotted square around it to an Ibeam with a dotted elliptical shape around it, indicating that if you click the mouse and start
typing, you'll be typing inside the path, which is exactly what we want. Go ahead and click
anywhere inside the path, but don't start typing just yet.
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Photoshop Text Effects: Change your font and font size in the Options Bar.
Photoshop Text Effects: Click on the Character and Paragraph palette toggle button in the
Options Bar to access Photoshop's Character and Paragraph palettes.
By default, Photoshop groups the Character and Paragraph palettes together in the same palette
group, both because they work as a team and to save screen space. If the Character palette is the
one showing, simply click on the Paragraph palette's name tab at the top of the palette group to
bring it to the forefront and send the Character palette to the background. With the Paragraph
palette selected, click the Justify All option in the upper right of the palette. This will make sure
that our text fills as much of the letter as possible:
Photoshop Text Effects: Click the "Justify All" option in the Paragraph palette.
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Photoshop Text Effects: Begin typing inside the letter. As you type, the text conforms to the
shape of the original letter.
Continue typing until your letter is filled with text.
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Photoshop Text Effects: Accept your text by clicking on the checkmark in the Options Bar.
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Photoshop Text Effects: The final result. The shape of the original letter is still visible thanks to
the text inside of it.
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Hold down "Ctrl" (Win) / "Command" (Mac) and click on the New Layer icon in the Layers
palette.
We now have a new blank layer named "Layer 2" sitting directly between the Background layer
and "Layer 1":
The Layers palette showing the new blank layer between the Background layer and "Layer 1".
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Select White for the Contents option at the top of the Fill command's dialog box.
Nothing will appear to have happened in the document window, since the image on "Layer 1" is
blocking "Layer 2" from view, but if we look at the layer preview thumbnail for "Layer 2" in the
Layers palette, we can see that sure enough, the layer is now filled with solid white:
The preview thumbnail for "Layer 2" shows that the layer is now filled with white.
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Setting the Foreground color to white sets the text color to white as well.
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Step 10: Resize and Reposition The Text With The Free Transform Command
You'll probably need to resize and reposition your text at this point, and we can do both of those
things using Photoshop's Free Transform command. Press Ctrl+T (Win) / Command+T (Mac)
on your keyboard to bring up the Free Transform box and handles around your text, then drag
any of the handles to resize the text. If you want to resize the text without distorting the look of
it, hold down your Shift key and drag any of the four corner handles. You can also resize the text
from its center by holding down the Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key as you drag. Finally, to move
the text, click anywhere inside the Free Transform box and drag your mouse to move the text
around inside the document window:
Use Photoshop's Free Transform command to resize and move the text.
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The type layer now appears between "Layer 1" and "Layer 2".
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The type layer now appears between "Layer 1" and "Layer 2".
The text will temporarily disappear inside the document window now that the image on "Layer
1" is blocking it from view.
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Select the type layer, then click on the Layer Styles icon.
Select Drop Shadow from the list of layer styles that appears:
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The Layer Style dialog box displaying the options for the Drop Shadow.
Click OK when you're done to apply the drop shadow an exit out of the Layer Style dialog box.
Here is my final "image in text" effect:
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2. Select the Rectangular Marquee tool. Create a square in the photo. Let enough room free for
the blur.
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3. Go to Select > Feather and use a setting of 9 pixels. Then click on OK.
4. Press ctrl+shift+I. Now hit the delete key on your keyboard after you select you background
color in your color palette. Your done:)
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Clicking on the "New Adjustment Layer" icon at the bottom of the Layers palette.
Then choose Hue/Saturation from the list of adjustment layers that appears:
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Select the "Colorize" option in the bottom right of the Hue/Saturation dialog box, then set the
"Hue" value to around 40.
Click OK when you're done to exit out of the dialog box. If we look in our Layers palette now,
we can see the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer that we've added above the Background layer
(the layer which contains our original image):
The Layers palette in Photoshop showing the newly added Hue/Saturation adjustment layer.
And if we look at our image in the document window, we can see that the original color has been
replaced with a sepia tone:
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The photo's original colors have been replaced with a sepia tone.
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The Layers palette showing our original two layers now merged onto a third layer above them.
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Fine-tune the glow effect by adjusting the opacity of the "Glow" layer.
If we look at my image again, the glow effect isn't quite as intense as it was before:
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