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Photoshop How-To: Create Stunning Type Effects
If you're bored with placing plain old text in Photoshop, get ready to be stimulated. By applying Photoshop's copious imaging techniques to type elements, you can create interesting, and unusual type effects. Here are three recipes to get you started.
Written by Roger Pring on May 20, 2003
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This story is taken from "Photoshop Type Effects Visual Encyclopedia" with the permission of its publisher, New Riders.
You may not think of Adobe Photoshop as a typographic program. In truth, fine typography is not its strong suit. But you can do some amazing things with type in Photoshop, thereby giving your text added punch -- and dimension, contortion, erosion, mummification, and so on.
Those are just a few of the effects you'll find in "Photoshop Type Effects Visual Encyclopedia," three chapters of which we've excerpted here. The book contains recipes for how to make ordinary letters into graphic elements.
In these excerpts learn how to use Photoshop to make text look like it's been written in the sky, outlined in neon, and stitched in leather. Better yet, take these techniques and experiment. You never know what you may come up with.
We've posted these excerpts as PDF files. To open them in your Web browser, click these links:
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Love it! nice to be able to read and print quick tutorials like these.
Printing is enabled!
We do apply minimal security to PDFs, but printing is indeed enabled. I just did a test print myself and it worked, so I'm not sure why you are having problems. Sorry I can't be more helpful!
Pamela Pfiffner, editor in chief