Photoshop for Designers – Type Effects (2018) Updated 11.02.2019
Release date:2018, November 30
Duration:02 h 51 m
Author:Nigel French
Skill level:Intermediate
Language:English
Exercise files:Yes
Expand your creative mindset with type. In this installment of Photoshop for Designers, instructor Nigel French shows how to create a range of beautiful type treatments using efficient, nondestructive techniques. Nigel describes how to combine letters and imagery and how to illustrate ideas with type, often with just a few tweaks to the letterforms themselves. He also shares techniques for creating damaged and distressed type; adding light and smoke effects to your type; entwining letters with a vine; fashioning portraits and maps comprised entirely of type; creating nostalgic type treatments; and much more.
Topics include:
Illustrating a concept
Modifying letterforms
Creating distressed text with a displacement map
Creating effects such as smoky or fiery type
Painting type with custom brushes
Creating print-inspired type effects
Working with multilayered type
Creating a type portrait
Creating nostalgic type treatments
00. Introduction
01 – Create compelling type effects in Photoshop
01. Simple Type Effects
02 – Illustrate a concept
03 – Modify letterforms
04 – Create an interlocking effect
05 – Create a text sandwich
06 – Type as an image
07 – Putting a picture inside and outside of an image
08 – Warping an inline pattern
09 – Creating metallic type
10 – Word in word
02. Damaged and Distressed Type
11 – Sliced text
12 – Double masking
13 – Shattered text
14 – Offset text
15 – Water droplets
16 – Displacement slicing
17 – Torn or ripped text
18 – Rain damaged type
03. Real-World Type Effects
19 – Displacing text on a waving flag
20 – Setting your type on fire
21 – Painting type with custom brushes
22 – Adding light effects to your type
23 – Neon
24 – Smokey text
25 – Entwined type
26 – Free-form warped type
27 – Working with 3D type
04. Print-Inspired Type Effects
28 – Transparency and texture
29 – Charcoal.en.srt
29 – Charcoal
30 – Wood type effect
31 – Decorative drop cap – Pattern overlay
32 – Decorative drop cap – Custom extruded shadow
33 – Decorative drop cap – Adding decoration
34 – Fully justified type
35 – Misregistered text
36 – Halftone text
37 – Letterpress effect
38 – Type and transparency
05. Type and Pattern
39 – Psychedelic effects using the Difference blend mode
40 – Pattern effects with the Offset filter
41 – Combining the Offset filter with layer masking
42 – Patterned 3D type
43 – Type patterns with symmetry fill
44 – Texture from type
06. Type Portraits
45 – Simple type portrait
46 – Shaded type portrait
47 – Environmental type portrait
07. Conclusion
48 – Next steps
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