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Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to quickly
create
striking, fun, text design that you can use for almost any occasion.
Create a new document by pressing Ctrl + N
on Windows or Cmd + N on a Mac.
You can make it any size you'd like. I'll make mine
1550 by 870 pixels with a resolution of 150 pixels per inch.
Go to
View and make sure Snap is not checked.
Open your Horizontal TypeTool
and pick a font. I'm using "Bank Gothic".
If you'd like to use it, I provided its link in the video description or project
files.
I'll make the point size 100, Sharp
Center Text and Black for the color.
Type out your text. To increase or decrease the space between all your
characters,
highlight your text and press and hold
Alt on Windows or Option on a Mac
as you press the left or right arrow keys on your keyboard.
To increase or decrease the space or
"kerning" between two characters, click between those characters
and again, press and hold Alt or Option
as you press the left or right arrows. Ultimately,
we want the characters to be as close as possible, but be optically balanced.
Meaning, there could be a little space between them if you think they look
better.
Click on your Move Tool and press Ctrl
or Cmd + T to open your Transform Tool. Click inside the Transform
and drag it to the upper left corner. Go to the bottom right corner of the
Transform
and when you see a diagonal, double-arrow,
press and hold Shift as you drag it out to the right side of your document.
Pressing Shift keeps the shape or aspect ratio
of the text. Position it, so the text is also flush with the top.
Then, press Enter or Return. Press "T" to open your Type Tool,
click on your document and type out your second line of text.
Adjust the kerning. Click on your Move Tool
and open your Transform Tool. Move it to the left
and drag the corner of the Transform to the right.
Adjust the size and position of the text,
so it's flush with the sides of the document and the bottom
of the top text. Then press Enter or Return.
Repeat this process for the other lines of text.
If you need your document to have more space at the bottom,
go to Image and Canvas Size. Change the
Inches to Percent and type in a larger number
for the height. Click on the top, middle of the Anchor grid
and make the Canvas Extension color
White. Then, click OK. To see the entire document on your screen,
press Ctrl or Cmd + 0. As you can see,
you have more space at the bottom, if you need it. I'll go back to my original size.
If you want to crop your image to the bottom of the text,
open your Rectangular Marquee Tool,
click on the top, left corner and drag out a rectangular selection to the lower,
right corner
of the bottom text. Then, go to Image
and Crop. To delete the selection,
press Ctrl or Cmd + D. Go to the top layer
and Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the large "T"
to make a selection of the text. Go to the "T" on the next layer
and press and hold Shift, as you Ctrl-click
or Cmd-click on it. This adds the selection of the shape
of that text. Repeat this for the rest of your text layers.
Click on the New Layer icon to make a new layer.
We'll fill it with black. If your foreground and background colors
aren't black and white respectively, press "D" on your keyboard.
Since Black is the foreground color, press
Alt or Option + Delete to fill the Selection
with Black. Invert your Selection
by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + I.
To make sure its inverted, press "Q" to see it as a quickmask.
Press "Q" again to make it back into a Selection.
We'll save the selection by going to Select
and Save Selection. When you see this window,
click OK. We'll hide the Selection
by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + H.
Open your Paint Bucket Tool and click on the foreground color.
Pick a color and click OK.
Click on a white area to fill it with the color you picked.
Go to the other white areas and click on them to fill them with the same color.
Click back on the foreground color and pick another color.
Click on various white areas to fill them in.
Continue until you filled all the white areas with colors you like.
The last steps will be to make the areas of color fade to white at the top and
bottom of the image.
Open your Channels panel. If you don't see it,
go to Window and Channels. Go to Alpha 1,
which is the selection that we saved earlier. Ctrl-click it
or Cmd-click it to make it back into a selection.
Open back the Layers panel and make a new layer.
Click on the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection
next to the empty layer. Make the empty layer
active and change its Blend Mode
to "Pin Light". Open you Gradient Tool
and click the Reflective Gradient icon.
Click on the Gradient bar and click on the lower, left stop.
Click the color box and type in
8 0 8 0 8 0, which gives us
50% grey. Then, click OK
on both windows.
Go to the middle of your image and press and hold
Shift as you drag straight down to the bottom.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!