PHOTOSHOP CS4 DOWN & DIRTY TRICKS- P5

PHOTOSHOP CS4 DOWN & DIRTY TRICKS- P5: These chapter intros are all named after either song titles, movies, orTV shows, and this chapter is named after the song “Miracle Photo,”by a band called Ruth (which is an all-guy band, which is whatmakes the name cool, right? Because if it was an all-guy band andthey named it Mike, it would sound totally uncool, unless of course,no one in the band was named Mike, which would then make thename cool again.
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PHOTOSHOP CS4 DOWN & DIRTY TRICKS- P5 STEP 13: You’re going to start to apply the effect to the text. (Note: I’ve turned off the Rulers [Command-R; PC: Ctrl-R] and removed the guides [by choosing Clear Guides from the View menu] because we no longer need them.) First, click on the top layer in your layer stack and create a new blank layer at the top by clicking on the Create a New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel. Command-Shift-click (PC: Ctrl- Shift-click) directly on the thumbnail for your top Type layer (the ’09 layer, as shown here) to put a selection around the type on that layer. Then go to the next layer down (keep holding down those keys) and click on its thumbnail. It will add the word on that layer to your selection. Keep doing that (and keep holding those two keys down) for the rest of your Type layers, until there’s a selection around all the Type layers you created (as seen here). By the way, what’s making this work like this is the Shift key—when you hold it down, along with the Command key, it tells Photoshop to add the next thing you click on, so as you keep clicking on Type layer thumbnails, it keeps adding that layer to your selection already in place. STEP 14: Click on the Foreground color swatch and set your Foreground color to a medium gray. Make sure you still have that new top layer se- lected in the Layers panel, and press Option-Delete (PC: Alt-Backspace) to fill the type selection with gray (as seen here). Don’t deselect quite yet.106 Chapter Chapter 4 Type Effects EffectSTEP 15: Go under the Filter menu,under Sketch, and choose HalftonePattern. When the dialog appears, forSize, choose 1, for Contrast, choose 23(as shown here), set your Pattern Typeto Dot, then click OK. This puts a tightdot pattern over your type that lookspretty cool (I know it’s hard to seehere in the book, but you’ll see it onyour screen big time!). Now you canDeselect by pressing Command-D (PC:Ctrl-D). To have your dots layer blendin with your type on the layer below it,go to the Layers panel and change thelayer blend mode to Soft Light, andlower the Opacity to 30% (as shownhere). Now, it nicely blends over thetype, and most of the original color isstill there. STEP 16: Let’s add some really huge type, just for looks. Duplicate your“SERIES” Type layer, then click-and- drag the duplicate layer above your gray dots layer. Highlight the text on the layer, change the color to white, and type “TRUCK PROVING GROUND” (one word on each line). Use the same font and make it really huge. I made mine 38 points at –100 tracking. I also made the Leading (the vertical space between the lines of text) really tight, too—in the Character panel, I set the Leading to 28. Now, get the Move tool and move this type over to the lower right of the image and then lower the layer Opacity of this Type layer to 10% (as shown here), so the text is just barely there. Continued Type Effects Chapter 4 107 STEP 17: You’re going to build another block of text, but these words are going to line up differently. Duplicate one of your Type layers (like the “SERIES” layer) and click-and-drag it up to the top of the layer stack. Highlight it, type “THE MOST,” and then move it over to the right with the Move tool. Repeat this to create new Type layers for “EFFICIENT,” “OF THE,” “BIG,” and finally “TRUCKS.” Highlight the “EFFICIENT” text and change the color to that same yellow color you used on the ’09 text. Do the same thing for “TRUCKS.” Next, change the color of “THE MOST,” “OF THE,” and “BIG” to white. Now, you just have to resize them and then align them. If you look at the type here, you’ll see that the first three lines (“THE MOST,” “EFFICIENT,” and “OF THE”) are all aligned along the right, and they line up with the right side of the letter “R” in “TRUCKS.” The word “BIG” is as tall as “EFFICIENT” and “OF THE” combined, and it’s aligned with the letters “UC” below it. Again, everything has to line up with something, but that’s actu- ally good, because now it’s no longer a guessing game, right? Now you know, “Oh, this should line up with these other letters.” STEP 18: Now it’s time to put a selec- tion around all those new Type layers, so we can add our text effect to them. Create a new blank layer at the top of your layer stack. Command-Shift- click (PC: Ctrl-Shift-click) directly on the thumbnails for all your new Type layers to put a selection around them (as shown here). Once all of them are selected, set your Foreground color to a medium gray, and fill your selection with this color. Don’t deselect yet.108 Chapter Chapter 4 Type Effects EffectSTEP 19: Press Command-F (PC: Ctrl-F)to apply the Halftone Pattern filter,using the exact same settings you used afew moments ago when applying the fil-ter to the type at the top left (that key-board shortcut does just that—it repeatsyour last filter using the same settings).Now, at this point, it’s covering yourtype, but you want it to blend in. Lasttime, we changed the layer blend modeto Soft Light, but this time we’re goingto choose Multiply instead, because ourtext is white and yellow, rather thandark gray, brown, and yellow, so in thiscase, Multiply looks better (by the way, Ididn’t just magically know that. When Ichose Soft Light it looked bad, so I wentthrough some of the other blend modesuntil I ...