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