Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects

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Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects (Updated Dec 21, 2015)

Duration: 5hr 31m | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720 30fps | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, 2ch | 1.4 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

This installment of Photoshop for Designers explains how to create beautiful typographic effects and challenges designers to expand their creative mindset with type. Author Nigel French describes how to combine letters and imagery and how to illustrate ideas with type, often with just a few simple tweaks to the letterforms themselves. The final chapter contains a few creative projects, such as fashioning portraits and maps comprised entirely of type.

Topics include:

Illustrating with shape layers, layer masks, and clipping masks
Modifying letterforms
Using a displacement map
Illustrating words
Creating effects such as smoky or fiery type
Working with brushes and type
Warping text
Using a Vanishing Point grid
Incorporating repetition and pattern
Layering type

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