5hr+ | Video: 720p | Project files | Subtitles | 1.9 GB

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