Hey guys, what's going on?
It's me, Will Paterson.
Today I'm going to be showing you how to create these really
cool text effects easily.
Hopefully in a shorter format video.
The first one is this text effect.
This is kind of like a spray on.
And also this matte feeling text effect.
It's really easy to do inside of Photoshop and you only need
to use Photoshop.
And the great thing about this is you can double click it and
you can change the text
like so.
And it will change on the fly.
So you can actually save this to your computer and reuse it
whenever you need it.
First thing you want to do is we're going to just type in
bold, something like this.
I'm going to go full caps.
So I'm going to center this to the artboard here.
Now this is a taxface.
What we need to do is right click on this and go to Convert
to Smart Object.
A smart object essentially nests it.
So whenever you click on it again, it will open up in like
this new Photoshop file where you can edit what's in it.
However, it's a really good way of not destroying the work.
It's called nondestructive editing.
Okay, the first thing we're going to do is add a blur.
So go to Filter.
We're going to go to Blur Gallery and Tilt shift.
This is a great blur to use.
Tilt shift makes things look small.
Or gives that perspective of looking through a microscope or
something miniature.
We're going to move down these lines like so.
And we're going to increase the density of the blur.
You can see it just working on the fly there.
Just play around with these settings.
A nice blur at the top here.
And press okay.
Now the cool thing is we can go back and change this whenever
we need to.
So don't worry about messing it up.
The next thing we're going to do is make sure we're highlighted.
We're going to go up to Noise.
Add some noise.
And I've gone for about 51%.
You want to be able to see the noise, but you don't want it to
be too distracting because that's going to be like a matte finish.
Then we're going to add another blur.
There's all the text effects here, but this blur is Box Blur.
We're only going to add a slight Box Blur to this because
it's just going to slightly blur the noise.
It's going to desaturate it and decrease the contrast as well
within the blur and also within the noise, making it look a bit more realistic.
The last effect is a glass one.
Go to Filter.
We're going to go to the Filter Gallery and search for Glass.
Mine is right here, Glass.
And we're going to go to Distortion.
All the way up, smoothness, all the way down, frosted and press.
Okay.
Now that's given us a really sharp matte look to this.
It's given that frosted glass effect.
Now, to go one step further, we can actually go to Liquefy, and
this is totally optional.
Liquefy, you all know what it does, but essentially we can create some
really cool shapes from this nice and easily.
And again, because it's in a smart object, we can go ahead
and fix it to whatever we need to do whatever later on.
But there you go.
That's how you do it.
Get another brush and bring in some splatter and you got
yourself a really cool textile.
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This next one is for anyone that likes to create cool
looking logos easily.
This one is actually super easy.
So we're going to go into Illustrator this time.
Okay, so for this one, what we're going to do is just type in a letter.
We're going to type in B, scale that up, and we're going to
press Command Shift O.
That's going to outline it.
It's no longer edited text.
It is just a shape, as you can see here with all the anchor points.
But then you're going to go to another art board, so create another one.
Create a stroke, make sure that stroke is black and change the
value to something like 20.
Probably a bit more than that to be fair.
Go to Effect.
We're going to go down to Distort and Transform and Zigzag,
and it's going to create these harsh zigzags, but
we're going to press Smooth, which will make them pretty smooth.
Play around with these settings until you're happy,
once you are, press okay.
Then we need to expand this so we get rid of that
effect so it actually applies properly to Expand, hold, Alt
and Shift and just drag down ever so slightly.
Let go, but do not click away from that shape.
Because what we're going to do is press Command D and it will
just repeat the action that we just took.
What I'm going to do now is I'm going to highlight my B and
press Shift and X, which will change the fill to the stroke
and the stroke to the fill.
But in this case, it has gotten rid off this fill, so we've
only got a stroke now.
What we're going to do is take our lines.
Press Command 8.
What you'll see is that group turns into a compound path.
Illustrator now thinks that this is basically just one
shape, so it will act like one.
And it's really important that you do that to see whether it's
a compound path or a group or just a shape.
Go up here.
You'll see it.
When I create a compound path of Command 8, it will change.
So drag over the wave, over to the B, takes the B, and we're
going to right click, arrange and bring to the front.
Really important that we do that.
Highlight the B and the wavy line.
Right click, make clippy mask.
What we've got here is a really cool tech shape.
But the problem is it's kind of just a clipping mask right now.
But it does look pretty cool and pretty easy to do, right?
So what if we wanted to actually make these lines
transparent here?
Well, what we're going to do is highlight the shape and go to
this Object here.
Edit content.
We're going to go to Object, Path.
Outline the strokes you'll see there that all those strokes
have now turned into shapes, which allows us, if we were to
select all of this, go into the actual clipping mask selection here.
Go to Pathfinder, which you can find in Window and then down to Pathfinder
Go to Pathfinder and press Divide.
Now we have our shape here as a group, like so in a really cool fashion.
You can do a lot of cool things with this as well.
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