Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you how you can quickly create
this towel that you can customize with your own graphics and text.
I provided the links to the files of the towel
and the Olympic rings, so you can follow along.
They're located in the video's description or project files.
Open the towel file. We're going to use it as a "displacement map". This will make the
to wrap themselves around the contours of the towel. Displacement maps seem to work
best when they're slightly blurred,
so go to"Filter"..."Blur"...and "Gaussian Blur".
Blur it by 1.5 pixels.
Click OK or press Enter or Return.
Go to "File" and "Save As".
Save it to your desktop as a Photoshop file...
and name it, "Displacement". Then click, "Save".
Go to the History panel
and click on the top history state. If you don't see your History panel,
Go to "Window" and "History". Open the Olympic ring file I provided.
If you want to use a different graphic, just make sure you can make a selection
around it, so it can be separated from its background
For this example, I'll use the Magic Wand Tool...
to make the selection. I'll make the "Tolerance"...
32... make sure "Anti-alias" is checked...
and "Contiguous" is unchecked. Click anywhere inside the white area to make a
selection.
We need to invert it. To do this,
press Ctrl + Shift + I on a PC or Cmd +Shift + I
on a Mac. Now, we can cut and copy the image from its background
by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J. To get the Olympic rings
onto the towel, press "V" to open your "Move" tool
and drag it up onto the tab of the towel file.
Without releasing your mouse or pen, drag it down
onto the towel and release. To resize and reposition it,
open your Transform tool by pressing Ctrl
or Cmd + T. To see the entire transform on your screen, press Ctrl or
Cmd + 0.
Drag inside the transform to reposition it closer to the center.
To resize it, go to a corner...
and when you see a straight, double-arrow, press and hold...
Shift + Alt on a PC or Shift
+ Opt on a Mac, as you drag it in or
out until you're happy with its size. Then, press Enter or Return.
Press Ctrl or Cmd + 0 to fit it back onto your screen.
To get rid of the thin, white fringe that surrounds the image,
go to "Layer..."Matting"...
and "Defringe". Defringe it by 1 pixel.
We're ready to set our text.
Open your Horizontal Type tool and choose a font.
I'm using "Cafeta". If you want to use it,
I provided that link as well. I'll choose a size of
60 points...Smooth...Center alignment...
and black for the color. Type out your text.
To reposition it, click on your Move tool
and move it. If it's sticking a little,
go to "View" and make sure "Snap" is not
checked. If it is, just click on it to disable it.
Open your Type tool again by either clicking on it or pressing
"T" on your keyboard. Click on your document...
and the color box.
I want to pick up the color of the red ring, so I'll click down on it.
Then, click OK or press Enter or Return.
Open your Type tool and type out your second line.
Open your Move tool to reposition it.
Right now, don't be concerned with having it perfectly centered.
We'll center everything in a minute. If you want to type out a third line,
open your Type tool and click on your document.
I want to have the same color as the blue leaf design,
so I'll click on the color box
and click down on a leaf to pick up its color.
I'll type out my line of text
and open my Move tool to reposition it.
If you want to move all the text in the graphic up or down on the towel,
Shift-click on the Olympic rings to highlight all the layers
in-between it and the active layer. All the highlighted layers and now
active. By clicking on the image and moving it,
all the active layers move together. I'd like to italicize the bottom line,
so I'll click on that layer to make just this active.
I'll open my Type tool again... highlight it...
and go to "Window" and "Character". I'll click on the "faux italic"
icon...
then, close the text panels. Let's center everything on your document.
Shift-click on the Olympic rings or whatever graphic you have
to highlight it and all the text.
Click on your Move tool and then press Ctrl
or Cmd + A to select your entire document...
and click on the "Align Horizontal Centers" icon.
To make the text that's in front of the graphic more legible,
we'll remove the areas of the graphic that surround the text.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the thumbnail of the text to make a selection of the shape, go to your
other text that's in front of your graphic
and press Shift + Ctrl on a PC
or shift or Shift + Cmd on a Mac to add a selection
of the shape. Go to "Select",
"Modify"...and "Expand". For this example,
I'll expand them by 10 pixels.
Go to the thumbnail of your graphic and press, "Delete".
This deleted the areas of the graphic within the selection.
To delete the selection, press Ctrl or Cmd +D.
Click off the thumbnail of the towel layer to hide the towel.
The next step is to make a composite snapshot of your image.
To do this, make your top layer active
and press Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E on a PC
or Cmd + Shift + Opt + E on a Mac.
Now that we have a composite snapshot of the text and the graphic,
we can hide their individual layers.
Make the background visible.
We're going to slightly blur the text and graphic because they'll
ultimately blend in better on the towel.
Go to "Filter"..."Blur"...and "Gaussian Blur".
Blur it by 1 pixel. Then, click OK.
Go back to"Filter"..."Distort"...
and "Displace". We'll displace the Horizontal and Vertical scales by
8... the "Displacement Map" is "Stretch to Fit"...
and the Undefined Areas are "Repeat Edge Pixels.
Then, click OK.
When this window pops up, click
"Desktop". Click on the Displacement file,
then click, "Open". The text and graphic
are now wrapping itself around the towel. To blend it better into the towel,
change the Blend Mode to "Multiply".
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!