Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. This is Part 2 of a two-part tutorial showing
how to use the Picture Frame scripted pattern in Photoshop CC and how to create words that
consist of colorful, multi-leveled text. Picking up from where we left off, we're ready to
add the text. Open your Horizontal Type Tool. We'll be using 3 different fonts. For the
best results, I recommend choosing a very heavy font for one of them, a very thin font
for another and an ornate font for the third. For my heavy font, I'll use "Arial Black".
I'll use a large point size, since I'm only going to type in 4 characters. The anti-aliasing
is Smooth, the Alignment is Center and make sure black is the color. Type out your text.
If you want to adjust its size, click your Move Tool and open your Transform Tool by
pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T. Go to a corner and when you you see a diagonal, double-arrow,
press & hold Alt or Option + Shift as you drag it out out or in. Then, press Enter or Return.
We'll center the text in a moment. To adjust the spaces between your characters, also known
as "tracking", press "T" to open your Type Tool, highlight the text and press and hold
Alt or Option as you press the right or left arrows on your keyboard. To center your text,
open your Move Tool and press Ctrl or Cmd + A to select it. Click the Align Horizontal
Centers icon and the Align Vertical Centers icon. Press Ctrl or Cmd + D to deselect it.
Make 2 copies of your text by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J, twice. Hide the 2 top text layers.
Make the original text layer active and double-click on an empty area of the layer to open its
Layer Style window. Under Advanced Blending, you'll see that the Channels for red, green
and blue are all checked. Uncheck the red and green channels, but leave the blue channel
checked. Your text will look yellow at this point. Click OK. Hide the text and make the
copy above it visible. As before, click on an empty area of the layer to open its Layer
Style window. This time, uncheck the red and blue channels.
Hide this layer and make the top text layer visible and double-click an empty area of the layer to open its Layer Style window.
Uncheck the green and blue channels.
Double-click the large "T" on the active layer to highlight the text.
For this text layer, pick a very thin font. I'll use "Century Gothic Regular".
If you'd like to use it, I provided its link in my video's description.
Make the middle text visible and double-click it to highlight it. Pick an ornate font. I'm
using "KaiserzeitGotisch Regular". I provided its link, as well. Make the bottom text visible
I'd like to adjust the tracking of the
ornate text. Since I know it's the middle text layer in my Layers panel, I'll double-click that layer
to highlight the text. As before, press and hold Alt or Option as you press the left
or right arrow keys on your keyboard. I'd also like to adjust the tracking of the thin
font, so I'll double-click that layer to highlight the thin text and adjust its tracking. When
you've finished adjusting your text, open your Move Tool. If you want to reduce the
opacity of any of the text layers, make that layer active and reduce its opacity.
You can also change the color dynamics of your word
by changing the active channels for each text layer.
This is Marty form Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!