Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you how to create this vintage-looking,
custom, carnival curtain from by-gone days with your own custom text design .
I provided this flourished frame and this vintage pattern for you to download, so you can follow along.
Their links are located in the video description or project files. I downloaded the pattern
from cgtexures.com. Feel free to use a different pattern if you like. Open the flourished border
and click the New Layer icon to make a new layer. We'll fill the empty layer with black
or white. If your foreground and background colors aren't black and white respectively,
press "D" on your keyboard. Since black is the foreground color, I'll press Alt or Option
+ Delete to fill the empty layer with black. Open your pattern and go to Edit and "Define
Pattern". Then, click OK. Click on the tab of the frame to open it and double-click on the
top layer to open its Layer Style window. Click "Pattern Overlay". Click on the arrow
to open the pattern thumbnails and scroll to the bottom. The last thumbnail should be
the pattern you just saved. Click on it to open it.
To increase or decrease the pattern,
you could either slide the Scale to the right or left or type in an amount. I'll type in
30%. Then, click OK. We need to make it dark. First, click the icon at the upper, right
of the Layers panel and click "Convert to Smart Object".
Click the Adjustment layer icon and choose "Levels".
In the black input field, type in 90 and in the white output
field, type in 110. Click the Adjustment layer icon again and this time, choose "Gradient".
Click the arrow next to the gradient bar to open the thumbnails. Click the Black to Transparent
thumbnail and click "Reverse". Then, click OK. Reduce the opacity to 60%.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer.
We'll fill it with white and since white is the background
color, press Ctrl or Ctrl + Delete.
Open your Gradient Tool. Open the gradient thumbnails
and click the gear icon to open your list of gradient presets. Click "Special Effects"
and when you see this warning, click OK to see just the Special Effect gradients in the thumbnails window.
Click the second gradient from the left, which is named "Soft Stripes" and make sure the
Linear gradient icon is active. Go to View and make sure Rulers and Snap are checked.
If they aren't, simply click on them to make them active. Go to the left edge of your document,
press and hold "Shift" and drag out a line to the right edge. Then, release your cursor.
Go to the ruler on the left and drag out a guide line to the center. It'll snap in place
because we have Snap checked. If you don't see the guide line, press Ctrl or Cmd + H.
Open your Transform Tool by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T. Go the middle of the right side
and when you see a horizontal, double-arrow, drag it to the left until it snaps to the
middle. Then, press Enter or Return. Make a copy of the layer by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J.
Open your Transform Tool, go to the left-middle of the Transform and drag it to the right
until it snaps to the right edge of the document.
Merge these two layers by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + E.
Go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur. Blur it 15 pixels and click OK. Go to Layer
and Duplicate Layer. Click on Frame and click "New". Type. "Displacement" and click OK.
Click File and "Save As". Save it to your Desktop as a PSD and click "Save" or press
Enter or Return. If you see this message, click OK.
Click the tab of the frame document
to open it. Click off the eyeball next to the top layer to hide it and click the thumbnail
of the pattern to make it active. Go to Filer, Distort and Displace. Displace the Horizontal
and Vertical Scales: 5 pixels, "Stretch to Fit" and "Repeat Edge Pixels". Then, click
OK. Click the Displacement document and click "Open".
Notice that the pattern made a subtle,
but important distortion based on the tonal values of the displacement file. Drag the
frame just below the top layer.
Open your Horizontal Type Tool and choose a font. I'm
using "Carnivalee Freakshow Regular", which I also provided. For this font, I'll make
the size 138 points, however, choose a size that works for your font and title. I'll make
the Anti-alias: Smooth and Center Alignment. Click on your document and type out your text.
To adjust the space between characters, also known as "kerning", click between those characters
and press and hold Alt or Option as you press the right or left arrow key on your keyboard.
To reposition your line of text, open your Move Tool and move it.
Go to Select and "Color Range".
Choose "Shadows" and click OK. This makes a selection of the text and the frame.
Hide the text and the frame layers and click the New Layer icon to make a new layer. We'll
fill the selection with white and since white is the background color, press Ctrl or Cmd
+ Delete. To deselect it, press Ctrl or Cmd + D. Change the Blend Mode to "Overlay" and
reduce the Opacity to 70%. To displace your text design, press Ctrl or Cmd + F to repeat
the last filter, which if you recall, displaced the pattern background. Drag the layer that
we used for the displacement between the Gradient and Levels adjustment layers. Make it visible
and change its Blend Mode to "Linear Burn". Reduce the "Fill" to 20%.
We've just the dark version of your vintage curtain.
To create the bright, spotlights that will
illuminate it, first, make the top layer active and make a composite snapshot of your entire
image by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E on Windows or Cmd + Shift + Option + E on a Mac.
Hide the composite snapshot and scroll down to the "Levels" Adjustment layer. Click the
Levels icon to make the adjustment layer active and in the black input field, type in 40 and
in the white output field, type in 255. Scroll up to the top and click the thumbnail of your
text design to make it active. Then, click the New Layer icon to make a new layer. In
this empty layer we'll create our first spotlight. Open your Elliptical Marquee Tool, go to the
center of your document, press and hold Alt or Option + Shift and drag out a circle approximately
this size. Fill it with white and then, deselect it.
Go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur.
Blur it 7 pixels and click OK or press Enter or Return. Temporarily, reduce its opacity,
so you can see through it. To reposition it, use your Move Tool.
Make a copy of the spotlight and reposition the copy.
Overlapping it ensures that all of the text will be bright enough
to read. Once they're in position, increase the spotlights' opacity back to 100%
Next, we'll make one selection that comprises both spotlights.
To do this, Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the original
thumbnail of the spotlight to make a selection of its shape. Then, go to the
spotlight copy and press Ctrl + Shift or Cmd + Shift as you click on the thumbnail to add
its selection. Hide the spotlights and make the composite snapshot visible and active.
Click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask next to the composite snapshot. Invert
the layer mask by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + I.
To displace the spotlights, go to Filter,
Distort and Displace. Click OK, click the Displacement file and click "Open".
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!