Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. This is Part 2 of a tutorial showing how to
create a gold, medallion coin portrait with wrap-around text. Picking up from where we
left off, open your medallion coin folder and make the top layer active. Open the photo
file that you worked on in Part 1. To place it into your medallion document, press "v"
to open your Move Tool and drag it onto the medallion tab. Without releasing your cursor,
drag it down onto the image and release. It's bright yellow because its layer is inside
the medallion coin folder which is being effected by the Color Balance adjustment layer. Ctrl-click
or Cmd-click on the top layer mask to make a selection of its shape. Go to Select and
"Transform Selection". Click the chain-link button. In either the width or the height,
type in 96%. Then, click the checkmark to accept it.
Click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection next to the active layer.
Click off the chain-link to unlink the layer mask to the layer.
Now, we can resize and reposition the layer and the
layer mask independently of the other. Click the layer to make it active. To resize and
position it, open your Transform Tool. Go to a corner and when you see a diagonal, double-arrow,
press and hold Alt or Option + Shift as you drag it in or out. To reposition it, just
drag it. Continue to finesse it, so its sized and centered on your medallion making sure
there's enough room for the wrap-around text. Then press Enter or Return.
Go to Filter and Filter Gallery.
Close the "Texture" folder and open the "Sketch" folder. Click "Bas Relief".
I'll make the Light from the "Top Left", the Detail: 14 and the Smoothness: 1 ,however,
feel free to play with these amounts. Next, we'll draw the circular path that we'll place
our text onto. Open your Ellipse Tool and choose "Path". If you're working on version
CS5 or earlier, the Path Tool is here. Click the gear icon, tick "Circle" and check
"From Center". Go to the center of the guidelines and drag out a circular path a little past
your subject. Then, go to View and "Clear Guides".
To make it easier to see our text on the path, click off the eyeball next to your subject.
Open your Horizontal Type Tool and choose a font. I'm using "Aparajita
Regular". It's size is 18 points, Smooth and Center Alignment. Go to the top center of
your path and when you see this icon, click on the path and type out your text.
To increase or decrease the space between the characters,
drag your cursor over your text to highlight it
and go to Window and Character. The Character panel will open. Slide the "Tracking" icon
to the left or right. Make sure you leave room for a new line of text at the bottom.
Open your Move Tool. To make your Path visible again, open your Paths panel. If you don't
see it, go to Window and Paths. Click the "Work Path" thumbnail to see your path again.
Then, open back your Layers panel. Open your Type Tool again, hover your cursor over the
bottom of your path and when you see the same icon, click on the path and type out your
text. It'll be upside down, but we'll correct it. Open your "Direct Selection Tool" and
hover your cursor over your text. When you see this double-arrow icon, drag your text
up and over the path to make it right-side up. To lower your text, so it sits below the
path, press "T" to open your Type Tool and highlight your text. Drag the "Baseline Shift"
icon to the left until the top of the text is flush with the path. If you want, you can
also type in the amount. For this example, minus 10 sets the text perfectly. Open your
Move Tool. We'll place both layers of text into a folder. Shift-click on the second layer
to highlight it, as well, and press Ctrl or Cmd + G. Name it "Text". Reduce the "Fill"
to Zero. This makes the text invisible, but will keep its layer styles that we'll be adding
to it, visible. Make your subject visible again and with your text folder still active,
click the "fx" icon and click "Bevel Emboss". Keep everything at their default settings,
but make the Technique: "Chisel Hard". Click "Drop Shadow". Make the opacity between 60
to 65%, the Distance: 3 pixels and the Size: 6 pixels. Then, click OK.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!