Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going too show you how to create your
own ancient, engraved, medieval coat of arms.
I provided a Photoshop file that you can download to follow along.
It's link is located in the video description of project files. It includes
this background of scratched metal and a silhouette of crisscrossed spears.
Temporarily, hide the spears
and click the thumbnail of the background to make the layer active. Make
a copy of it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J
and drag the copy to the top of the Layers panel.
Hide the copy and make the Spears layer active.
Open your Horizontal Type Tool.
Click the Center Text icon
and go to Window and Character. The Character panel will open.
Choose an ancient-looking font. I'm using "Abaddon II Regular".
If you'd like to use it, I provided its link, as well.
Click the color box and in the Brightness field, type in 50% to pick a neutral grey
color. Then, click OK.
Click on your document and type your text.
If you have more than one line of text and want to make one line larger than the other,
highlight the line you want to enlarge
and either drag the Size icon to the right or type in a larger point
size. I'll type in 198. To adjust the space between lines, drag the "leading" icon to
the left or right.
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 left or right
arrow key on your keyboard. When your done kerning your characters, let's center the
text on your document.
Click your Move Tool and press Ctrl or Cmd + A to select the text.
Click the "Align Horizontal Centers" icon
and the "Align Vertical Centers " icon.
To deselect it, press Ctrl or Cmd + D. We can close the Character panel now.
Click the icon and click "Bevel Emboss".
The Style is "Inner Bevel" and the Technique is Chisel Hard.
The Depth is 100%, the Direction is Up and the Size is 10 pixels. Uncheck Global
Light. Make the Angle: 70 degrees and the Altitude: 15 degrees. Make the Highlight mode:
Color Dodge and its Opacity: 60%. Click "Contour" and open the contour presets. Click the double
ring thumbnail. Click Stroke. Make the Size: 4 pixels and the Position is Outside. Change
the Blend Mode to Linear Burn and make the Opacity: 50%. Click Color Overlay. Make the
Blend Mode: "Color" and click the color box. In the hexadecimal field, type in: C7BB83.
Then, click OK.
Click Outer Glow. Make the Blend Mode: Linear Burn and keep the Opacity at 75%. Click the
color box and pick black. Then, click OK. Make the Size: 35 pixels. Click Drop Shadow.
Change the Blend Mode to Overlay and the Opacity to 40%. Make the Distance: 40 pixels, the
Spread: 40% and the Size: 50 pixels. Then, click OK. I think I'd like to adjust the kerning
again between some characters, so I'll press "T" to open my Type tool, click between those
characters and kern them.
To save space in the Layers panel, let's hide the list of effects
in the text layer by clicking the arrowhead next to the "fx" icon. We didn't delete the
effects; we just hid the list from view. To make a new layer below the active layer, Ctrl-click
or Cmd-click on the New Layer icon. Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the large "T" on your text
layer to make a selection of the text's shape. Go to Select, Modify and Expand. Expand it
10 pixels and click OK or press Enter or Return. We'll fill the selection with black. To do
this, press "D" on your keyboard to revert the foreground and background colors back
to black and white, respectively and then, press Alt or Option + Delete to fill the selection
with the foreground color. Press Ctrl or Cmd + D to deselect it. Change the Blend Mode
to Color Burn and reduce the Fill to 25%.
If we were to reduce the Opacity instead,
it would look like this. As I toggle back and forth, you can see the difference. Make
a new layer below this layer by Ctrl-clicking or Cmd-clicking on the New Layer icon. Let's
name it, "Shield". Open your Elliptical Marquee Tool, go to the center of your document and
press and hold Alt or Option + Shift as you drag out a circle approximately this size.
Fill it with the foreground color, which is black. Then, deselect it. To center the circle
on your document, repeat the steps that you used earlier to center your text. Click your
Move Tool, press Ctrl or Cmd + A and then, click the Align Horizontal Centers icon and
the Align Vertical Centers icon. Then, deselect it. Reduce its Fill to 0.
Go to the "fx" icon
and press and hold Alt or Option as you drag a copy of the effects to your Shield layer.
Hide the effects list and make the "Spears" layer visible and active. Reduce the Fill
to 25% and drag a copy of the effects to the Spears layer. To hide the spears behind the
shield, Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the thumbnail of the shield to make a selection of its shape.
Click the Layer mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection next to the spears.
Invert the Layer Mask by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + I.
Make the background copy visible and active.
Change the Blend Mode to Overlay. We want to restrict the background texture
to be visible just inside the text. To do this, make a selection of the text and click the
Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection next to the Background copy. Let's
flip the texture inside the text, so there's a variance between it and the background texture.
Click off the lock icon between the background and its layer mask. This will allow us to
move and resize either one independently of the other. Make the background active and
go to Edit, Transform and Flip Horizontal.
Lastly, we'll brighten the spears. Make the Spears layer active and reduce the Fill to 0.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!