Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. The title design logo seen the sci-fi movie
trailer for 65 is simple, but powerful and effective. I thought it would be fun to show
you how to recreate something similar in Photoshop from scratch.
I provided a font that's similar to the movie's logo.
It's not the exact font, but for the purposes of this video, it's fine.
Its link is in my video's description or project files. Before we begin, if you want to be
notified as soon as I upload new Photoshop tutorials, hit that "Subscribe" button.
Create a new document by going to File and New. Make its width is 3840 pixels, its height is 2160
pixels and its resolution 72 pixels per inch. The Color Mode is RGB and 8 bits per channel.
If the background color isn't white, open the fly-out list and click white.
Then, click Create or Open . We'll create black horizontal bars at the top and bottom to give our cinematographic
image an aspect ratio of a widescreen theatrical format. Click the lock icon next to the background
to unlock it. We'll create a new layer below it by Ctrl or Cmd-clicking the New Layer icon.
We'll fill it with black, but before we do, check your foreground and background colors.
If they aren't black and white respectively, press "D" on your keyboard. Black should be
our foreground color. To fill our empty layer with the foreground color, press Alt or Option
+ Delete. Next, we'll place the top layer into a folder by making it active and pressing
Ctrl or Cmd + G. We can tell that it's inside a folder because the layer is indented to
the right. Go to View, Guides, and "New Guide Layout". If you don t see the guidelines,
press Ctrl of Cmd + H. Check "Rows". The number of rows is 1. Check "Margin". For the "Top"
and "Bottom", type in 4 inches and for the "Left" and "Right", type in 0 inches. All other fields should be empty.
Go to View. If "Snap" isn't checked, just click it to activate it.
Open your Rectangular Marquee Tool and make sure the "Add Selection" icon is active. This allows
us to add selections as we make them. From the top, left corner, drag across a rectangular
selection to the bottom right corner of the upper guideline. It'll snap in place because
we have Snap checked . Drag another selection from the bottom to the top right corner of
the lower guideline. Alt or Option-click the Layer Mask icon to make an inverted layer
mask next to the folder. Now, all the layers we place inside the folder will be visible
only within the white middle shape and will be masked out or hidden in the black shapes
at the top and bottom. The mantra in layer masks is white reveals and black conceals.
Hide the guidelines by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + H. Make the white layer active.
Click the foreground color too open the Color Picker and in the hexadecimal field, type in: 308292.
Then, click OK or press Enter or Return. Go to Filter, Render, and Clouds. We'll increase
the size of the clouds by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T to open the Transform Tool. At the
top, make sure the chain-link icon is active between the Transform's width and height.
This links them together. In either field, type in 300%. Then, press Enter or Return
twice. Because the clouds are three times its original size and extends way past our
visible canvas, we want to crop off the excess to save file size. To do that, press Ctrl
or Cmd + A to select our visible image and go to Image and Crop. Then, press Ctrl or
Cmd + D to deselect it. Make a copy of it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J. Hide the copy
and make the original clouds active. We'll make an inverted layer mask next to it by
Alt or Option-clicking the Layer Mask icon. Open the Brush Tool and invert the colors
by pressing "x" on your keyboard. White should be our foreground color. Open the Brush Picker.
Pick a soft, round brush. The size is 3200 pixels, the Hardness is 0%, and the Opacity
and Flow are both 100%. Center your cursor approximately here and click once. The reason
we're seeing the clouds on the bottom is because they're being revealed through the white portion
of the layer mask that we brushed in with the brush tool. Next, we'll brighten the bottom
of the clouds. Make a new layer. Change its Blend Mode to Overlay and reduce its opacity to 50%.
Click the foreground color and pick white. Open the Brush Picker and make the
brush's size 2000 pixels. Place your cursor approximately here and drag your brush across.
Make the clouds copy active and make a new layer above it. We'll place our text in this
layer. Open your Horizontal Type Tool and Type Picker. Open the font I provided.
By the way, this font was designed by Larysa Volker. I provided a link whereby you can
thank her if you want with a small donation. If you use another font, just make sure its thick and heavy.
Make the size 1296 points which is the largest we can make it. The aliasing is
Smooth, and the alignment is centered. Click on your document and type out your text.
To adjust the space between the characters, highlight them and press Alt or Option and the right
or left arrow key on your keyboard. We'll make it bigger by clicking the Move Tool and
opening the Transform Tool. Make approximately this big. To center the text on our document,
press Ctrl or Cmd + A to select our entire document and press the "Horizontal Centers
Alignment" icon and the "Vertical Centers Alignment" icon. Deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D.
Reduce the Fill to 0%. This makes our text invisible, but it'll retain all the
layer styles we'll be momentarily adding to it. Double-click the text layer to open its
Layer Style window. Click "Bevel & Emboss". The Style is Inner Bevel, the Technique is
Chisel Hard, and the Depth is 200%. The Direction is Up, the Size is 7 pixels and the Soften
is 0. The Angle is 112 degrees, and the Altitude is 10 degrees. The Gloss Contour is linear.
The Highlight Mode is Linear Dodge, the color is white, and the opacity is 100%. The Shadow
Mode is Linear Burn, the color is black, and its opacity is also 100%. Click "Contour".
Open the Contour preset list and click the gear icon. If the small or large list isn't
checked, click either one. Scroll to "Ring" and click it. Make the Range 100%.
Next, we'll add the clouds texture inside our text and then darken the top portion and brighten the
remaining clouds. Make the clouds copy layer visible and active. Ctrl or Cmd-click the
large "T" of your text layer to select its shape. Click the Layer Mask icon to make a
layer mask of the selection next to the clouds copy layer. Make a new layer. In this layer,
we'll brush in an arc of black to fade out the clouds inside the top of our text. To
restrict our black brush stroke to paint just inside our text, we'll need to clip this layer
to the layer mask below it. To do this, hover your cursor between the two layers and when
it changes into a clipping mask icon, click it. Notice the empty layer is now indented
to the right which indicates it s a clipping mask. Another way to clip it is to go Layer
and Create Clipping Mask . We'll invert the colors by pressing "x" on our keyboard, so
black is our foreground color. Press "B" to open back your Brush Tool and reduce its size
approximately this much relative to the size of your text. Brush across the top of your
text. Next, we'll brighten the clouds inside the text. Click the Adjustment Layer icon
and click "Levels". Clip it to the same layer, so it'll just affect inside the layer mask.
Drag the Input Highlights level across to approximately 75 or you could just type it in.
The following steps will add our final effect of creating a light flare sliver at
the top of our image. Make the text layer active and make a new layer above it. We'll
fill it with black and since our foreground color is black, press Alt or Option + Delete.
Change its Blend Mode to Screen. This blend mode essentially makes pure black disappear
and the remaining tones from pure white to all shades of gray show through. Go to Filter,
Render, and Lens Flare. The Brightness is 50% and the Lens Type is 105mm Prime.
Drag the flare to here so the secondary flares are seen approximately here in the preview window.
Press "v" to open your Move Tool and drag the flare to here. Click the Adjustment
Layer icon and click Solid Color. In the hexadecimal field, type in 308292 which is the same color
as the clouds. Then, click OK or press Enter or Return. Change its Blend Mode to "Color".
Make the lens flare active and open your Transform Tool. We'll stretch out the lens flare to
give it a wide-angle, cinematographic look. At the top, click off the chain-link icon
between the Transform's width and height. Place your cursor over the "W" for its width
and click and drag the scrubby slider to the right until its anywhere between 150 to 160%.
Then, press Enter or Return or click the checkmark. Position it approximately here.
Lastly, we'll decrease the brightness of the secondary flares. Press "B" to open back the Brush Tool and
reduce its opacity to 50%. Place your brush over the secondary flare and click twice.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!