Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to make this dramatically-lit,
theatrical, interior wall with text from scratch.
Create a new document by going to File and New.
Make the size 1550 by 870 pixels with a resolution of 150 pixels per inch.
Then, click OK or press Enter or Return.
Double-click on the thumbnail of the Background
and let's name it "Wall Base".
Double-click on the thumbnail again to open its Layer Style window.
Click "Pattern Overlay" and click the tiny arrow next to the pattern. Click the gear icon to
open your list of pattern presets and choose "Artist Surfaces".
Click OK to replace the current patterns with the patterns from "Artist Surfaces".
Click the gear icon again
and click "Small List".
Scroll to the bottom and click "Brush Pen on Canvas".
Click "Color Overlay"
and the color box. Type in 332103. Then, click OK.
Change its Blend Mode to "Vivid Light".
Click the icon at the upper, right of the Layers panel and click "Convert to Smart Object.
This allows us to modify or adjust the background nondestructively. Click the Adjustment layer
icon and choose "Levels".
Type in 169 for the white input level.
Click the thumbnail of the wall base to make it active
and go to Filter, Render and "Lighting Effects".
If you can't access Lighting Effects, it may be due to one or more of the reasons I listed
in the video description.
Once the Lighting Effects window opens, choose, "Spot" and start
with these settings. Make the Intensity: 90, the Hotspot: 44, the Exposure: 0, Gloss: -100,
Metallic: 100 and the Ambience: 75. Move the spotlight to the center of your document.
Go to the top point on the outer circle and when your see "Scale Width", drag it up to
the top or a bit past the top of your document. Go to the side of the outer circle and when
you see "Scale Length", drag out out approximately this much. The inner circle is called "Hotspot".
To adjust its size, you could either drag the bottom point up or down or
type in an amount. Let's type in 28.
Then, click OK or press Enter or Return.
Go back to Filter, Render and Lighting Effects
and when the next spotlight appears, drag it straight across
approximately this much and press Enter or Return.
Repeat this one more time
and it to the opposite side.
We're ready to set our text.
Make the top layer active.
Photoshop always places the text above the active layer.
Open your Horizontal Type Tool
and choose a font. I'm using "Ar Bonnie Regular". If you'd like to use it, I provided its link
in the video description of project files. For this font, I'll make its size 123 points.
Make it Smooth, Center Alignment and black for its color. If the color box isn't black,
just click on it and when the Color Picker opens, pick black. Click on your document
and type out your text.
To reposition it,
open your Move Tool and move it.
Lower the Fill to 55%.
Lowering the Fill will reduce the text's opacity, but it won't lower the
opacity of the effects that we'll be adding to the text. If we were to lower the opacity
instead of the Fill, it would also reduce the opacity of the effects, as well.
Click the "fx" icon and choose "Inner Shadow".
The Blend Mode is Multiply and the Opacity is 90%.
Make the Angle: 90 degrees, the Distance: 3 pixels and the Size: 0. Click Drop Shadow.
Make the Blend Mode: Color Dodge and click the color box. Pick white and click OK.
Reduce the Opacity to 35%, the Distance to 3 pixels and the Size to 0. Then, click OK.
Next, we'll add art deco lines.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer.
Open your Rectangular Marquee Tool,
place your cursor above your text and flush with the left of your first character.
Drag across a thin, rectangular selection to the right edge of your last character.
Fill the selection with black and since black is the foreground color, press Alt or Option
+ Delete. To deselect it, press Ctrl or Cmd + D.
To copy the text effects to the line
that we just made, place your cursor on the word "Effects" and Alt-click or Option-click
on it. This makes a copy of the effects. Drag the copy to the top layer.
Lower the Fill to 0.
Double-click on Inner Shadow to open it in the Layer Style window. Lower the Opacity
to 60% and click on Drop Shadow. Make the Distance: 2 pixels and click OK.
Make a copy of the line by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J.
Press and hold Shift as you drag the copy straight
down below your text the same distance as the top line is from the text. Holding Shift,
kept it aligned as you dragged it down. Make a copy of this line, press and hold Shift
and drag it down approximately this much.
We'll shorten this line by pressing Ctrl or
Cmd + T to open your Transform Tool. At the top of your screen, you'll see the Width and
the Height which are presently at 100% each. Go to the Width and type in 60%. Since the
chain-link links the width and the height, make sure the chain-link icon isn't clicked on.
Then, press Enter or Return. Make a copy this shorter line, press and hold Shift and
drag it above the top line. Next, I'll show you how to reposition your entire text design
on the background. With your top line active, scroll down to your text layer
and Shift-click on it to highlight all the layers between it and the top line. Press Ctrl or Cmd + G
to place all these layers into a folder.
To raise or lower it, press the Up or Down arrow on your keyboard.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!