.351 Putting type in a spot color channel .352 20 is worth a thousand pictures,” but in Photoshop, where you can do such artful things with type, the line between pictures and words i
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paintings
In the instructions on this page, you’ll turn a photo
into a drawing by reducing it to lines and then
paint-ing on the filter mask On the next page, you’ll turn a
photo into a watercolor by applying a series of filters
We hope these exercises will inspire you to develop
your own formulas
To turn a photo into a tinted drawing:
1 Duplicate an image layer in a high-resolution
photo.A
2 Choose Filter > Stylize > Find Edges B
3 Choose the Brush tool. Choose a large, Soft
Round brush, Normal mode, and an Opacity
below 50% on the Options bar Also make the
Foreground color black
4 Click the Add Layer Mask button on the
Layers panel, then with the layer mask thumbnail
selected, apply strokes to the image to reveal
areas of the underlying layer
5 Do either or both of the following optional steps:
Lower the opacity of the duplicate layer
Change the blending mode of the duplicate layer
(try Lighter Color, Hard Light, Pin Light, or
Luminosity mode).C–D
C This is the Layers panel for the image shown
at right.
D We applied brush strokes to the layer mask to reveal some
of the underlying image, and changed the blending mode of the duplicate layer to Hard Light.
A We duplicated the Background in this original image.
B We applied the Find Edges filter
to the duplicate layer.
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A This is the original photo.
B This watercolor was created by following the steps
above.
C This is the result of using Photoshop’s Artistic >
Watercolor filter We think it’s a bit harsh compared to the results of our steps, as shown at left.
There are so many ways to combine filters In these
instructions, you’ll turn an image into a watercolor
by applying the Median and Minimum filters — two
filters that you probably wouldn’t ordinarily use A
medium- to light-toned image would work best for
this exercise
To turn a photo into a watercolor:
1 Duplicate an image layer, then right-click the
duplicate and choose Convert to Smart Object
Keep the new layer selected.A
2 Choose Filter > Noise > Median In the Median
dialog, choose a Radius value between 2 and 8,
then click OK
3 Choose Filter > Other > Minimum In the
Minimum dialog, choose a value that produces
a pleasing simulation of a watercolor; click OK
4. Optional: Choose Filter > Sharpen > Smart
Sharpen, click Basic, try an Amount of 80–100%
and a Radius of 4–8 px, then click OK.B–C
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IN THIS CHAPTER
Creating editable type 336
Selecting type 338
Recoloring type 339
Changing the font family and style 339 Converting type 340
Importing type from Illustrator into Photoshop as a Smart Object .340
Changing the font size 341
Applying kerning and tracking 342
Adjusting the leading 343
Changing the type style 344
Shifting type from the baseline .344
Applying paragraph settings 345
Transforming the bounding box for paragraph type 346
Using the Warp Text command 347
Rasterizing type 348
Filling type with imagery 348
Making type fade 350
Screening back type 351 Putting type in a spot color channel 352
20
is worth a thousand pictures,” but in
Photoshop, where you can do such
artful things with type, the line
between pictures and words is blurred
(sometimes literally!).In this chapter, you’ll
learn how to create and select editable type and apply a
wide assortment of character and paragraph attributes
You’ll also learn some tricks, such as how to transform,
warp, fade, and screen back type, and how to fill it
with imagery Finally, you will learn how to put type
in a spot color channel
When you use the Horizontal Type tool or Vertical
Type tool, a new layer appears on the Layers panel
and editable type appears in the document You can
easily change the font, style, size, or color of
edit-able type, and such settings as the kerning, tracking,
leading, alignment, and baseline shift Moreover, you
can transform, warp, or apply layer effects to editable
type, change its blending mode, and change its opacity
and fill values To style type, you’ll use the Character
panel (shown below in A), the Paragraph panel
(on page 345), and the Options bar (A, next page)
Note: To apply some kinds of edits to type, such as
filters or brush strokes, or to fill type with a gradient
or pattern by using the Fill command, the type layer
must be rasterized first However, you can’t have your
cake and eat it, too: Once type is rasterized, you can’t
edit its character attributes, such as the font, or its
paragraph attributes, such as the alignment
Font
Family
Kerning
Vertical
Scale
Baseline
Shift
Type Styles
Anti-aliasing
A Character panel attributes can be applied to all
the type on a layer or to select characters or words.
Font Size
Font Style Leading Tracking Horizontal Scale
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Creating editable type
Because editable type automatically appears on its
own layer, it can be edited, moved, transformed,
warped, restacked, etc., without affecting any other
layers You can be very casual about where you
position editable type initially and about which
typographic attributes you choose for it, because
it’s so easy to move and edit
To create an editable type layer:
1 Choose the Horizontal Type tool or Vertical
Type tool (T or Shift-T)
2 On the Options bar, Ado all of the following:
Choose a font family, and from the adjacent
menu, choose a font style A sample of each
font displays on the menu
Choose or enter a font size (you can use the
scrubby slider)
Choose an anti-aliasing method: Sharp
(sharpest), Crisp (somewhat sharp), Strong
(heavier), or Smooth (smoothest) Photoshop
will introduce partially transparent pixels along
the edges of the characters to make them look
smoother With anti-aliasing off (None), the
edges of the type will be jagged; this is the best
option for Web output.B–C
Click an alignment button to align point type
relative to your original insertion point or to
B With Anti-aliasing off, type edges
look jagged.
C With Anti-aliasing on, type edges look smoother.
A The Options bar offers many controls for the type tools.
Tool Preset picker
Text Orientation Font Family Font Style Font Size Alignment
Anti-aliasing method
Show or hide the Character and Paragraph panel group
Text Color
Warp Text
*If your project requires you to typeset a fair amount of text, it may be more efficient to create the imagery in Photoshop and add the
type in a layout or Web page creation program.
align paragraph type to the left edge, right edge, or center of the bounding box (see also page 345)
Click the Text Color swatch, then choose a
color from the Color Picker or the Swatches panel, or click a color in the document
3 Do either of the following:
To create point type (suitable for a small
amount of text), click in the document to establish an insertion point, then type the desired text You can press Enter/Return to create line breaks, where necessary, to prevent the type from disappearing off the edge of the canvas (You can also move the type later with the Move tool.)
To create paragraph type (suitable for a larger
block of text*), drag a marquee to define a bounding box for the type to fit into, then type the desired text Let the words wrap naturally
to the edges of the bounding box; press Enter/
Return only when you need to start a new para-graph If you prefer to specify dimensions for the bounding box, Alt/Option click in the docu-ment, then enter dimensions in the Paragraph Text Size dialog
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4 To accept the new text, press Enter on the keypad
(not on the main keyboard) or click the Commit
button on the right end of the Options bar
(To cancel the type, press Esc or click the Cancel
button on the Options bar.) Each time you use
the Horizontal or Vertical Type tool, Photoshop
creates a new layer automatically.A–B
Note: Photoshop uses the vector outlines for a
typeface when resizing editable type, when saving
the file to the PDF and EPS formats, and when
outputting it to a PostScript printer Like vector
graphics, editable type outputs at the printer
resolution, not at the file resolution
➤ You can right-click an editable type layer name
and choose a different anti-aliasing method from
the context menu
➤ In Edit/Photoshop > Preferences > Type, from the
Font Preview Size menu, you can turn font menu
A After typing the first word shown at left, we pressed Enter/Return to start the second word on the next line.
B Editable type layers have a T in the thumbnail
and are named automatically by the first word or
few words of type they contain.
previewing on or off and change the preview size for the Font menu If previewing is on but it’s working too slowly on your machine, turn it off
➤ For documents in Bitmap, Indexed Color, and Multichannel color mode, type appears on the Background, not on a layer, and cannot be edited
➤ If you prefer not to establish new default Options bar settings for your type tool, click or drag with the tool in the document before choosing settings for it
➤ If you place individual phrases, words, or char-acters on separate layers, you’ll be able to move them around and apply effects to them individu-ally If your type layers start to overpopulate, on the other hand, you can periodically delete any layers that you don’t need and gather the ones you do want to preserve into layer groups
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Selecting type
Before you can change the character or paragraph
attributes of type or make any copy changes, you
have to select the characters to be edited You can
edit either all the type on a layer or a series of
sequential characters or words
To select type for editing or style changes:
1 Do any of the following:
To highlight characters for editing, click a type
layer, choose the Horizontal Type tool or
Vertical Type tool (T or Shift-T), click in the
type to create an insertion point, then drag
across characters or words to select them.AFor
other methods, see the sidebar on this page
To select all the type on a layer, and to make the
type controls available on the Options bar, with
any tool selected, double-click the T icon on the
Layers panel (The Horizontal Type tool will also
become selected, if it was the last type tool you
had selected.)
To change the attributes of all the type on a layer
via the Character or Paragraph panel, such as
the scale, tracking, leading, style, or alignment,
simply click the layer (you don’t need to select a
type tool)
2 After performing text edits or after changing the
type attributes via the Options bar, to commit to
the changes, do one of the following:
Click the Commit button on the Options bar
Press Enter on the keypad (not on the main
keyboard)
Click a different tool
Click a different layer
(To cancel your editing changes before
commit-ting to them, click the Cancel button on the
Options bar or press Esc.)
➤ To move type to a different location in the
docu-ment, click the type layer, click the Move tool
or hold down Ctrl/Cmd, then drag the type
➤ To delete selected type, press Backspace/Delete
on the keyboard Or to delete one character at a
time, click with a type tool to create an insertion
point, then press Backspace/Delete
SELECTING TYPE CHARACTERS
To select type for copy editing or restyling, choose the Horizontal Type or Vertical Type tool, then do any of the following:
Select consecu-tive characters
or words
Drag across them Or click
at the beginning of a series of words, then Shift-click at the end
Select a word Double-click a word Select
consecu-tive words
Double-click a word, then drag (without releasing the mouse)
Select a line Triple-click a line Select a
paragraph
Quadruple-click in the paragraph
Select all the characters in the type object
Double-click the T
thumb-nail on the Layers panel;
or click in the text, then press Ctrl-A/Cmd-A
A Drag across the characters to be selected.