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1. Introduction: Learn the basics of
Adobe Photoshop's, powerful layer effects, and explore infinite ways
to create with text. Hi, my name is Hattie Linton. I'm a digital artist and ink
illustrator based in England, Art is one of my many passions. And I've used it to create all
kinds of different pieces using different media and
styles over the last few years. Whilst I love to
create with ink and paints and all sorts of
different physical media. Digital art will always be one of my favorite
ways to create. When I create digitally, I mostly use Adobe Photoshop
and Procreate on the iPad. The freedom I get
from digital creation can never be matched. There's also a freedom and experimentation I get
from digital art that I don't get as much
from other media. And one of those I'm gonna be showing you in this class today. In this class we're
going to be exploring ten different layer effects
within Adobe Photoshop. We're going to be looking
at Bevel and Emboss. Stroke, Inner Shadow,
inner glow and outer glow. Satin, color, pattern and gradient
overlays, and drop shadow. Finally, you'll get
the opportunity to create your final
project by combining your favorite effects to make your own unique piece
of typographic art. By the end of this
class, you'll have confidence using layer
effects in Adobe Photoshop. Don't forget at the end
of the class to upload your project or any of your
projects as we go along. I'll be sure to look and comment on every single one I say. Any questions you have, leave them in the
discussion tab. I'll also be providing
downloadable resources for every single mini-project
at the end of each lesson. So you can follow along exactly as you learn each of
these layer effects. I can't wait to see what
you create in this class. Let's dive in.
2. Your Class Projects: Over the course of this class, we will be covering ten
different layer effects within Adobe Photoshop over
seven mini-projects, culminating in one
final class project. In the first mini
project will be creating a bubble font-style
using bevel and emboss. The second project is creating a cartoon font-style using
multiple stroke effects. The third mini
project is to create a paper cut font style using
an inner shadow effect. The fourth project is
creating a neon font style using both Inner Glow
and outer glow effects. The fifth project is to create a psychedelic font style
using the satin effect. The sixth and
penultimate project combines three effects in one, the color overlay,
the gradient overlay, and the pattern overlay to create a unique
pattern font-style. The seventh project is to use multiple drop shadow effects to create a funky
layered font-style. In the very last project, it's over to you using everything that you learned
over all of these effects, over all of these lessons, I want you to create your
very own font style. You can combine, you
can use just one, but learning with all
the different effects and different techniques
within Adobe Photoshop, your final project
will be to create your very own
absolutely unique piece of typographic word art.
3. Before We Get Started: Before we dive in to the lessons and
projects in this class, I just wanted to go over a
couple of things with you, including the format
of this class and some things that
you're going to need before we get started. If you want to follow along. All you need to get started
in this class and to complete the projects is a
copy of Adobe Photoshop. If you didn't have a copy of Adobe Photoshop, don't worry, there's a link to a
seven day free trial in the class description below. This class is broken up into seven lessons and
seven projects, culminating in your
final projects, where it's over to you. In each lesson,
we'll be covering a different layer
effect or set of layer effects for you to
learn, practice with. Then we move on to the next. During each lesson, I will
talk about the effect. Show you how it works, what the different settings
mean within the layer effect. I'll also be sharing my
own personal preferences and settings when I'm
using layer effects. Then in each project, you can either have a go
yourself completely free or you can download my
downloadable resources which you can find in
the projects tab below. And you can follow along exactly as I'm doing it to learn how I create the exact examples
I'm using in each project. The way you want to follow
is entirely up to you. There's no one right
way to take this class. This is to give you the freedom. If you want to have a go
and you want to just have a play, that's absolutely fine. But if you want a
little more confidence to have more of a
practice with me, then you can follow along by using those
downloadable resources that I've provided when
creating typographic art works, font choice is
incredibly important. By choosing the
right font it can make or break your design. Take some of the hard work out
of that in these examples. For every single project that I talk you through in this class, except for your final one, I have provided example fonts for you to follow along exactly. You can find links
to each of these on Google fonts within
the class description. Or I've also created a helpful font cheat sheets in the downloadable resources for you to take a look at as well. If you have any questions about Adobe Photoshop or
the layer effects. Well, the font
choices I'm using, please leave a question in the discussion tab and
I'll answer it. We'll be going over
each layer effects in each lesson along with the
corresponding projects. But just in case
you're completely new to Adobe Photoshop, don't worry, I'm now
going to show you exactly how we add layer
effects to text. Regardless of where
you're adding the effective in your Adobe
Photoshop document. When you go to the Layers panel, locate the layer where you
want to apply the effect. And this example here I have
a rectangle drawn and then double-click on the layer to bring up the Layer
Style Options panel. This is where we can
select any number of layers to apply
our layer effects. Now we are everything you
need to be able to get started in Adobe
Photoshop Layer Effects. Let's dive in.
4. Bevel and Emboss: In this first lesson, we're
going to be looking at the Bevel and Emboss
layer effects. The Bevel and Emboss
effects are used to add rounded edges and shadows
to give a 3D effect. Depending on the type of
bevel or emboss set, the rounded edge might be
inside or outside an object, convex or concave and
may include a shadow. So just to show us all
the different examples, I've just typed out the word
test using a big bold font. And I'm now going to
open up the Layers panel here and select
Bevel and Emboss. So straight away you can see there's lots of
different options here. And I'm now going to talk through what these
different options are, what they mean, and how you
can apply them to your work. So first up we have style. Style. At the top is the style
of the bevel emboss. And there are several
options to choose from. This first one is
called an inner bevel. So this is where
the bevel has been applied inside the
text or shape. If we were to switch
this to an outer bevel, you would see that
the effect has been applied outside of
the texts instead. So this is almost
like a drop shadow. But if we were to just zoom in on this really closely here, you can actually see that
what's happened is it's created a 3D effect on the
outside of these letters. As well as inner bevel
and outer bevel, we also have emboss. So emboss simulates
the effect of embossing the layer contents against
the underlying layers. So at the moment, the
only layer we have underneath is our plain
white background. But this would react
differently if you had it against other colors, other layers, and
other elements. Similarly, we have
Pillow Emboss, which as you can see,
it's created an effect. If we zoom back out, you'll see the effect a
little clearer. You can see it's created this
squished in Pillow Effect. If you imagine if the text had been pushed into something
soft like a marshmallow, it's created this dented
effect around the letters. And that's what a pillow
emboss effect does. And finally, we
have stroke emboss, which won't do anything
to the example that I have set here because we
haven't applied a stroke. But if we had applied a stroke, which we will be covering
in a future lesson, this would apply the
emboss effect to only the stroke and
leaves the text as it is. For technique options,
there are three. We've got smooth, chisel
hard and chisel soft. Smooth as exactly
what it sounds like. It's a very smooth effect. Chisel hard means, if you imagine it's been carved
like with a chisel, it's created this
very harsh effect. And then there's
a softer version, but still called chisel, which when you play with
the other settings, can create a slightly softer
effect than chisel hard. Depth specifies the
depth of the bevel. So this is how far out the 3D effect comes
from your text. So the larger the depth, the harsher the effect. You can also specify the
direction and size of your bevel using these here. So at the moment the
direction is up. So if you imagine
it because it's 3D, it's coming up away
from the page. We can also specify down. So the 3D effect is actually
going down inside the text. Soften, does exactly
what it sounds like. It blurs the effect and
reduces some of the harshness. So if I pull the
soften up here, you can see it starts
to get a little blurry and just a softer effect, but it's still retaining
that 3D effect with the highlights
and the shadows. Speaking of highlights
and shadows, we move on to the second
section called shading. So the angle and the altitude, these two degrees values here
are about the light source. So if you imagine there's a virtual lights
somewhere within this document and it's
being cast onto your text. The angle dictates from which direction the
light is coming from. If we move it around,
you can just see, you can actually see the example in this preview panel here, exactly where the
light is coming from. The Gloss Contour adds the shiny effect to your
bevel and emboss. And we'll be covering contours a lot throughout some
of the other effects. But you can actually change
the shape of the contour. Each of these creates a different effect
within your text. When you combine these with
the size of your effect, how much you soften it, how deep it is, you can create some really interesting effects. The Highlight Mode
and shadow mode specify the blending
mode of the highlight, the lightest part of
your bevel and emboss, and the shadow, the darkest part of your bevel and emboss. Before we move on to our
Bevel and Emboss project, I recommend you
having a play with these settings so you get nice
and comfortable with them.
5. Project One: It's time to take on your
first practice project. For your first mini-project, you're gonna be creating
a 3D bubble font-style using Bevel and Emboss. This is the one
that I've created. I think it's a really
nice soft bubbly effect. And I'm going to show you
exactly how I created this one. If you want to use
the same font as me, install the Rubik Bubbles font from the downloadable resources. Feel free to interpret this
the way that you want. But if you want to
see step-by-step exactly how I created this one, Stay tuned, otherwise, feel free to jump ahead
to the next lesson. Here's how I created
my version of a 3D bubble font using Bevel
and Emboss layer effects. First up, my document is 2000 pixels across
by 1200 pixels high. I've used the Rubik
Bubbles font in a nice blue and the
font is 450 pt. If I open up my
layer effects panel, I can show you the
settings that I used here to create this effect. For the style I used an inner bevel. For
the technique I chose smooth and we have a depth of 600% to really get
it popping out of the page. The direction is up
to show that it's coming up out of the page with a size of 30 pixels and
a soften of ten pixels. In the shading section, we're using an angle of 90 degrees and an
altitude of 30 degrees. And I chose Cove deep
for the Gloss Contour. For Highlight Mode
and shadow mode. I chose white for the
highlights and chose screen for the blend mode
with an opacity of 57%. And I chose this blue
color with multiply for the blend mode at an opacity
of 80% for the shadow mode. And there we have it. That is my version of a bubble effect font in Adobe Photoshop
using Layer Effects. I can't wait to see yours. Don't forget to post it
to the project gallery.
6. Stroke: In this lesson, we're
going to be looking at the stroke layer effect. The stroke layer effect
allows you to add a colored line around an
object or piece of text. You can apply several of these to create interesting effects. I'm now going to
take you through the different layer style options for the stroke effect. So again, we have an Adobe Photoshop document
with the word test in it. I've just colored it
a nice purple and we've opened up our Layer
Style effects panel. And I'm now going to select
stroke from the options here. So straight away you can
see that what this does is it applies a line
around the text. So starting with the options, size is how thick you want
that stroke, stroke TBI. So this one is currently
set to five pixels. If we start increasing it, you can see the stroke
is getting thicker and thicker and then decreasing it, it obviously goes back
to being thinner. The position of the stroke determines where the
stroke begins from. If we select outside, the stroke begins on the
outside of the text. So if I just make
it disappear again, you can actually
see that it's only being applied to the
outside of the text. If I was to select inside, it's only applied
inside the texts. Obviously this is now making
the font look a lot thinner. So again, if we take it away, you can see the text itself
isn't changing size, it's just adding a stroke inside the boundaries
of the letters. If you select center, this is a combination
of the two. It will, the stroke will originate from the edge of
the text and go outwards, inwards at the same time. So for every pixel, it's adding on half a pixel to both the outside and
the inside of the text. Blend mode determines
how a layer blends with the other layers on your
Adobe Photoshop document. At the moment, our document is only our text and a
white background. So this won't do much. But if you were to add a
picture beneath your text, the blend mode would affect how the stroke reacts to that layer. The opacity changes the
opacity of your stroke. So we have a black
stroke at the moment. If we change the opacity,
you'll see it starts, starts to get lighter and that's the same
regardless of the color. So if we were to pick
a blue for the stroke, then as we change the opacity, it would get lighter
and lighter. The fill type gives
you three options. We have color
gradient and pattern. Color lets you select a specific color right
here, as I just showed. So whatever color here, and as you're selecting a color, you can actually see it
changing in your document. Pattern allows you to add
a pattern to your stroke. So obviously, unless your
stroke is incredibly thick, you're not really going
to see the pattern particularly well,
a standard stroke. It's just going to have a
hint of a pattern behind it. But you can select from
any of the patterns within the Adobe
Photoshop Presets. Gradient lets you
pick a gradient. So here we have a very standard
black to white gradient. It's set as a linear one and
the angle is 90 degrees. So you can see this
is actually going from black at the bottom
to white at the top. You could change this to 270 degrees to make
it go the other way, or you can click this
reverse button here. You can also set it as
a radial gradients, so it starts in the
middle and goes out. You can change the
scale of the gradient, so make that center part bigger. There's a lot of
different options here and we'll be
covering gradients and a lot more detail in the Gradient Overlay
less than later. So I'm just going to switch
back to color for a second so that we can talk about
applying multiple strokes. So not every layer can do this, but you can say that next
to stroke in a shadow, color and gradient
overlay and drop shadow. There are these
little plus button. And that means that
you can actually apply multiple strokes
to the same layer. You could also remove additional strokes if you've got too many by clicking on
this dustbin icon, which says delete effect
in the bottom right. The most important thing
to consider when applying multiple strokes is the order of the strokes in your
layer style panel. So I wanted to apply to different strokes to
this piece of text. We've got the strokes here. I want the first one
to be a white stroke. So I'm going to set this
top one here is white. And then I want there
to be another black one running around the edge. So we just need to make
sure that the white one is above the black
one as shown here. At the moment, we can't see the black stroke because it's being masked by the white one. So we need to increase the size. At the moment the
white stroke is at ten pixels and so as
the black stroke, but if we start to
increase the black stroke, you can see that the black
line is starting to appear. If we apply this to 20 pixels, we now have a white one at ten pixels and a
black one at ten pixels. This is also the same for applying to different positions. So if we set the first
position to inside, we've then got ten
pixels going inside the text and 20 pixels
going outside the text. Or we could set them
both to center. Then you've actually
got a line that then has a stroke on both
sides showing through. Same as before. I recommend you
having a play with these settings before we
move on to the project.
7. Project Two: Now it's time for
your second project. For your second
practice project, you're going to be creating
a cartoon font-style using multiple stroke effects. So this is the one that I have created and I'm about to
talk through how I did it. But if you want to create
one in this style, this is using the
Luckiest Guy font, which is available
to download in the downloadable resources
section of this class. Feel free to have a
play by yourself. But if you want to see
step-by-step exactly how I created this one, Stay tuned. Otherwise, feel free to
jump to the next lesson. So here is the setup
and settings that I use to create this
cartoon font-style. First up, my document
size is again 2000 across
by 1200 pixels high. I've chosen red for
the color of the font, this time using the
Luckiest Guy font to get this cool, quirky
cartoon style. Once again, the
font is 450pt. So jumping into
the layer effects to get this effects
hair around the edge, you might think that
I've chosen to add five strokes since
it goes black, white, black, white, black. But I've actually done
this using three. So each stroke
is on a position of center with a normal blend
mode and 100% opacity. The first stroke is five
pixels wide and black. The second stroke is 15
pixels wide and white. And the third stroke is
30 pixels wide and black. And because these are working
off the center position, That's how we have created this effect that it
looks like there are five strokes when
there's actually three. There we have it. Those are
the settings that I chose to use to create this
cartoon font style. I can't wait to see what
you create in this project. Don't forget to upload it
to the project gallery.
8. Inner Shadow: In this lesson, we're
going to be looking at the inner shadow effect. The inner shadow layer
effect allows you to add a shadow inside
of an element, shape or text item. This can create
interesting effects, including 3D effects. There are a lot of
settings related to inner shadow within
Adobe Photoshop. So let's dive straight
in by double-clicking on our test text
layer and pulling up the layer effects panel
and clicking on inner shadow. Blend mode determines how the shadow blends with
the color of the text. As well as which blend mode, you can also select the color of the shadow. For colors darker
than your texts color, you'll mostly want
these five here: Darken, multiply, color, burn, linear burn, or darker color. For shadow colors lighter
than your text color, you're going to mostly
want lighten Screen, Color Dodge, Linear Dodge Add,
and lighter color. As you can see, there are loads more options that can affect both the color of your shadow and how it blends with
the color of your text. So I recommend you have a
play with these options. Opacity affects the
transparency of the shadow. A higher value creates a much harsher effect
within your shadow. Angle works the same as we
saw in bevel and emboss. It controls the angle
of your shadow. Distance relates to how
far away the shadow is from the edge of your
texts as specified in the direction of your angle. Choke shrinks the boundaries of the matte of an inner
shadow prior to blurring. And size is the radius of
the blur of the shadow. Contour works again just like we saw in
bevel and emboss. It indicates the shape the
shadow takes and it progresses away from your texts in the direction angle
you specified above. So again, each of these options creates a very
different effect. The noise specifies
the number of random elements in the
opacity of the shadow. If you're looking for
a very smooth shadow, you'll want this setting at 0. Don't forget to have
a practice with these settings before we
move on to the project.
9. Project Three: Now it's time for your
third practice project using Adobe Photoshop
layer effects. For your third practice project, you'll be creating a
paper cutout font style using an inner shadow effect. If you want to use the
same font I've used here, just download the
Yellowtail font from the downloadable resources
tab on this class. If you want to see step-by-step exactly how I created this one, stay tuned. Otherwise, feel free to jump
to the next lesson. Here are the settings I use to create this paper
cut out font-style. To start off, my
document is again 2000 pixels across
by 1200 pixels high. I've chosen this
yellowtail font in this very pretty
coral pink. And because this
font is actually traditionally a lot
smaller than other fonts, I've got the font
size is 700 pt. So jumping into our
layer effects panel for the inner shadow effects, I've still kept the shadow
as the default black, but I've used color burn for
the blend modes so that it reacts with the pink underneath to create this red shadow. I've also downed the
opacity to 80%. The angle is set at a 116
degrees with a distance of 18 pixels, a choke of 35% and
a size of 20 pixels. For the contour, I've chosen this Gaussian contour to give it a slightly softer
and more rounded look. And because I want to
keep it nice and smooth, I set the noise to 0%. And there we have it. That is my interpretation of a paper cutout font-style using Adobe Photoshop
Layer Effects. I'm really looking
forward to seeing how you interpret this. Don't forget to post your
project to the project gallery.
10. Inner Glow and Outer Glow: In this lesson,
we're going to be looking at two layer effects, Inner Glow and Outer Glow. The inner glow effect
adds a color border to the inside of an object
or piece of text. And the outer glow effect as a soft color border
to the outside, leaving the inside unaffected. You can combine both of these
effects together to make very interesting all
over glow effects. The settings for Inner
Glow and outer glow are understandably very
similar to each other. If we open up our
layer effects panel, we select the Inner Glow
and you can see straight away a glow has been
added inside of our text. If we select outer glow, even though we have settings
and the effect enabled, we can't really see
it at the moment. So I'm just going to unlock my background layer
by double-clicking, which converts it to
a standard layer. And I'm going to select black, and I'm just going to fill our background layer
with black so we can see the full effect
that our outer glow is having. So back in the layers panel, now that we can see our
outer glow a little better. As we switch between Inner
Glow and outer glow, we can see that the effects are actually incredibly
similar to each other. Blend mode works the same as
it did in earlier lessons. It dictates the way the
color you select for your Inner Glow interacts
with the color of the text. And the color that
you select for your outer glow reacts to the color of your background or whichever layer is
beneath your text. Opacity controls the
transparency of the effect. So a higher value makes it less transparent and a lower value
makes it more transparent. Noise specifies the number of random elements
inside the opacity. If you want a very smooth glow, you want this to be
a much lower number, even as far as 0. But if you want more
added noise to it, you up the value. In the elements section, the only differences are the Inner Glow has
source and choke, while Outer Glow has spread. For technique options, there
are two: softer and precise. This is currently a
softer outer glow. And this is what a more
precise Outer Glow looks like. So you can see it's
coming off our text and our inner glow with a
little more harshness. Source within Inner Glow has two options, center and edge. These work like the
position options in stroke. Edge means that the Inner Glow stems from the edge of the text. Whereas Center means that glow originates from the
center of the text. Choke shrinks the boundaries of the matte of the glow
prior to blurring. And size is the radius
of a blur of the glow. The contour affects the shape of the pattern created
by the effect, just like it does in Bevel
and Emboss and inner shadow. As we select different contours, we can see how this affects
the shape of the Inner Glow. And the same with
the outer glow. The range controls
which portion or range of the glow is
targeted by the contour. Finally, jitter
like noise varies the application of a
gradient's color and opacity. Don't forget to have a
practice with both of the effects before we
move on to the project: creating a neon font style.
11. Project Four: Now it's time for your
fourth practice project, creating a neon font style. For your fourth
practice project, you're going to be creating
a neon font style using both the Inner Glow and the
outer glow layer effects. If you want to use the
same font I've used here, download the Pacifico
Google font from the downloadable
resources in this class. If you want to see
step-by-step exactly how I created this one, Stay tuned. Otherwise, feel free to jump
ahead to the next lesson. Here's how I created this neon glow font-style using Adobe Photoshop
Layer Effects. First off, my document is 2000 pixels across
by 1200 pixels high. But this time I've used black
for the background color, so we can really get the
full effect of the glow. I've chosen this very loopy
smooth font called Pacifico, which is actually one of my
personal favorite fonts. I use it in so many projects
I can hardly count. I chose this very
bright green for the font color to really
answer that neon effect. As before, the font
size is 450 pt. As we jump into the
layer effects panel, I will go through the
Inner Glow Effects first. So the color of the glow
I have set is white with a blend mode of screen so that some of the green is
still coming through, but it's not completely green. I've also downed the
opacity to 75 per cent. And because I want
it nice and smooth, the noise is set to 0. For the technique I've selected
softer and the source is the center to show that the glow is coming from the
middle of the word. I've set the choke to 13%
and size to 21 pixels. For the contour, I've chosen the Cove deep contour to keep it nice and
smooth throughout. I've chosen a range of 40%
with no jitter. Again, to keep it a
nice smooth effect. For the outer glow, I've actually chosen
the exact same green as is the color of the text. So that it really
looks like it's those letters that are
glowing out away from them. The blend mode is
lighter color to make it react with
the black underneath. I've knocked the opacity right
down to 50%. The noise is again 0%
to keep it nice and smooth. And I've also set the
technique to softer. Again, to make it
nice and smooth. I have the spread set at 20%
and the size is 60 pixels with a linear contour, 50% range and no Jetta. There we have it. That's
my interpretation of a neon glow font style using Adobe Photoshop
Layer Effects. I'm really looking
forward to seeing your neon glow effects. Don't forget to post your
project to the project gallery.
12. Satin: In this lesson, we're going
to be looking at one of the more unusual Adobe
Photoshop layer effects. Satin. The satin
layer effect duplicates the layer twice and then offsets and blurs them to produce
the final result. There aren't as many
layer effect options within the satin layer effect as there are within others. But that just as important
as any other layer effect. As we open the layer effects
style we select satin, these are our layer
effect options. Blend mode works
exactly the same as it has in the
previous lessons. It dictates the way the
color you select here for your sat in effect, interacts with the color
of your text or shape. As a reminder, for colors
darker than your texts color, you'll mostly want darken, multiply, color, burn, linear
burn, or darker color. For lighter colors,
you're going to mostly want lighten,
screen, color dodge, linear dodge,
or lighter color. But as I mentioned before, there are tons of options here that all have brilliant results. So it's definitely
worth having a play. The opacity controls
the strength of the transparency
of your layer effect. The angle determines
the angle at which the offset is occurring
within your effect. The distance specifies
the distance of the offset for
the satin effect. A distance of one which is the lowest value we
can put for this, means that the
offset is directly against the texts at the moment. This text is actually purple, but the offset we have set
for the satin is black. So all we can see at the
moment is black text. As we increase the distance, the offset is moved
away from the edge of the text in the direction
of specified in the angle. And we can start to see the
purple coming back through. If you consider this the
origin of the effect, where the distance has landed
and then increase the size. The effect spans out and grows
from that offset position. Finally, the contour works just like it did in
the previous lessons. It affects the shape of the pattern created
by the effect. It allows you to sculpt
the ridges, valleys, and bumps that are shaded in your satin effect Satin is definitely one of
the more unusual Adobe Photoshop layer effects. Don't forget to have a
practice before we move on to our next video, your project.
13. Project Five: Now it's time to take on your
fifth practice projects. Feel fifth practice project, you're going to be creating
a psychedelic font-style using the satin effect. If you want to use
the same font as me, install the righteous font from the downloadable
resources in this class. If you want to see step-by-step exactly how I created this one, Stay tuned, otherwise, feel free to jump to the next lesson. Here's the setup and settings
that I used to create this psychedelic effect using Adobe Photoshop layer effects. I really wanted to use the
word psychedelic for this one, but it's a very long word. The document size for
this one is actually 2500 pixels across
by 1200 pixels high. I've chosen this font
called righteous, because I found that
the rounded letters really added to this whole psychedelic hippie vibe
that I was going for. I picked a bright yellow
for the main color. And the font is at 450 pt. So let's dive into the
layer effect panel and see what I've done in there
to create this effect. Within the satin
layer effect, I chose a very warm burnt
orange for the satin offset. And I set the blend mode
to color burn so that it really blends into the
yellow very nicely. I also knocked the opacity
back a little bit down to 85%. I set the angle for the
offset at 140 degrees. I set the distance at 55 pixels. I set the size to 20 pixels, and I chose this contour, the ring contour,
to really give the effect a lot of
variation and interest. There we have it. Those are the settings
that I use to create this psychedelic
font-style using Adobe Photoshop Layer Effects. I'm looking forward to seeing
how you interpreted this. Don't forget to post your
project to the project gallery.
14. Color, Gradient and Pattern Overlays: In this lesson, we're
going to be looking at three different
layer effects. The color overlay,
the gradient overlay, and the pattern overlay. These three layer effects work in a similar
way to each other. They fill the latest content
with either a color, a gradient, or a pattern. Combining this with
different blend modes can yield very creative results. For this lesson I'll mostly be demonstrating these
effects on grey text. You can see the full
effect of the color, the gradient, and the pattern. Obviously, you can still apply these effects too
colorful pieces of text. This is just an easy way to
demonstrate how it works. So opening up our
layer effects panel, we have our three
overlay options. Here we have color overlay, we have gradient overlay, and we have Pattern Overlay. Starting with the color overlay, there is just one simple
set of options for this, which is to select the color, the blend mode, and the opacity. If I was to select
something nice and bright like this red. Depending on which
blend mode we use, that red has a
different effect on the gray underneath, as
well as the blend mode. We can change the opacity
of the blending mode, making it lighter or darker. Moving on to the gradient
overlay, these are our options. Again as before, the blend mode and the opacity work
in the exact same way. Depending on which gradient
you have selected. Your blend mode will affect
the grey color underneath. Your opacity will determine the strength of
that blend effect. You can set the gradient here by either using
this drop-down and selecting from a
number of presets which have been organized
into color groups. Or you can click on the gradient itself and bring up
the gradient editor. I love using the gradient
editor because it gives me a lot more control over
which gradient I'm creating. You can start with with
one that already exists, such as this one here. And you can edit the
colors directly. Alternatively, you can click
anywhere that's free and add additional color points
within your gradient. You can use this to then slowly create any gradient you
like, such as here. I'm going to create a rainbow. So here you can see I've created a rainbow using the
Gradient Editor. I can still move the
colors around and you can see this preview happening on
the text as it's happening. I'm just going to
space these out, make them a little more even. And now we have
a rainbow gradient. You can save your
custom gradient if you want to use it
over and over again by naming it here
and clicking on New. This adds your
gradient to the bottom of the default options. Reverse flips the
orientation of the gradient. Angle lets you edit the
angle of the gradient. And scale lets you control
the size of the gradient. Style specifies the
shape of the gradient. Linear is a simple
line Gradient. Radial stems out from a
central point in a circle. Angle begins at the angle
that you've specified below. Then moves in a clockwise or
counterclockwise direction, depending on if you've
selected reverse. Reflected works like linear, but it goes in two directions. And finally, diamond
works just like radial, except instead of stemming
out from a circle, it stems out from a diamond shape. Our third and final effect for this lesson is the
pattern overlay. We've already gone over
blend mode and opacity. Many times. They work the exact same way as they do in color and gradient. Here we can select
the pattern that we want to overlay onto our text. You can select a pattern the same way you select a gradient by clicking on the icon itself
or on the drop-down menu. Adobe Photoshop comes pre-loaded with a small selection
of patterns. Here we have some
different tree options. There's some here under
the category of grass, and we have some under
the category of water. I've actually created for
simple black and white patterns for you to install onto your
copy of Adobe Photoshop. You can download them from the Resources tab in this class. You can add them to your program by clicking on this cog settings icon here and selecting
Import patterns. Then in your Download section, you can then select the
HattieLintonPatterns.pat file and click Open. This will add a new
folder at the bottom of your options called
HattieLintonPatterns. And here I've given you four
patterns, some stripes, some dots, triangles,
and diamonds. Once you've picked
the pattern you want, you can edit the opacity
and the blend mode, the angle at which the
pattern is applied, and the scale for the size. Just like you do
in other effects. If you want to combine
color, gradient and pattern, or any of them together
in any combination, you need to consider how
they blend together. I selected the rainbow
gradient here, as well as our stripy
pattern overlay. And because we have blend modes in both or different opacities, we are able to get these two
to interact with each other. If this gradient was set at
normal with an opacity of 100 and the pattern is set at normal with
an opacity of 100, you will only see the gradient because it is above
the pattern overlay. So be sure if you're combining different
effects together, which I encourage you
to do for your project. You will need to consider
changing the blend mode, the opacity, and more
to create an effect. As ever, I suggest you
practice, play and experiment. If I could show you
every combination of color, gradient, pattern, and blend modes, I would, but that video would last for
hours and hours and hours. The best thing you
can do is within your layer effects,
keep playing, keep messing around with
the settings until you find something that
you particularly love. All three of those overlays
may seem very similar, but as you've seen, they can create wildly different effects. And particularly when
you combine them, don't forget to have a practice before we move on
to the project.
15. Project Six: It's time to put those pattern, gradient and color
overlay skills to use in your sixth practice project. For your sixth practice project, you're going to be creating
a unique pattern style font using any combination you like of the color overlay,
the gradient overlay, and the pattern
overlay layer effects. This is the one I created. I only used the Gradient Overlay in the pattern overlay
to create this. But feel free to interpret
this in any way you like. If you want to use
the same font as me, install the fascinate font from the downloadable
resources in this class. If you want to see step-by-step exactly how I created this one. Stay tuned, otherwise, feel free to jump ahead to
the next lesson. Here's the setup and settings
that I use to create this unique pattern
font-style using Adobe Photoshop layer
effects. The document size for this one is 2000 pixels
across by 1200 pixels high. And I've chosen
this fascinate font because I wanted something
that was really blocky, but still pretty so that enough of the pattern
could be shown through. The font size is 450 pt. And the color behind this gradient effect
is a very mid gray. So we could really get full
effect of the gradient. So let's dive into
the layer effects to see what I changed here. For the gradient overlay, I've chosen overlay for
the blend mode with a 100% opacity because I really wanted the color to come through as
much as possible. I've chosen this gradient, which you can find inside the purple folder
towards the end. I chose a linear style
with an angle of 0 so that it's running straight across as it shows in the
preview from orange to purple. Finally, I have the
scale set to 100%. Now onto the pattern overlay. I've chosen one of
my own patterns, the diagonal dots pattern. I set the blend mode to divide so that the
pattern comes through as this very pale
reactive white dot rather than the black dots
that was already set. I've also knocked the
opacity back to 60% to make it really subtle. I was very happy with
the angle because the dots were already
on the diagonal. So I have the angle set at 0 degrees but I did increase
the size of the dots. So the scale is at 210 per cent. And there we have it. Those are the settings
that I use to create this unique pattern font style using Adobe Photoshop
layer effects. Really looking forward to seeing how you interpreted this, don't forget to post your
project to the project gallery.
16. Drop Shadow: This final lesson,
we're going to be looking at the drop
shadow layer effects. The drop shadow
layer effect does exactly what it sounds like. It offsets the shadow
beneath the shape or text to give the illusion of 3D. Let's take a look
at the settings associated with drop shadows. The drop shadow is
the final effect You can find it in your
layer effects panel. You can set the color
of your shadow here. Along with the opacity
and the blend mode To react to any of the colors directly
beneath your shadow. The angle you set determines the
direction in which the shadow falls
away from your text. Now you've selected the direction
with the angle setting. You can set how far
away from your text the shadow is using
the distance. You can also set the size
and the spread of the blur. The contour works just like
it does in the other effects. Choosing a different
contour makes a different effect
on your shadow. Just like in the stroke effect, you can apply more than
one drop shadow to your layer by clicking
on this plus button. Having multiple shadows with different distances can create
very interesting effects. The same positioning
rules apply for drop shadow as they
do for stroke. The order in which you place
them makes a difference. If this drop shadow had a much further distance
than the one below, it wouldn't create
as strong an effect as if they were the
correct way around. Then we have our
10th layer effect. Don't forget to have
a practice with the drop shadow settings before
moving onto the project.
17. Project Seven: It's now time to take on your seventh and last
practice projects before we move on to
your main class project. For your seventh
practice project, you're going to be creating
a layered font style using the drop
shadow layer effect. If you want to use
the same font as me, install the Staatliches font from the downloadable resources. If you want to see step-by-step exactly how I created this one. Keep watching otherwise, feel free to jump into
the next lesson. Here are the settings and
set up that I use to create this very funky layered
rainbow font-style. Our document is 2000 pixels across by 1200 pixels down. And I've chosen this Staatliches
font because it's very blocky and it's exactly
what I wanted to be reflected in all those
shadows underneath. I chose a very
happy soft red for this because I knew I wanted
to create a rainbow effect, but I didn't want
it to be that very bright, garish,
bright, bright red. The font size is 450 pt. And we're ready to dive into the layer effects to
see how I created this. I created this effect by adding five drop shadows to my text. Each one in a different
color of the rainbow. So on all of them, the angle is set
at 130 degrees. The spread and the size is 0 because I want that
very hard line shadow. The contour is linear
and there is no noise. I've also set the blend mode as normal and the opacity at
100% for every level. The only differences
between each of these drop shadows is the
color and the distance. For the first drop shadow: I've got it set to this
very warm golden orange with a distance of 30 pixels. The second drop shadow is yellow with a distance of 60 pixels. The third drop shadow is green with a distance
of 90 pixels. The fourth one is blue with
a distance of 120 pixels. And the fifth one is
pink with a distance of 150 pixels. And there we have it. That is my funky rainbow
layered font-style using Adobe Photoshop
Layer Effects. Can't wait to see how you
interpreted this project. Don't forget to post your
project to the project gallery.
18. Your Final Project: Well done on finishing
these lessons and making it to
the final project. Over this class, we
have been covering different ways to add different
kinds of layer effects. We've looked at 3D effects
such as a bevel and emboss, inner shadow and outer shadow. Creative effects
including stroke, Inner Glow and outer glow. And colorful effects
including overlays and satin. Now it's over to you to
create your favorite effect, whether it's one effect on its own that we've learned
during this class. Or if it's combining
several together, It's entirely up to you. I want you to really
have a think about your font choices and your effects together to create your own unique piece
of typographic art. I really encourage you to keep playing with Adobe Photoshop. Experiment with different fonts, colors, layer effect settings, combining things together
and have a look at some of the other effects and filters built within Adobe Photoshop. It's an incredibly
powerful piece of software and it's so much fun. And I can really attest from my own personal experience that playing with Adobe Photoshop really is one of the
best ways to learn is. Now it's over to you. Create your piece
of typographic art. And don't forget to post it inside the project gallery
for everyone to see. I cannot wait to see
what you create.
19. Final Thoughts: Congratulations and thank
you so much for taking my class on Adobe
Photoshop layer effects. I really hope you've enjoyed learning about all these
different effects. How to combine them
and putting them into different typographic
pieces of art. Over this class, we have covered ten different layer effects
with over seven lessons, seven mini-projects culminating
in your final project. I really hope you've
enjoyed taking this class. I have had so much fun
putting it together. And I'm really looking
forward to creating more classes like this for you. So if you have any feedback, please leave a review, leave a comment in the
discussion tab. I'd love to hear from
you, my students. Don't forget to also post
your favorite projects or projects in the
project gallery. And I promised to look at and comment on every
single one of them.
Hattie Linton, Digital Artist and Ink Illustrator
