Besides choosing your font, color and size, there are many things you can do to manipulate text in Photoshop. In this exercise your will create a composition of text elements on a document that is Preset size of WEB: 1152 x 864 pixels and apply all of the following techniques.

You can copy and paste randomly generated “dummy text” by going to www.lipsum.com.

Leading

Create a block of text where the spaces between each line are very small or where each line slightly overlaps with the next.

• This is set by adjusting the leading in the character palette.

Transform

Rotate text to a random angle

• Rotate by choosing: Edit menu / Transform / Free Transform
OR


• Edit menu / Transform / Rotate

Rasterize & Transform

Convert a text layer into a raster layer. Then distort it into perspective.

• Begin with very large text
• Rasterize by choosing: Layer menu / Rasterize / Type
• Distort into perspective by choosing: Edit menu / Transform / Distort OR
• Distort/Warp by choosing: Edit menu / Transform / Warp

1. Create some text where the letters are very close together
2. Create some text where the letters are far apart
• This is set by adjusting the tracking in the character palette

Warped Text

Apply the “Create Warped Text” to a text layer

• Select the text tool then look for the Warp Text button in your options at the top of your screen

Custom Brushes

Create a custom brush with scatter using some text

1. Convert a text layer into a raster layer
2. select the part you want to be used as the brush
3. choose: Edit menu / Define Brush
4. Name your brush
5. Explore brush options similar to the "grass growing" brush. Select a painting tool and explore Color Dynamics, Scattering, and Shape Dyanamics

Layer Mask

• Apply a layer mask to a text layer
• Small text masked by large text

1. Text within text (using a layer mask)
2. A custom brush - used it in a way that doesn't look like a text layer
3. Distorted Text (Rasterize first, then, Edit >Tranform)
4. Warped Text 1 - using the Warped Text option
5. Warped Text 2 - using the Rasterize function, then, Edit Transform
6. Very small leading