Lynda - Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects with Nigel French (Updated Dec 21, 2015)

Lynda.com - Photoshop for Designers: Type Effects with Nigel French (Updated Dec 21, 2015)

Author: Nigel French

Subject: Design

Software: Photoshop

Level: Intermediate

Duration: 5h 31m

Released: Jul 20, 2012

Updated: Dec 21, 2015

This installment of Photoshop for Designers explains how to create beautiful typographic effects and challenges designers to expand their creative mindset with type. Author Nigel French describes how to combine letters and imagery and how to illustrate ideas with type, often with just a few simple tweaks to the letterforms themselves. The final chapter contains a few creative projects, such as fashioning portraits and maps comprised entirely of type.

Topics include:

Illustrating with shape layers, layer masks, and clipping masks

Modifying letterforms

Using a displacement map

Illustrating words

Creating effects such as smoky or fiery type

Working with brushes and type

Warping text

Using a Vanishing Point grid

Incorporating repetition and pattern

Layering type