Photoshop Skills Log

David Park

Creating Text
1) I selected the text tool.

2) I drew a suitably sized text box. 4) I then selected the size and font I wanted. 3) I wrote out my desired text 5) Finally, I chose my desired colour.

Manipulating Text

Photoshop has all sorts of different effects which can be applied to text. It is achieved by clicking on Filter and then on Artistic.

You must then select a design option from this screen, and then Photoshop will add the effect to the text, as seen on the right.

Creating Fire Text

3) I then duplicated my text layer by right clicking and selecting duplicate

1) I made a new document with a black background 2) Then I rasterized the text to make it more like an image than text.

4) I rotated the canvas 90 degrees clockwise so I could apply a text effect to start making my fire effect

5) I selected my text, then went to filter stylize wind to start my fire effect on my text

6) I selected a blast effect from the left, to leave a nice base to build a fire effect on

7) I rotated the image back and merged my Fire text layer with a copy of my background layer

8) I added a blur of radius 1.8 to my text

9) I marquee selected my text and then went filter -> liquify. This allowed me to brush my text out and distort the tops to look like flames.

10) I clicked on the circle to add an adjustment layer, then chose hue/saturation and set saturation to maximum and the hue to -32

11) I unhid my copy of the fire text and added a gradient overlay to it to blend it with the fire effect 12) The finished text

Cutting out an Image From a White Background Using the Magnetic Lasso Tool

1) I opened the image I wanted to cut out in Photoshop 2) Then I held my mouse button down on the lasso tool, and selected magnetic lasso tool from the options

3) I then carefully traced around the image with the magnetic lasso tool

4) I then selected the inverse of my current selection

5) I noticed there was a small error at the bottom of the image, so I put it in to quick mask mode to fix it

From here, I was able to do what I wanted with the background, including adding a gradient

6) In quick mask mode, I simply brushed the areas that needed to be selected, then exited quick mask mode and pressed delete to remove the background

Creating a Tiled Text Effect

1) First I started off with a black background and big bold text in yellow 2) Then I went Filter -> Stylize -> Tiles

3) I then changed the number of tiles to 20 and selected to fill the empty area with inverse image. 4) I repeated step 3 twice more to increase the definition of the tiles