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One Night in Paris, Pt 4.
Warped Type and Type Outlines
   

You should have already completed One Night in Paris, Part I, One Night in Paris, Part 2 and One Night in Paris, Part 3 before embarking on this tutorial, but it is not necessary.

In this tutorial we'll create warped type and outline it.
 
 

If you are only interested in how to create warped text and outlines, and are not following the multi-part tutorial, Right Click / Control Click on this image and save it to your hard drive.
 
Warped Type  

If it's not already open, open your final *.psd file from the previous tutorial (or the image above).

1. I used Adventure as a font. If you don't have it, you could use a nice bold typeface like Arial Black (Italic), Verdana Bold (Italic) or Impact (slightly skewed).

A Halloween, or similar style font, would also work with my design.

Character Palette (Window > Show Character).

Type Tool (T) > Font: Adventure > Black > 48pt > Aligned Left > Leading: 30pt.

Write this:

One Night
In Paris

We are going to temporarily use black text so we can see what we're doing against a partly white background. We will turn this text white later.
   

2. Target Type layer > Type Tool (T) > Create Warped Type.

 
   

3. Target Text Layer > Transform (Ctrl + T / Command + T) > Scale.
Scale your text so it takes up most of the canvas width.
   
Type Border  
   
 

4. New Layer > Name it Outline. Drag the Outline Layer underneath the Type layer.

Target Type Layer > Select opaque pixels (Ctrl + Click / Command + Click on the Type layer). You should now have a marquee wrapped around your text.
   

5. Default Colors (D).

Select > Modify > Expand > 4 pixels.

Target the Outline Layer > Fill Marquee with Black (Alt + Backspace / Option + Delete).

Clear Marquee (Ctrl + D / Command + D).
   
 

6. Target Outline Layer > Layer Style > Drop Shadow.

Double Click on the Outline Layer to access your Layer Styles. Select Drop Shadow from the Styles List. Go with the default options.
   

7. Target Type Layer > Type Tool (T) > Type color > White.

Change the color of your type to white, either on the Character Palette or on the Type Option bar.

That's it! We're Done!!
Here's a design I finished earlier. Yours should look similar, it doesn't have to look exactly like mine. You're on your own for rocket ships or any other campy graphics. Take some time to finish it off with something of your own idea.

I hope you learned a lot from these tutorials. Any feedback... email: rkovacs@thevein.com.
 
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