Week 11
Step 1
Create a new document, apply a Layer Style on the background layer. Add a Gradient Overlay from black to a dark brown (#443501).
Step 2
Create a new Layer and apply Filter>Texture>Texturizer. Make sure that the foreground color is white and the background is black. After that, change the Blend Mode to Multiply.
Step 3
Add some text. I used Times New Roman, and for the “A” I used the “V” letter and flipped it vertically and horizontally.
Step 4
Now we start creating our gold layer style. We’ll set up the Gradient Overlay first, as shown below.
Step 5
Now we’ll add a Stroke. For the Fill Type use Gradient. The position of the gradient will vary for different typefaces, so experiment and see what looks good.
Step 6
Add Bevel and Emboss, as shown below.
Step 7
Finally, add some Shadow, again following the specs below.
This Photoshop effect is very useful because it can create a very slick, clean looking title for a website, movie, book, or anything that could use a title that looks like this. It is very clean looking and can be very attractive if used right.
Resource Link: http://www.photoshoplady.com/top-50-stunning-text-effect-photoshop-tutorials/
Week 10
Week 9
Step 1: Open A New Photoshop Document
Open a new document in Photoshop by going up to the File menu and choosing New…, or by using the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+N (Win) / Command+N (Mac). You can choose your own width and height for your document, but if you want to follow along, I chose the 640×480 size from the list of available presets to keep things simple. I’ve also left my Resolution value set to its default of 72 pixels/inch. Since I’m creating this text effect for the web, it makes no difference what I set the resolution value to, so the default value is fine:
Create a new document in Photoshop. To follow along, use the “640×480″ preset size.
Step 2: Add Your Text
With your new blank document open, grab the Type tool from the Tools palette or by pressing T on your keyboard. Make sure black is selected as your foreground color. If it isn’t, just press D on your keyboard to reset it to black. Choose your font in the Options Bar at the top of the screen. Thick, heavy fonts work best for this effect. Then, go ahead and enter your text. I’m going to use “Impact”, and I’ll type the words “LIGHT BURST”:
Choose a thick, heavy font, and with black as your foreground color, enter your text.
Step 3: Resize Your Text With Free Transform
With your text layer selected in the Layers palette, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+T (Win) / Command+T (Mac) to bring up the Free Transform box and handles around your text. Hold down Shift+Alt (Win) / Shift+Option (Mac) and drag out any of the corner handles to make your text larger and fill up more of the document area. Holding Shift constrains the text proportions, and holding Alt/Option resizes the text from the center:
Resize the text with Photoshop’s “Free Transform” command.
Make sure to still leave plenty of room around the text for our light burst effect. Press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) when you’re done to accept the transformation.
Step 4: Rasterize Your Text
We’re going to be applying several filters to our text, but Photoshop doesn’t allow us to do that without first rasterizing it, which simply means to convert it into pixels. So again with the text layer selected, go up to the Layer menu at the top of the screen, choose Rasterize, and then choose Type. This will convert our text into pixels. It will still look the same in the document window, but in the Layers palette, the Type layer will now be a regular layer:
After rasterizing the text, the Type layer in the Layers palette becomes a normal layer.
Step 5: Add A Selection Around Your Text And Save It
Ctrl-click (Win) / Command-click (Mac) directly on the thumbnail preview area of the text layer in the Layers palette to quickly load a selection around your text:
“Ctrl-click” (Win) / “Command-click” (Mac) directly on the text thumbnail in the Layers palette.
Your text will now have a selection around it:
The text is now selected.
With the text selected, go up to the Select menu at the top of the screen and choose Save Selection. When the Save Selection dialog box appears, just click OK. There’s no need to name it or make any changes to the options.
Once you’ve saved your selection, press Ctrl+D (Win) / Command+D (Mac) to deselect your text.
Switch over to your Channels palette for a moment (it’s grouped in beside the Layers palette) and you’ll see your selection saved as a new channel named “Alpha 1″ at the very bottom. We’ll be coming back here a bit later to load our selection again:
The selection is now saved as a new channel, “Alpha 1″, in Photoshop’s Channels palette.
Step 6: Use “Fill” To Fill Your Text Layer With White And Set The Blend Mode To “Multiply”
Switch back to your Layers palette once again, and with the text layer selected, go up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen and choose Fill, or press Shift+F5 on your keyboard to quickly bring up Photoshop’s Fill dialog box. When the dialog box appears, set the Contents to White and change the Blending Mode to Multiply:
Photoshop’s “Fill” dialog box”.
Click OK when you’re done. Nothing will seem to have happened in your document window, but if you look at your text layer’s thumbnail in the Layers palette, you’ll see that all of the empty space around the text has now been filled with white, while leaving the text black thanks to that "Multiply" mode.
Step 7: Apply The Gaussian Blur Filter To The Text
Go up to the Filter menu at the top of the screen, choose Blur, and then choose Gaussian Blur. When the Gaussian Blur dialog box appears, enter a Radius value of about 4 pixels and click OK to apply a slight blurring to the text:
Apply the Gaussian Blur filter to the text.
Here’s the text after applying Gaussian Blur:
The text is now blurred slightly.
Step 8: Apply The “Solarize” Filter To The Text
With the text layer still selected, go back up to the Filter menu and this time choose Stylize, and then choose Solarize. This will turn the document black, and your text will appear as a white stroke:
The image after applying the Solarize filter.
Step 9: Lighten The Text With Levels
The text is looking a little dark, so let’s lighten it. Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+L (Win) / Command+L (Mac) to bring up Photoshop’s Levels command, and drag the white point slider on the right in towards the left until you reach the right edge of the histogram:
With the Levels dialog box open, grab the white point slider on the right and drag it to the right edge of the histogram to brighten the text.
Click OK. The text will now appear much brighter:
The text is now much brighter after applying Levels.
Step 10: Make A Copy Of The Text Layer
We need to make a copy of the text layer at this point, so to do that, with the text layer selected, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+J (Win) / Command+J (Mac), which will add a copy of the layer above it in the Layers palette:
The Layers palette now showing both the text layer and the copy above it.
Make sure the copy of the text layer is selected because all of these next steps are to be done on the copy. We won’t be touching the original again until near the end.
Step 11: Apply The “Polar Coordinates” Filter To The Text
Go back up to the Filter menu, and this time choose Distort, and then Polar Coordinates. We’re going to send our text to the North Pole. Alright, no we’re not. What we are going to do is make it look very strange. When the Polar Coordinates dialog box appears, select the Polar To Rectangular option at the very bottom and then click OK:
Photoshop’s “Polar Coordinates” dialog box.
Your text will now look very strange indeed:
The text after applying the “Polar Coordinates” filter.
Step 12: Rotate The Canvas 90 Degrees Clockwise
Go up to the Image menu at the top of the screen, select Rotate Canvas, and then choose 90° CW to rotate the canvas 90 degrees clockwise:
Rotate the canvas 90 degrees clockwise.
Step 13: Invert The Image
Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+I (Win) / Command+I (Mac) to invert the image, so black becomes white and white becomes black:
Invert the image with “Ctrl+I” (Win) / “Command+I” (Mac).
Step 14: Apply The “Wind” Filter Three Times
Go back up to the Filter menu once again, choose Stylize, and then choose Wind. When the Wind filter’s dialog box appears, make sure Method is set to Wind and Direction is set to From the Right:
Photoshop’s “Wind” filter.
Click OK to apply the Wind filter once. Then press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F (Win) / Command+F (Mac) twice to apply the same filter two more times.
Step 15: Invert The Image Again
Press Ctrl+I (Win) / Command+I (Mac) to invert the image once again:
Invert the image once again using “Ctrl+I” (Win) / “Command+I” (Mac).
Step 16: Apply The “Wind” Filter Three More Times
With the image inverted, press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F (Win) / Command+F (Mac) three more times to apply the filter to the image three more times:
Apply the “Wind” filter to the image three more times.
Step 17: Brighten The Image Again With Levels
We need to brighten the image again using Levels, but this time, we’ll let Photoshop do the work for us by using Auto Levels. To do that, press Shift+Ctrl+L (Win) / Shift+Command+L (Mac) to apply the Auto Levels command to the image, which will brighten it up:
Apply the “Auto Levels” command to brighten the image.
Step 18: Rotate The Canvas 90 Degrees Counterclockwise
Go back up to the Image menu at this point, choose Rotate Canvas once again, and this time choose 90° CCW to rotate the canvas back to the way it was originally:
Rotate the canvas 90° CCW.
Step 19: Apply The "Polar Coordinates" Filter Again
Go back up to the Filter menu again, choose Distort, and then choose Polar Coordinates. This time choose the Rectangular to Polar option and click OK:
Apply “Polar Coordinates” again, this time choosing “Rectangular to Polar”.
Your image should now look something like this:
The image after applying the “Polar Coordinates” filter a second time.
Step 20: Set The Layer Blend Mode To "Screen"
Go up to the blend mode options in the top left of the Layers palette and change the blend mode of the text copy layer from “Normal” to Screen by clicking on the down-pointing arrow and selecting "Screen" from the list:
Change the blend mode of the text copy layer to Screen.
This reveals the original text layer beneath it:
The original text layer is now visible as well.
Step 21: Apply A Gradient Fill Layer To Add Color
Click on the New Fill Or Adjustment Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette:
Click the “New Fill Or Adjustment Layer icon.
And select “Gradient” from the list:
Select a Gradient fill layer.
When the Gradient Fill dialog box pops up, click inside the gradient preview area at the top:
Click inside the gradient preview area.
This will bring up the Gradient Editor dialog box. Click on the gradient swatch in the top left, the black to white gradient first, and this will make sure that both colors on either side of the gradient have their opacity set to 100%:
Select the black to white gradient swatch in the top left to make sure both colors are set to 100% opacity first.
Then set your gradient colors to whatever you like. I’ve set the color on the left to a reddish-orange, and the color on the right to a yellowish-orange:
Set your gradient colors.
Exit out of the gradient dialog boxes once you’ve chosen your colors.
Step 22: Change The Blend Mode Of The Gradient Fill Layer To “Color”
With the Gradient fill layer selected, go back to the blend mode options in the top left of the Layers palette and change the layer’s blend mode to Color:
Change the blend mode of the Gradient fill layer to “Color”.
The image is now colorized with the colors from the gradient:
The gradient colors are now applied to the image.
Step 23: Apply A Radial Blur To The Original Text Layer
We’re done with the text copy layer at this point. We’re going to finish off the last few steps by working on the original text layer, so click on it in the Layers palette to select it. Then go up to the Filter menu, choose Blur, and then choose Radial Blur:
Photoshop’s “Radial Blur” dialog box.
Set the Amount to about 65 pixels, the Blur Method to Zoom, and the Quality to Best, as circled above, and then click OK to apply the filter to the original text:
The Radial Blur applied to the image.
Step 24: Load The Saved Text Selection
Only a couple of things left to do. First, switch over to your Channels palette again like we did earlier. We’re going to reload that selection we saved. To do that, simply right-click (Win) / Control-click (Mac) anywhere on the Alpha 1 channel at the very bottom, which will load the selection back into the document window:
Right-click (Win) / Control-click (Mac) anywhere on the “Alpha 1″ channel to load the saved text selection.
Switch back to the Layers palette when you’re done. The selection is now loaded in the image:
The selection now loaded into the image.
One thing left to do…
Step 25: Fill The Selection With Black
With the original text layer selected in the Layers palette and black still as your foreground color, press Alt+Backspace (Win) / Option-Delete (Mac) to fill the selection with black and finish the effect.
Press Ctrl+D (Win) / Command+D (Mac) to remove the selection, and you’re done!
After all that, here’s the final “light burst” text effect:
This Photoshop text effect can create a very attractive and good looking image or images that you can put on your website to attract viewers. The best use for this could be as a title on a website or as a title screen in some sort of video on a website.
Here is the resource link for this text effect: http://www.photoshoplady.com/tutorial/colorful-light-burst-text/316
Week 8
Start a new document about 800x300.
Reset your foreground and background color to black and white (Press "D").
Then go to Filter » Render » Clouds.
Select the type tool and create your text. Make it fairly large, and position it towards the top.
CTRL+CLICK the text layer to load the selection, then go to SELECT » Feather, and enter 3. Now hide the text layer.
Set your foreground color to white and background to light grey. I used:#7E7E7E.
Now create a new layer, then go to Filter » Render » Cloud. Then go to Layer » Image » Flatten Image. (if prompt for "Discard Hidden Layers" Click ok.)
Now go to Image » Rotate Canvas » 90CW. Then Filter » Stylize » Wind:
Method: Wind. Direction: From the Right. Press CTRL+F about 7 times to reapply the wind filter. Then Image » Rotate Canvas » 90CCW to turn the image back to normal viewing.
Now Filter » Sharpen » Unsharp Mask. Amount: 500%. Radius: 2. Threshold: 0.
Then Filter » Sharpen » Sharpen. Reapply twice.
Now open the color balance box and play with the color sliders to get some nice colors.
This Photoshop effect can be very useful for creating cool titles and headings for websites, posters, or other mediums.
Resource Link: http://www.photoshoplady.com/tutorial/3d-cliff-text/207
Week 7
<marquee behavior="scroll" direction="left"><img src="http://www.quackit.com/pix/web_graphics/free_website_graphics/clip_arts/bats_013.gif" width="125" height="82" alt="Flying Bat" /></marquee>
This code is useful as it allows people to add more style and interesting designs to their sites with scrolling images. This can help keep the reader/audience interested.
Here is the resource link for this html code: http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/scrolling_images.cfm
Week 6
<marquee behavior="scroll" direction="left">Your scrolling text goes here</marquee>
This code will make text scroll across the screen continually going to the left. This can be helpful for making websites more creative and original so they can stand out more than usual.
Week 5
<embed
src="/music/song_name.mp3"
width="180"
height="90"
loop="false"
autostart="false" />
This code will embed music files onto your website. This is very helpful for any websites that are for music groups, record labels, etc as their audience and listeners can hear their work on their website.
Week 4
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en-US">
<head profile="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/profile">
<link rel="icon"
type="image/png"
href="http://example.com/myicon.png">
[…]
</head>
[…]
</html>
This code adds a favicon to the tab of your website. This is very helpful as it can distinguish your website from others by presenting a logo/icon to the viewers.
Week 3
<FORM action="mailto:you@yourdomain.com" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="4" WIDTH="90%">
<TR>
<TD width="30%"><DIV align="right">
<B>Name:</B>
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD width="70%">
<INPUT type="text" name="name" size="20">
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><DIV align="right"><B>Email:</B></DIV>
</TD>
<TD>
<INPUT type="text" name="email" size="20">
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><DIV align="right">
<B>Comment:</B>
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD><TEXTAREA name="comment" cols="30" wrap="virtual" rows="4">
</TEXTAREA>
</TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD> </TD>
<TD>
<INPUT type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
<INPUT type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset">
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</FORM>
This code adds a form that people can put their contact information such as first and last name, email address, or a phone number in. This is very helpful as it allows website owners to create a contact/email list to send new information out to.
This is the resource link for this html code: http://www.web-source.net/html_email_form.htm#.UkWnybzaucI
Week 2
<!-- DC Twitter CSS -->
<
link
href
=
"dreamcodes/twitter_tweet/jquery.tweet.css"
rel
=
"stylesheet"
>
<!-- jQuery Library (skip this step if already called on page ) -->
<
script
type
=
"text/javascript"
src
=
"dreamcodes/jquery.min.js"
></
script
>
<!-- (do not call twice) -->
<!-- DC Twitter JS -->
<
script
src
=
"dreamcodes/twitter_tweet/jquery.tweet.js"
charset
=
"utf-8"
></
script
>
This code adds a twitter feed of your choice to your webpage. This can be helpful for providing updates to viewers and getting your thoughts and ideas out to your audience.
Here is the resource link for this code: http://www.dreamtemplate.com/dreamcodes/documentation/tweet.html
Week 1
<form action="/html/tags/html_form_tag_action.cfm" method="post">
Comments:<br />
<textarea name="comments" id="comments">
Hey... say something!
</textarea><br />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
This code will add a comment box to your webpage so others can comment on your page. This can be very helpful in getting feedback on your website.
Here is a resource website for this code: http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/comment_box_code.cfm
Comments (11)
Lori said
at 10:09 am on Sep 19, 2013
Entry #1: 4/4. Excellent job. All required elements are provided and this is a very useful code for collecting feedback.
Lori said
at 9:54 am on Sep 27, 2013
Entry #2: 4/4. All required elements are provided. Live feeds are excellent to implement into Websites. They are able to provide interactivity for the user.
Lori said
at 9:48 am on Oct 9, 2013
Entry #3 & #4: 4/4. Both excellent and useful entries with all the required elements provided
Lori said
at 10:29 am on Oct 28, 2013
Post #5: 3/4. This is a useful code but make sure that is works on all Web browsers. Also, you need to include a resource link in each post.
Post #6: 3/4. This is also a useful code when used correctly. Be sure not to create to many distractions on your site when implementing scrolling text. Also, you need to include a resource link in each post.
Lori said
at 11:23 am on Nov 18, 2013
Post #7 & #8: 4/4. All required elements are provided. #7 Provide the directions of where to place the code and be more specific about the img src. #8 When providing step by step directions format them into an easy to read list.
vltrofimov said
at 12:24 pm on Jan 10, 2014
I like flames too!!!!!!!!!!1
bebaptiste said
at 12:26 pm on Jan 10, 2014
Week #5 - I like the idea of being able to add audio files to a site. This may be very useful especially for a music group or any site relating to music. Good work.
emmoncata said
at 12:28 pm on Jan 10, 2014
Your posts about different styles of typography are really cool. Each one has a unique effect that could be used in different situations.
Lori said
at 5:44 pm on Jan 12, 2014
Post #9, 10 & 11: 4/4. Model work! Excellent and resourceful posts on various Photoshop tutorials. Your directions are clear and your visuals add to the content.
romartino said
at 1:34 pm on Jan 14, 2014
I love the fire affect, very innovative. I can see that effect being very useful when designing digital artwork.
adcadman said
at 1:43 pm on Jan 14, 2014
The fire effect in photoshop was really cool! I like the idea of using fire creatively.
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