Tip 1: How to create a large text

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Tip 1: How to create a large text

To create a voluminous text, there isset of editors. One of the most understandable and familiar multifunctional programs is Adobe Photoshop, with which you can create voluminous text in several ways.

You will need

Adobe Photoshop.

Instructions

Download to your computer image editor"Adobe Photoshop" or its equivalent, performing similar functions, it is best to select options that support working with objects in 3D mode. After installing the software, register it with your phone or internet.

Open the image you needwrite a voluminous text. If it is not already created, draw it using the tools in the panel on the left. Edit the image in such a way that the final version of the image is obtained and then do not return to correct it.

Create a new layer. In the toolbar, select the input text, and in the appeared on the top menu of its formattingselect the color, size, font and so on. Create a second similar layer, but having already shifted the text with the arrows to the left, right, down, up, or diagonally at your discretion depending on the desired direction.

Edit each layer in theSeparate the layers and merge the image. Save it to a folder on your computer by setting the quality settings, interpolation parameters, and image size. It is best to create an original of high resolution and good quality in advance.

If in your assembly Adobe Photoshop has a built-in plug-in for transforming objects into 3D, use it to create a large text. In the absence of such an addendum, you candownload it separately from the Internet. This is due to the fact that the built-in such plug-in often leads to an abnormal termination of the program without saving the working data. In case you find it difficult to understand the functions of the Adobe Photoshop program, download one of the video instructions for creating large texts.

Tip 2: How to make 3D buttons

In the design of sites quite often used volumetric navigation elements. Such buttons can be done in the Photoshop graphics editor, simulating the volume with the help of shadows and gradient fill.

You will need

- program Photoshop.

Instructions

Create a new document in the graphics editor using the New option from the File menu. The size of the new document is selected so that the button fits in it, and make the background transparent.

Activate the Rounded Rectangle Tool. If you do not need a very rounded button, in the tool settings panel, specify a value for the Radius parameter that is equal to one millimeter. Draw a rounded rectangle with the selected tool. The resulting figure will be the basis for buttons.

Right-click on the layer and select the Rasterize Layer option. Load the selection with the Load Selection option from the Select menu.

Pour the Gradient Toolbutton with a two-color gradient, selecting the appropriate combination of colors from the presets in the gradient palette. The gradient style must be linear, select it by clicking on the Linear Gradient button under the main menu. Top part buttons after pouring should be lighter than the bottom.

Apply a style to the layer. To do this, use the Blending Options option from the context menu. Select the Drop Shadow tab and enter a value of one hundred and twenty degrees for the Angle parameter. Set the Size parameter to three pixels.

In the Inner Shadow tab, set the Angle parameter to the same value, and for Size, set the value to five pixels. Apply the style by pressing the Enter key.

Make a shadow from buttons. To do this, click on the Create a new layer button and fill the selected area of the new layer with black. Select the Paint Bucket Tool for this. Deselect with the keys Ctrl + D.

Apply a filter to the black rectangleGaussian Blur from the Blur group of the Filter menu. Set the Radius parameter to four pixels. Drag the layer with the shadow under the layer with the button and lift the shadow three or four pixels up. To do this, activate the Move Tool and move the shadow with the cursor buttons. Reduce the Opacity setting for this layer to sixty percent.

Make the layer with the button active and load the selection from it. Shorten the selection by two pixels with the Contract option from the Modify group of the Selection menu.

Create a new layer and fill the resulting selection with a linear gradient from white to transparent so that the white part is at the bottom buttons. Deselect the selection. With the Free Transform option from the Edit menu, reduce the area covered by the gradient, vertically. Use the Enter key to apply the transformation.

Change the blend mode of the gradient layer to Overlay. This can be done by selecting a mode from the drop-down list on the left side of the style palette. Reduce the Opacity of the layer to sixty percent.

Use the Horizontal Type Tool to write the text that should be on the button.

Collect all the layers in the folder with the option Group Layers from the Layer menu, selecting them with the Ctrl key pressed. Save the button to the psd file with the Save option from the File menu.

Tip 3: How to make a drop of water

Photoshop allows you to create a variety ofVisual effects to give a certain style to your graffiti and graphic objects. For example, with Photoshop you can easily create text with ice, fire or water texture. Let's consider some simple actions, allowing to create an inscription in Photoshop in the form of volume drops.

Instructions

Create a new document in Photoshop and write toagainst a white background any word with a suitable font. Select the Brush tool on the toolbar and draw on the letters and around them rounded and elongated drops of arbitrary shape.

Click on any of the layers with the right mouse buttonand select Flatten Image to merge the layers with the drops and text. Open the Channels palette and create a channel mask by dragging the icon of any of the channel layers to the New Channel icon. Press Ctrl + Shift + I to invert the channel.

Create a background image for the text -Create a new document and enable the grid display (View> Show Grid). Then connect the Snap To Grid option. Focusing on the grid, draw the document into squares and fill them with blue and dark blue color alternately in checkerboard pattern.

Select the background and save it as a texture, selectingin the Edit menu, the Define Pattern option. Now again open the document with letters and set the background fill by selecting the created texture (Pattern). Temporarily disable the letter layer by clicking on the eye icon next to the layer, and then open the Filter menu. In the Render section, select the Lighting Effects option. Set the lighting of the background texture to make it look more interesting.

Now reconnect the layer with letters andcopy the channel. Make the channel active, then open the Filter menu and select the Gaussian Blur option with a blur radius of 6 pixels. Now open the Image menu and open the Levels section. Adjust the Input levels as follows: 36,1.00,54.

Create a new layer, fill it with white andload the copied channel with letters by selecting the Load Selection option from the Select menu. On the layer with letters, fill the selection with black color, and then delete the selection.

Make the letters bulky by blurring them withfilter Gaussian Blur, then in the filter menu open the section Stylize> Emboss, setting the Angle: - 45, Height: 6 and Amount: 100%. After that, open the Adjust section in the Image menu and select Curves.

Set the appropriate Input-Output valuesLevels to make the image even larger. Also, you can give the letters volume using the Artistic> Plastic Wrap filter. Set the layer with letters as active and change the blending mode of the background layer and the layer with letters to Hard Light. Use Deplace Filter to create a light refractive effect in transparent letters.

Tip 4: How to arrange a beautiful laser show

Laser show will help to turn the usualevent in a bright colorful holiday with unusual special effects and congratulations. Graphic images created with the help of laser can be either static or mobile, the show itself is held indoors or outdoors, depending on the capabilities and requirements.

You will need

- laser equipment;
- smoke generator;
- musical installation.

Instructions

It is impossible to hold a laser show without speciallight and laser equipment, so buy or rent it in advance. Pay attention to the power of the device and the possibility of combining several colors, since there are monochrome lasers.

If possible, order servicesexperts familiar with the equipment, as they can create professional effects and turn the movement of the rays into a good quality show. Together with them, think over the program of the show: at the children's holiday the characters of cartoons will be appropriate, at the corporate party - logos and products of the company, and at the wedding - flowers and romantic images.

Think about how images will be formed fromlaser beams. In the room you can use the usual walls and ceiling, but the picture will be flat. In addition, you can hang a special grid-screen, which will be projected rays.

To get a 3D image withlaser, use a smoke generator. Special harmless smoke will not create discomfort for the guests, and the pictures drawn by the laser will be voluminous and almost alive. Very spectacular is a laser show on the street, but this requires smoke, rain, snow or fog. If possible, use water: fountains, a water wall, artificial rain.

Try to ensure a good musicalaccompaniment, in many respects it depends on him the general impression of the show. It is important not only the sound quality, but also the coincidence of the rhythm with the movement of the rays, that is, synchronization.

For many solemn occasions, usecongratulations, which in the form of a running line let in the air several times in the evening. It is important that the surface is stable (for example, a wall or screen), otherwise the text may be distorted.