From the course: Designing a Book Cover

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More distressed type

More distressed type

In this second technique for creating distressed type we are going to see how we can apply a layer mask to this type running down the side "No Pasaran". And use a different technique from what we used here on the yellow type. So this is going to involve using a texture file. In the Exercise Files is this photograph of a paving slab. What we are going to do is drag this with the Move tool up to the top bar. Keep your mouse button pressed as you do this and then drag it back down on to the image, and you've now loaded that as a layer in this composition. Next thing we want to do is rotate it so I am going to press Command or Ctrl+T. That's going to take me to my Free Transform. And then spin it around. I am holding down the Shift key to spin it in increments until we get it like so. And then I am going to distort it, just pull it around until it covers the type that we wanted to affect. Then press Return to accept that transformation. And now I am going to come to the Adjustments and do…

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