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Create Art Nouveau type with the ZigZag filter

Create Art Nouveau type with the ZigZag filter - Photoshop Tutorial

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Create Art Nouveau type with the ZigZag filter

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- [Instructor] Here's an interesting and unexpected use of the zigzag filter. This is my starting point. I have two layers of type, and I'm using the multiply blend mode on the top layer to create this overlapping transparency effect. The font that I'm using is HWTArts. I'm using this because it's big, chunky, and rounded. It's also available on Typekit, but if you don't have it, then just use something similar. So I now want to put a solid color fill layer beneath this, and in this case I'm going to use white. I'll select both pieces of type, convert them to a smart object, come to the Filter menu, Distort, and ZigZag. And this is an old filter. We don't have too many options. But we can change the amount, the number of ridges, and we have these three different styles. So I'm going to go with a round center. And I don't want too many ridges. And I'll go for an amount of, let's say 40. Click OK. That's the result that we get. But if I now come to my filter blending options and…

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