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Creating blurry, spray paint-style type

Creating blurry, spray paint-style type - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced

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Creating blurry, spray paint-style type

- [Instructor] In this movie I'll show you the best way to create blurry text inside Photoshop, in this case to achieve a kind of a spray paint effect, and believe it or not, it involves the drop shadow, and if that doesn't surprise you, what you're looking at is fully live editable text. Alright, so I'll go ahead and switch over to my starter document here, and the first thing I want to do is make sure that Text Layer is selected, and then, because I really don't want to be seeing any of these sharply defined letters, I'll reduce the Fill Opacity Value down to its absolute minimum of zero percent, which you can also do by pressing Shift + 0 + 0, two zeros in a row, when one of the selection tools is active, and that's going to have the effect of making the text absolutely invisible. Now what I want you to do is drop down to the Fx icon, and choose Drop Shadow in order to bring up the Drop Shadow Dialog Box. This is a little bit of a give away, which is why I'm going to click on Reset…

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