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Filling text with a warped gradient

Filling text with a warped gradient - Photoshop Tutorial

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

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Filling text with a warped gradient

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to fill your letters with a gradient, which is absolutely essential if you're going to achieve an authentic Indiana Jones effect. Thing is, this is not your every day average gradient, this is a gradient that is warped along with the layer. So, let's see what that looks like. I'll go ahead and switch over to my document so far, and with the Deke's Techniques layer active, I want you to go up to the Layer menu, choose New Fill Layer, and then choose Gradient. And I'm going to go ahead and name this layer Indiana, and then I'll press the Enter key or the Return key on a Mac, to bring up the Gradient Fill dialog box. Now, if you have access to my exercise files, you can click on this down pointing arrow head, and by now, you've probably already loaded my gradients, but just in case you haven't, then you click on the little gear icon right there, and choose Load Gradients, and then navigate your way to the 18 Free Transform folder, and…

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