From the course: Photoshop: Channels and Masks
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Increasing the legibility of type - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Channels and Masks
Increasing the legibility of type
- [Instructor] In this movie, we're gonna take our type that inverts everything, that we created in the previous movie, and we're gonna make it way more legible and more colorful as well, with the application of a couple of layer effects. Alright so the first thing I'm gonna do is make sure my text on path group is selected. And I'm gonna go ahead and twirl it closed by clicking on that little twirly triangle right there. And these days, you can apply layer effects to entire groups, by clicking on the FX icon and choosing an RK stroke. And that'll allow us to add a stroke around all the letters. Now I don't want it to be this color. I have no idea where that came from, in fact. And so I'll just go ahead and click on that swatch and change the color to white by dragging that circle to the upper-left corner. Any time you have a saturation value of 0% combined with a brightness value of 100%, you're gonna get white, regardless of the hue value. And so I'll just go ahead and click OK. Now…
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The best selection tools are commands2m 9s
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A brief Magic Wand refresher4m 36s
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Introducing the Color Range command4m 15s
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Working in the Color Range dialog box4m 56s
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Localized color clusters5m 45s
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Selecting complex organic details5m 59s
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Using Color Range to augment a mask4m 27s
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Finessing and feathering a layer mask6m 43s
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Creating a zoom effect with Pinch7m 2s
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Isolating Color Range inside a marquee7m 6s
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Inverting everything with type6m 58s
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Increasing the legibility of type4m 1s
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