{"id":20386,"date":"2017-08-08T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/?p=20386"},"modified":"2017-08-07T17:43:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T00:43:37","slug":"tutorial-tuesday-photoshop-elements-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/2017\/08\/tutorial-tuesday-photoshop-elements-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial Tuesday (Photoshop Elements)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Once again, Glee<\/strong> has outed me! She saw my finished layout in the Gallery<\/strong><\/a> and just knew today’s tutorial would relate to how I created my title. I used a pretty but fairly simple script font called Black Olives<\/em><\/strong>. It’s an upright font so I chose the Italic Text tool<\/strong> option. The colour was pulled from the sky in my photo.<\/p>\n

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After I had my text the size I wanted it and in the spot I wanted it, I simplified<\/strong> then duplicated<\/strong> the text layer. CTRL\/CMD>J<\/strong>, remember. Then I “grabbed” the handle at the top centre of my bounding box – make sure yours is on! – and pulled it straight down. The Move<\/strong> tool options include a spot to Constrain Proportions<\/strong>; if you select that, it will automatically size your image. If you look at the numbers in the boxes, one will say 100% (for example) and the other will say -100%. But for this technique you don’t have to constrain proportions if you don’t want to. You can make it whatever height you want. When you’re happy, hit the check-mark.<\/p>\n

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The next step I took was to Skew<\/strong> the image. Image>Transform>Skew<\/strong> takes you there. Then I pulled the lower corner handles a bit to the right. You can eye-ball for this step, or you can turn on the grid (CTRL\/CMD>’<\/strong>) to help you do it evenly. But only if you’re really… umm… particular.<\/p>\n

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And I am. I turned on the grid so I could move those handles about the same distance. I also nudged the skewed layer down a little, as you’ll see in the next screenshot.<\/p>\n

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If you’re a faithful reader you’ll know that I’m rarely satisfied with basic. I went on to jazz things up a little by applying some special effects. I made a copy of the skewed layer<\/strong> then added some panache. The fx<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0button at the bottom of your layers panel includes some basic styles, such as Drop Shadows<\/strong>, Glows<\/strong> and Bevels<\/strong>. By selecting any one of those you’ll have access to all of the default settings as shown below. I used a commercially available style set, but the settings below will give you the same effects. Check the Glow<\/strong> and Inner<\/strong>\u00a0boxes, with black<\/strong> (000000) for the Colour<\/strong>. Set the Size<\/strong> to about 18<\/strong> and the Opacity<\/strong> to about 13<\/strong>. Then go down and check the Bevel<\/strong> box, Direction<\/strong> up<\/strong><\/span> and Size<\/strong> at 24<\/strong>. You can see that the topmost skewed layer looks a little shiny with some dimension to it.<\/p>\n

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Then I went down to the original skewed layer<\/strong> and decreased its Opacity<\/strong> down to 28%<\/strong>. I wanted some of the blue to remain, but the shiny dimensional stuff to be most visible.<\/p>\n

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Then I merged the two skewed layers.<\/p>\n

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I chose another font, this time a simple sans serif one called Caviar Dreams<\/strong><\/em>. I pulled a pink from one of the papers I used then added some special effects to it too. The Glow<\/strong> and Inner<\/strong> boxes are checked again, Size<\/strong> is at 70<\/strong> and Opacity<\/strong> at 50<\/strong>. The Bevel<\/strong> is set at 24<\/strong> and Up<\/strong> again.<\/p>\n

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I decided a little drop shadow on the two fancy layers was needed because of their dimension and the end result looks like this.<\/p>\n

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You know what’s the best part? You can do this to almost anything! You can create a mirror image of a photo, an element, a brush (on its own layer, of course!), make an object look like it’s casting a really long shadow… so many ways you can make this work for you! Give it a whirl. I know you’ll find some really creative ways to use it and to combine it with other cool techniques. See you in a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reflections Once again, Glee has outed me! She saw my finished layout in the Gallery and just knew today’s tutorial would relate to how I created my title. I used a pretty but fairly simple script font called Black Olives. It’s an upright font so I chose the Italic Text tool option. The colour was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[92,62],"tags":[373],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 18:56:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"private","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20397,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20386\/revisions\/20397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}