Last week, I introduced you to the Horizontal Type Tool Mask, an underused tool that creates type-shaped selections. With it, we learned how to quickly stroke a selection of text. Today I’ll share another quick and really fun technique using the same tool. (more…)

Tags: digital scrapbooking | Keeping it Real | Photoshop | text | type

Welcome back to the Keeping It Real series here at theBlog. I’ve got a serious question to ask you:

How do you outline your title text on a digital scrapbook page?

If I were a guessing woman, I’d wager you might open the Effects Panel, or the Layer Styles menu in Photoshop, of the appropriate text layer and simply apply a stroke. That’s one surefire way to create the look.

Another way is by use of the Horizontal Type Tool Mask, a nifty, underused tool that creates type-shaped selections. You read right: selections! This tool offers you the same design options as other selection tools like the marquees, lasso, and magic wand. Oh, the possibilities right! Well for the next, few Keeping It Real topics, I want to show you just how real-ly fun this tool can be. (more…)

Tags: Keeping it Real | Photoshop | text | type

Text FX with Tiffany Tillman is back!

Type is creative. Type communicates. Type represents you on your scrapbook page. This four-week class begins August 22^nd and is your last chance in 2011 to learn all about type with Tiffany Tillman.

Text FX takes you on a learning adventure through basic typographic theory to eye-popping title text effects using eight learning objectives and ten title-work projects.

Here’s a short preview of what you have to look forward to from Text FX. To learn more, go to the Text FX class page.

Tags: design | Tiffany Tillman | type | typography