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f everything
went well the image should now look something like this:
Now comes the
best part: The Safeman's layer. The first thing we will do is to make
the text slope up to the right above the S in SECURITY. This is how
we do it:
• On the Edit
menu choose Reshape
(Transform) and the Rotate
from the submenu
A box (similar
to the one we saw when we slanted text in a previous tutorial)
appears around the text, and the mouse cursor changes to a bent
double arrow.
•
Position the cursor at the handle in the bottom left corner
• Hold
down the left mouse button and pull downwards
As you can see
the box (and the text) rotates around the center point. Pull
downwards until the text is sloped as much as you prefer. To get rid
of the box and make the change take effect click on the Move
tool (you can actually click on any tool). An alert box pops up
asking you if you wish to use (apply), not use or cancel the
operation. Click on use (apply). Both the alert box and the box
around the text disappears.
Since the Move
tool is selected (it is if you clicked on it) we might as well make
use of it and adjust the text. The rotation brought the f in
Safeman's too close to the S in SECURITY so we need to adjust that.
Click and hold down the left mouse button and drag the text to where
ever you like (except outside the window). Position the text like this:
NOTE:
When moving objects first make sure the right layer is active! If you
don't, something other than you intended starts to move.
With the text
in position it is now time to spice it up a bit. Make sure the right
layer is active (it should be) and select the Text tool.
• Click
in the image to bring up the text edit box
•
Highlight the initial S (highlighting text in Photoshop is done in
the same fashion as in a word processor)
• Set the
font size to 75 (you may have to adjust the position of the text so
the f doesn't hit the text below)
• Set the
base line (bottom box below the font style drop down list box) to -10
• Click OK
If you have
done everything right the image should now look something like his:
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