Larry's Graphics Tutorials - Titles

Making a title with a Text mask

Part 3 of 3

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Our title is almost complete. There is, however, a few more things to do. So let's go to the final adjustments and see how it turns out.

Step 6

Final adjustments

Noticed that I haven't mention anything about which colour to use? Well, it is not a case of temporary amnesia or anything like that. I didn't mention any colour simply because it was not of any importance. Whatever colour you've used we are going to change it now.

• Click on the colour rectangle (box) to bring up the colour picker

Note: We are still working in the text edit box.

• Pick the colour black and click OK

As you can see you can no longer see the text.

• Click OK to close the text edit box

You can't see the text you just typed in. We are going to change that now.

• Right click on the layer and choose Effects

Shadow is the default effect. Since a black shadow is useless we will change the colour.

• Click on the black square to bring up the colour picker

You will see nothing but black colour so you have to click in the narrow window to get more colours available. Click as high up in the narrow window as you can and the choose a very light blue colour tint. You still see nothing of the text.

• Click OK to close the colour picker
• From the Mode drop down list box select Raster

Now you should be able to see the text. Somewhat faint but still, you can see it now.

• In the mid box (below Angle) set the value to 0 pixels

Now we will use a new effect: Inner glow. Select it from the top drop down list box, and then add these settings:

Mode

Luminescence

Intensity

50 %

Edge

(bottom right radio button)

• Click OK

We could of course do a lot more, and we could have done this image in several different ways. This is only one way of using a text mask.

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