This installment of Photoshop for Designers explains how to create beautiful typographic effects and challenges designers to expand their creative mindset with type. Author Nigel French describes how to combine letters and imagery and how to illustrate ideas with type, often with just a few simple tweaks to the letterforms themselves. The final chapter contains a few creative projects, such as fashioning portraits and maps comprised entirely of type.

Topics include:

• Illustrating with shape layers, layer masks, and clipping masks
  
• Modifying letterforms
  
• Using a displacement map
  
• Illustrating words
  
• Creating effects such as smoky or fiery type
  
• Working with brushes and type
  
• Warping text
  
• Using a Vanishing Point grid
  
• Incorporating repetition and pattern
  
• Layering type

Illustrating a concept with shape layers and layer masks (5m 38s)
Illustrating a concept with a clipping mask (1m 27s)
Modifying letterforms (4m 30s)
Replacing letters with pictures (9m 51s)
Combining type with simple imagery (2m 47s)

Illustrating a concept using transparency (2m 2s)
Creating a type poster (4m 52s)
Illustrating a concept using blurred text 3m 19s)

Combining type and shape (5m 50s)
Using a displacement map (5m 46s)
Creating chocolate text (8m 26s)
Putting a picture inside type (2m 59s)
Putting type in a picture (12m 49s)
Creating torn type (2m 35s)

Creating smoky type (8m 13s)
Creating fiery type (5m 8s)
Creating entwined type (5m 50s)

Creating scattered leaves type (8m 42s)
Creating coffee bean type (7m 22s)
Creating sand grain type (4m 4s)
Stroking a type path 6m (52s)

Creating a nostalgic logo: part one (9m 39s)
Creating a nostalgic logo: part two (4m 59s)
Creating a nostalgic logo: part three (9m 59s)
Warping type (13m 33s)

Warping text for dramatic perspective (12m 2s)
Using a Vanishing Point grid (3m 31s)
Combining Illustrator perspective grids (5m 10s)

Creating a basic 3D type design (6m 35s)
Illustrating a concept with 3D (5m 38s)
Using a Vanishing Point grid with 3D type (5m 9s)

Creating a simple letterpress effect (5m 18s)
Creating a letterpress wood type effect (5m 49s)
Creating a distressed wood type effect (7m 54s)

Using Liquify to create type patterns (5m 27s)
Creating a typographic wallpaper (9m 56s)
Making abstract patterns from letterforms (3m 27s)
Working with repetition and pattern (2m 1s)

Working with multi-layered type (5m 10s)
Layering type on a spiral (9m 18s)
Creating a book cover with multi-layered type (2m 44s)

Creating a type portrait with multiple layers (3m 29s)
Creating a type portrait with hand-drawn type (3m 30s)
Creating a typographic map (7m 57s)
Creating an environmental alphabet (6m 59s)

Goodbye (29s)

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