assignment
Type and custom shapes + Layer Styles
description of assignment
There are two parts to this assignment. The first part involves using type and adding layer styles such as a drop shadow and bevel and emboss. The second part is using custom shape tools, making a new layer for each custom shape and adding layer styles to custom shapes.
Objectives:
To read and follow directions
To create a Photoshop document according to directions
To use the Typing Tool to create and color type
To use the Custom Shape Tool to create custom shapes on separate layers
To resize type using the Free Transform command
To apply Layer Styles to a type layer
1. Open photoshop. If photoshop is not already open, in the finder menu bar, go to Go>Applications>Adobe Photoshop CS3
Go to Window>Workspace>Essentials or Design
2. Go to File>New>Name: type your name_typing tool + layer styles
width: 10 inches (not pixels)
height:10 inches
resolution: 100
color mode: rgb
background contents: white
click OK
Typing your name on a layer
1. Click on the T in the tools palette and select the Horizontal Type Tool
2. Click once inside the document window. Do not click and drag.
3. In the Options Bar, select a Typeface, Point Size, and Color
4. Type your first name (and last name if you wish)
5. Click on the check mark on the top menu
6. Resize: go to Edit>Free Transform. Scale and resize your name.
7. Click the check mark when you have what you want or the cancel button if it’s not what you want.
Applying Layer Styles
1. Look at the Layers Palette and be sure the layer with your name on it is still highlighted
2. In the Photoshop menu bar, go to Layer>Layer Style
3. Go to Drop Shadow. Click OK when you have what you want.
Apply another Layer Style
1. In the Photoshop menu bar, go to Layer>Layer Style
2. Apply bevel & emboss
Save your work
Make 4 different layers with your name in different typefaces and with different layer styles
1. Repeat and create 3 more layers with your name using a different typeface, color, and size on each layer
2. Apply a different layer style to each layer
Now, warp type on each layer by using the Warp Type Tool
Remember, you can click the "eyeballs" off and on to work with individual layers more easily.
To finish, apply a background color using the Paint Bucket Tool
Save your work into your folder
Assessment
1. Correct number of type layers2. Correct layer styles
3. Warp Tool used on all layers
4. Backgroud layer is colored
Part two
Create another Photoshop document using the same specifications as the one you just finished.
Use the Custom Shape Tool to create 7 different custom shapes with 7 different colors on 7 different layers. Apply a different layer style to each custom shape layer. Apply these layer styles: drop shadow, bevel and emboss, outer glow, gradient overlay (click on Gradient: to see all the different gradients), and 3 different pattern overlays.
Be sure you make a new layer for each Custom Shape.
Add a color to the background layer so that the outer glow shows up.
Save this as Your Name_Custom Shapes + Layer Styles.
