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Custom Text Brushes

 

Using custom brushes to create interesting design elements.

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. He has earned numerous Photoshop awards in design and illustration and has contributed writing to Photoshop User Magazine and PhotoshopElementsUser.com. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, Photoshop TV.

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6 Comments

  1. Mia said on — April 13, 2008 @ 3:47 pm

    Hallo!!!

    Thanks for the tutorial, I REALLY needed it domo arigato!

  2. Scott said on — April 15, 2008 @ 2:00 pm

    Corey,

    Normally your tutorials are right on the $$$. By skipping the first step or so, it negates the rest of the tutorial for people wanting to experiment with your concept. Even by creating a background and a background copy, I have no idea how you got thaty FX on the typing layer and as a result the “X” will not be on its own layer and it reverts back to the initial text for the foreground.

  3. Dave Walter said on — June 20, 2008 @ 11:12 pm

    I understand all but when you highlight two layers at the same time to creat a layer set.What key to you push on a P C to do this??

    Thanks Dave

  4. Alexander said on — July 7, 2008 @ 4:27 pm

    Similar to leaf-tutorial….. und warum!!! ))))

  5. Calvin said on — October 6, 2008 @ 9:00 pm

    Shift then click selects more than one layer

  6. Leroy said on — March 3, 2009 @ 1:16 pm

    i love this tutorial.. its was easy…. so scott its not everything is handed to you on a slive plate……..

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