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Custom Text Brushes

 

Using custom brushes to create interesting design elements.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

9 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……..

  7. pawan said on — June 7, 2010 @ 5:17 am

    thnxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx thnxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx thnxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  8. NantaPD said on — February 19, 2011 @ 1:25 am

    Thank for that useful tutorial…….

  9. feathersdesigns said on — October 14, 2011 @ 2:11 am

    great tutorials!!! thanks

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Create A Composite Layer

If you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don’t flatten the layers–use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.

Another option is to create a new layer at the top of the stack and make it active. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) each layer you want to include to make those layers active, as well. Press Option-Command-E (PC: Alt-Ctrl-E).
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