Type Perspective

With using the Adobe Photoshop CS3, you can even give your type a perspective. Yes, you will learn the perspective effect on your type that will give a really cool effect in this Photoshop tutorial. When you choose to warp your type layer, you will find out that the letters will always bend the shape to some degree even you have already set the bend slider to 0 point. Even using the perspective function that you can easily find under the edit menu’s transform submenu can give you the illusion of the text disappearing into the distance more accurately, you need to understand that the effect cannot work for a type layer. This Photoshop CS3 will help you to do it. 

Rasterize the layer and also turn the letter into pixels to use perspective transformation, then the characters will blur as you change the angles. However, now you can add more realistic perspective to type and also preserve the crisp edges by simply converting the type layer to a shape layer. If you are converting the type to shapes, it will turn the type layer into a layer with a colored fill as well as a linked vector mask that shows the outline of the letters. The outline itself is actually a temporary path. The text is no longer editable. However, you can still alter the vector mask, add layer styles, or use all of the transformation tools to change the look of your type. Here is the Photoshop CS3 tutorial about how to add perspective to type.

1.    Click the type tool. Select the font family, size, style, color, and justification.

2.    Click in the image, then, type the text. Click the commit button.

3.    Click layer – type – convert to shape. After that, the type layer in the layers palette will change into a fill and vector mask.

4.    Click edit – transform path – perspective. The text will have a bounding box with anchor points.

5.    Click the top corner anchors and do not forget to drag it toward the center of top anchor. The text will appear to be lying down on a perspective plane.

6.    Click commit. The text will retain its sharp edges no matter if it appears in a perspective plane.

7.    Click the background layer. You will view the text without any mask outline.

 The key to maximize this effect is on step 5. You can play with all of the anchor points to get the perfect effect. Adjusting the anchor point will give you a different perspective plane. See you in the next Photoshop tutorial.

M.A.H.

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