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corndog16
Joined: 29 Apr 2011
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 Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:39 pm Post subject: Adding text to a photo (advanced?) |
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Hey, I would like to manipulate the attached photo so it appears to have white, slightly indented text on the green surface but keeping the water droplets on top. Is this even possible? and if it is, What is the process to accomplish this (is there a tutorial somewhere?)
Thanks
(yes it has a watermark. I want to see if it can be done before I buy the image.)
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renata
Joined: 26 Nov 2010
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Location: Australia
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Hi, there are lots of things you can try. Assuming that your text is in a layer by itself, above the water droplets. Here are some things to play with:
1) Adjust the opacity of that layer (there's a box at the top of the layers panel).
2) Add effects to the text (Select text layer, then use the 'fx' icon at the bottom). Look at bevel, innser shadow, drop shadow for a start. Each effect also has its own adjustments,
3) Did you know that you can get some interesting transparent effects by removing the detail for the actual text and just keeping the effects? You adjust the 'fill' box instead of of the 'opacity' box.
4) There are lots of layer styles, some are especially for text (window->styles)
5) You can distort, warp and do lots of weird things to text, just like you can to anything else. e.g edit->free transform.
6) For certain effects (e.g filters) you may need to do something to the text first (e.g convert to smart object, or rasterize - right click on text layer to do this).
7) Oh, andone of my favourites, you can adjust how a layer interacts with the layer below. Have a look at the top of the layers panel, there's a drop down box which says "Normal". Try changing this to something else. Overlay and soft light are good to start.
Good luck, and have fun.
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renata
Joined: 26 Nov 2010
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Location: Australia
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Oh, and you can also try putting the text UNDERNEATH the water layer (you might need to double click the background layer to turn it into an ordinary layer first), then changing the layer modes.
Sorry, I was a bit too eager to answer the first time - you should probably try things with the text layer underneath first, since it's the water bubbles you want to keep.
Other people should have more and different suggestions...
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Auieos
Joined: 29 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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Great tips Renata.
@corndog16
May be very hard to get it looking natural due to the principles of water refraction and the fact that water would naturally find and lay in any indent.
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