Making dance text with Photoshop

Dance is one of the most pleasing forms of art, the same as the dance of the text is equally beautiful and practical, it can be widely used in advertising, design, newspapers and magazines. We use Photoshop can easily produce various forms of dance text, the main method is to squeeze and rotate, the effect of the dance depends on the choice of fonts, extrusion area selection and rotation angle of the settings, in the following will be described in detail.

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Figure 1 3, hold down the "CTRL" key at the same time in the layers of the layers panel click on the text layer, press the "Ctrl+shift+i" key to reverse Select, press "delete" key to delete the selected area, get color effect text (Figure 2). Then delete the type layer and press the "Ctrl+e" key to merge the layer with the background layer. Figure 2 Make the extrusion effect 1, press "M" key to select the rectangular tool, select "Dance" and then select "Distort" in the menu "Filter", select "Pinch" in the Open submenu, set "Amount" to 100 in the Open dialog box, and click OK to get the "squeeze" effect (Figure 3). The squeezing effect of the text depends on the size of the "Amount" value and the selection of the extrusion area, in which the "Amount" value determines the degree of the overall extrusion, while more artistic extrusion effect is determined by the choice of the extrusion region, fig. 4 is the extrusion effect under various different regions, From which you can summarize some specific operational experience, many practice will help you find your favorite method and style. Figure 3 2, press the "M" key again select the Rectangle tool, choose "Dance" word, and then press "CTRL+F" key repeated application of "Pinch" filter, complete the "squeeze" effect of production. Generally speaking, if you need to highlight the dance effect on one side of the text, increase the selection on the other side, and you can squeeze the local area of the text to further highlight the effect. The above process can be applied repeatedly. Figure 4 Make rotation effect Figure 5 Press the "M" key to select the Rectangle tool, select the "Dance" word, then select "Distort" in the menu "Filter", select "Twirl" in the Open submenu, set "Angle" to 50 in the Open dialog box, and click OK to complete the production. Here the angle of rotation will also directly affect the text of the final "dance" effect, according to the specific situation, the effect of setting, the final effect as shown in Figure 5. Figure 6 Through the above production, we think that the use of Photoshop to make dance text need to pay attention to some details: should first choose the appropriate font, such as XXFarEastFont-Arial, italics, cursive, and so on, its own has a certain dance characteristics, figure 6 is the above three fonts after the same treatment of the effect of the comparison chart; second, in the "squeeze" Special attention must be paid to the choice of extrusion area, and the extrusion degree "Amount" the setting of the value of the combination; third, the "rotation" angle is generally set between -120~120, its purpose is to change the "squeeze" effect, so that the character of the dance further strengthened.