hi chan! hope you're doing well! i wanted to ask a quick question : there's this like text effect where the font seems to be like carved / punched out of whatever the bg of the graphic is. you did it in your greenlighte commission (yes from 3 yrs ago ... stalker alert oops). is there anyway you could do a quick tutorial on this effect? or maybe tell me what i should look up for a tutorial? thank you either way, i hope you have a good day!
hello my friend!! first off, sorry for taking so long to get around to answering this one, admittedly i haven't been keeping the best track of this blog as of recent, but that changes today! the effect i used on that promo's typography is one of my favourites: simple, but super effective, especially when used with more collage-ish or bold, to-the-point graphics with minimalist colour palettes. the best part is that it takes literal seconds once you're familiar with the process:
once you've got your text ready, double click on the layer as its listed in your sidebar! (if you can't find this, shoot me another mssg - it's very likely just an issue of the layout of your photoshop! [ or if you don't use ps at all, let me know and i'll see if i can translate it efficiantly to other programs!! i'm always up for a challenge] )
from there, you'll have a "layer style" window pop up, and in here you can find all kinds of funky effects you can apply to your assets. for this particular effect though, you'll wanna tick the "inner shadow" effect. and that's it! boom. done. from there, it's simply a matter of messing around with what you like best and what feels right for you!! playing around with the contour option also lets you get some super interesting shapes too :]
if it was the other effect you were looking for, it's the same process!! however, this time you also tick "stroke" to give your text an outline (ignore the fact i have 3 of them. gulp), and then change the layer style to overlay & the fill opacity to whatever you like, but i usually keep it around the 40-70 mark to make it look sorta glassy kind of opaque! ( i added a little bit of colour variation to the bg to demonstrate the way the overlay n opacity can really make it pop against other assets!! ) again, messing with all of these settings can give you a whole bunch of different outcomes, so experiment! figure out what works best for you and your graphics!
thank you very much for your ask, trusting i havent answered it too late, i hope it's easy to follow & you get some use out of it :] i always feel like i'm a poor explainer bwahha <3
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