Customizing Text in Photoshop

Customizing Text in Photoshop: many techniques, great tutorial

by seth duggan:
There’s an entire universe of typefaces available for your design and typographical needs, but some projects call for a letterform that’s a bit more customized than the fonts in your typographic tool kit. Take the case of this issue’s tutorial: a movie poster for a fictitious thriller not coming soon to a theater near you. For this torrid suspense tale set in the remote backwoods along a wilderness river, the letter “y” in the word “Type” needs to be transformed into a fishhook. We’ll explore one way to go about this by turning an existing text layer into a new work path, and then modifying it using the Pen tool to create a precise vector outline. Along the way, we’ll also explore a couple of timesaving tips for applying layer styles and changing type attributes on several layers at once. go to the website for the tutorials