Host Dr. Bill, welcome back. In this video, you'll be learning about the stroke.
The drop shadow and the character window as we take this image and converted into this image, and I can see I'm zoomed out here a little bit with my screen recording. Oh my goodness. Double click on the zoom tool.
That's going to take me 100% here. So what we're going to learn. This video is one is if you take a look at the height of the character Bluebird. It's about twice as high.
As the text below their house plans also be thrown a stroke around the outside. And then if you take a closer look down here, you'll see a drop shadow underneath house plans.
Now that we know what to do. Let's get started. So she mentioned, you should find this image in the same area as you found the link to this video.
The first thing I'm going to do is use the rectangle marquee tool and select an area here.
And change the brightness contrast is to make sure that text is really readable here. So I'm just going to select an area.
I'm gonna come up here to Image, Adjustments I'm going to choose brightness contrast and then go ahead and use the legacy. I'm going to increase the brightness and decrease the contrast and you can play around with system for Sarah, if you want. I'm just going to impress okay at
This point in time. I see. It's up to the selected like to dislike that so I'm going to go ahead and that's like these, like, there
Okay, so take a look here. We've now changed the brightness contrast now about ready to add some text, I would add Bluebird. Let me go ahead and assume my colors rose a black and white.
I want to get that Bloomberg press on my foreground color I'm going to come over here to the Color Picker window kind of getting the ballpark. And then I'm gonna come up here and pick out my exact shade and press OK.
But this time, I'm gonna go ahead and use my text tool. I've got mine at Ariel black. One of the really heavy, thick on songs and the block size and I will type them blue and burn.
It looks like if I wanted to, I could possibly increase the size of a moment 44 I can increase this just a little bit here. Yeah, maybe. Let me see what say a 48 looks like probably about 50 there would have worked out fine to there.
Okay, now how do I get the height of that text increase what to do that. I'm simply come up here to a window. And I'm going to go to character that's going to open up by the character window and I'm gonna go ahead and select my tax.
And now to increase the height. I'm just going to come down here. If I wanted to, I could say put 150 at the enter key. I'm going to go all the way to 200%
On the vertical scale.
Okay. And there we go.
Okay, now that text really is not readable and to make that text even more readable. What I'm going to do is simply I go ahead and right click on it.
I'm gonna come up here to blending options right click blended option. So I'm gonna go ahead and press the stroke.
And you can play around with it with this image here kind of pretty low quality, you're going to find me about two to three on the size. I'm just going to go with stroke size tomb and press some Ken
And I can see it looks a little pixelated here. Let me go ahead and double click on the zoom tool that's going to take me to 100% there.
Ok now and I'm going to do is come over here and add house plans.
So take a moment here. Whoops, let me undo that their
Controls evil and do that, and I'm gonna go ahead and press on the Type Tool and I'm going to type in house.
And
Okay, first thing looks like I need to do is decrease the font size. So let me come along and see what know
36 looks like and that's looking pretty good. And then I'm going to go ahead and come back to my window. Go to my character window, and I'm going to take the subway back. I'm gonna go just a little bit say 120% not the 230
OK. And now to get that shade of good momentarily close this to get that I take a look house plans kind of match the color of the birdhouse. So do that I'm going to use my color picker my eyedropper here and I'm just going to go ahead and find some
Oh, wherever I click I can see that's going to become my foreground color. I'm not going to go ahead and use my type tool. I'm going to select this text.
On the press on the foreground color and press okay and let me go ahead and select it. Okay, now to really make that texts and jump out like we did with Bluebird. I'm going to go ahead and right click on it, I'm gonna come up to London options.
I'm going to choose a stroke. And again, I'm just going to use the two and press okay
Okay. One thing you notice here, if I want to make this match, so that the left and right kind of more perfectly match one easy way to do that.
I can sit there and play around with the bond size, but let's assume I don't want to increase that much as I can simply come right back here to the character window.
And rather than men. It's a 50, it would be zero, I can go ahead and simply increase them to try and 75 where I could try say 100 it look like like more like 75 was probably a little bit better. There
Okay. One other thing I'm going to show you here is so the drop shadow, but then also today. Well, let me come over here, even to a blue bird.
And the stroke. So mine. I believe was set to the outside. Take a look at this and maybe I can this one here. It'd be a pure the options you would do inside
And that's going to really make that texting smaller or here would be center but I've got mine on the outside so that black or that stroke goes around the outside. It doesn't really affect
Doesn't really make my font skinnier. Okay. And let me go ahead and close out there. Some both of these. I had the stroke set to the outside.
One last thing here. Let's go ahead and add a drop shadow the house plans. And again, that's just a right click on actually here's how spines. I'm showing you right layer right click on that come up to blending options.
I'm going to choose a drop shadow check there. I'm gonna go ahead and press and load times I like to have my drop shadow come from on the top left. I'm just going to go 10 1010 I've got this about 50 on the episode today and I'm gonna go ahead and press and
Then it's going to turn off.
The stroke and the drop shadow. So there's kind of the difference there. And I think you're going to really find between the two of those that really makes that text, much more easier to read.
Well, hopefully this video, you're really kind of the purposes, was to briefly touch on the stroke and the job shadow, but probably more importantly, the character window where you can adjust the space in between characters.
And also the vertical scale. And there's a few other parameters, you might want to look at as far as what catch the next video. Thank you.