this tutorial is very easy, but it produces really great looking
text;
although this effect can be applied to text of almost any font, it works
best using tall, elegant, medium thickness, condensed, sans serif fonts;
create a new image: 24RGB, background 100% black, 500x300 pixels, 300 dpi;
to create some white text, select the text tool;
choose a font from the Property bar and change the font size to fill half
of the image, then create your text(here GoudyHandtooled Bt 100 points);
centre the text to the image using Object/Arrange/Align and Distribute,
center to document; select the object Picker tool and make sure that the
mode is Scale/Size mode (square handles): to quickly switch between
transform modes, click repeatedly on the object to change the handles;
hold down the Shift key, drag the top centre node upwards until it the text
covers about 2/3 of the vertical space of the image: the actual amount of
vertical scale will depend on the initial font and point size you used;
double click on the text object to apply the size transformation (or right
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select the text object with the object Picker tool then duplicate
it (CTRL+D);
if not open already, open your Objects Docker to see your objects, select
the topmost text object and, using the keyboard arrow keys, shift it one
or two pixels up and to the left (one press = 1 pixel);
double click on the fill swatch on the status bar to open the Select fill
dialogue box, choose the Fountain Fill swatch (second icon from the left)
then click the Edit button to display the Fountain Fill dialogue box;
choose this setting:
type = linear, color blend = two color, from = 100% black, to = 20% black;
angle = 90;
click the Lock Transparency icon on either the Object Docker or the Mask/Objects
toolbar (this prevents any fill from 'spilling' out past the object boundary);
ensure the topmost text object is selected, the use Edit/Fill to fill the
upper text object with our fountain fill;
double click the fill swatch on the status bar and edit the Fountain Fill
type;
in the Fountain Fill dialogue box, change the angle to -90 (an easy way
to do this, is to click in the angle spinner box and just add a minus sign
in front of the number);
select the lower text object in the object docker, then repeat the Edit/Fill
command to fill this object with the reverse fountain fill; |
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notes and variations:
the two objects can be grouped or combined and copied into another image;
add an extra layer between text and the background, set up some soft, feathered
masks and fill with a bright texture, add some Lens flares.... |
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| from a tutorial by David Mutch (http://www.visionary-voyager.com.au/corel/photopaint) |
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