Creating Custom Style in Photoshop Layers

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JIMMY HARTMAN: Hi this is Jimmy Hartman on behalf of Expert Village. And in this clip, we're going to be starting to combine all of our layer styles together in order to create a custom style for some texts that we're going to make. Okay, let's go and apply a bunch of what we've just learned here. First, I've got a new layer. I have a white background and a text layer that just has the letter I in the font Stencil Standard. Now, we're going to go ahead and create a custom-font look, a custom style for our font. So first, let's go and open our styles panel. Move this over here. Now, the overall effect I want to go for here is just kind of like a gel-type text. So we're going to go and start with the style that's going to make the biggest difference on our layer here, so I'm going to go--that would be the color overlay. Let's go and add a color overlay out because I want to make it a kind of a darkish red color here. All right. Well, that simply takes care of the color issue. Now, I'm going to go and add a drop shadow, but I'm going to uncheck Global Light and I'm going to have the shadow coming or the light source coming from the top, so it will cast a shadow straight down. I think I'll leave the rest of these options as they are. And we're going to go and add an inner shadow this time. And instead of getting this sunken look here I kinda want to increase the size or the bevel of this text without actually applying the bevel yet. So let's go ahead and uncheck Global Light. And we'll change the direction of the light to the opposite of the drop shadow, so 270 degrees. And as you can see now, it looks as though with our shadow down here, it looks as if we kinda have this beveled edge that's extruded our text almost. So that looks pretty decent. We'll move down our list here and add an inner glow and just make it--I want it to be, probably, a lighter red color, not this yellow color though. So let's go ahead and select red, and this pinkish ought to do the trick, kind of soften our edges there with a glow. And we'll leave the rest of the settings as they are--we'll increase our opacity a bit so you can see it just a little more. All right. Now, I'm going to go ahead and add a little texture to our style here by adding the satin. I'm going to go ahead and click on that. And now, this is a good one just to play around with until you kinda get the look you want. So first of all, I'm going to bring the distance up, get it offset a bit, right about there. We'll change our contour--that might look pretty good--bring our size up and change our direction here. Let's get it. All right, that should work for that.

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