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Thursday, April 12th, 2007 – running time 10:22
Pimp my text!! We've all seen those car and videogame ads with the pimped out chromed text effect. Guess what? You don't need to go out and pay professional designers thousands of dollars for it. All you need to invest is about 10 minutes and watch this episode of Pixel Perfect and see how easy it is to get that nice shiney sparkly chrome effect.

Highlights
Peter Heinrich ( 1:39, 1:39 ) blank screen ( 1:55, 1:55 ) rectangle ( 2:46, 2:46 ) raster ( 2:38, 2:38 ) Peter Heinrich ( 1:39, 1:39 ) blank screen ( 1:55, 1:55 ) rectangle ( 2:46, 2:46 ) raster ( 2:38, 2:38 )

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" there jay Allison C you -- Revision 3. I was hoping that I can just ask a small -- you to go to revision3.com. Slash server. Spent a couple minutes of your time investment a couple of questions it's completely optional add anonymous to help us it's no use the fans a little bit better. So we can improve our program. Again it'll be the least sample surveys -- taken no help us a great deal. Thanks for your support."

" yeah and."

" I love of the pixel perfect -- on shall I show you all kinds of -- to optics. Howard thank my sponsors godaddy -- Geisel. Holds two outside the set up your domain name and even design a site for you and if you enter a code pixel to recognize screen right now. When you check out of your road dot com a domain name you can have it for just 695. A year incredible deal. Some restrictions apply all that stuff is on it -- guys -- gonna godaddy.com. For all your content it needs. They show want to talk about something that a lot of people last especially judge Ohio -- and Peter Heinrich he's. It lets you Chrome the Chrome text in particular now look around you see a lot of signed with Chrome text especially car ads in games. This nice shiny Chrome text. -- going to do for you today. A year industry appetite big blank screen and get them back in CS two that they are relevant here -- you maybe didn't upgrade -- I want to show you these things so it. You'll understand right off the bat if you can squeeze it used to see. In the near future well -- completely switched to CS three so I think you should go out and that upgrade soon. I think radeon this mean I'm gonna type in some text. Put my car's radio in the center and a type been. Pixel. And a lack came up with that but that's -- the good thing views aside right there in the center right in the middle there. Okay so now. I'm gonna go ahead and and restaurants that because I know it it looks good. And I -- that right and -- raster right to type so attended into actual pixels. Now. And later on top of this above I'm gonna create a big rectangle as -- is going to encompass my words does sex so. That's centered about like that. Analytical and stroke this and stroked is and I guess they. A thirty attract theory -- with a thirty pixels should be just about the width of the letters on the screen on the outside. Go and do it any game it is nice big fat stroke and it's good to select it. And -- emerged is down that's emerged down to the two of them become a single there. Now hold down my command key control on the PCR product pick on the preview icon would turn into -- selection. If -- selection -- say save selection. Davis election turns it into an alpha channel. But there. Rather the channel I have to go practicing before Obama -- Norway. And output to. -- your -- pixel perfect. I would get a little color just to soften up those edges of movement -- because gambler. Here and -- of RR five that sounds good just to soften up the little edges on the sides click okay. Go back to my RGB. And in my -- create a layer above the the little logo and I'm gonna go ahead and fill that with a 50% gray. That's nice neutral density click okay there's my 50% gray. To this layer fifty Andrea give it another felt. Render lighting effects now lighting effects I have the ability to create these nice little love spotlight -- I'm going here and that's during the flight source -- further in. And I -- this nice effect happening right in there. And right now it's just creating a spotlight on the great way to here at the bottom and as we know I have movement that texture channel. I can use the channel the mask for the suspect I'm gonna choose that -- to channel that created a second ago. And -- that and right here in a preview we see that we now see they shadows and highlights of the pixel perfect with the square around it. Being lit up by the the spotlight they click okay and there is the effect now."

" looks like little vacuum form plastic right we want to make -- like Chrome so I'm -- one of my adjustments and go into. Hurts. Now. Last show I introduced yesterday at the show -- is when I changed -- to -- when there is a window that you should have in your machines today. When I'm gonna do it and repositioned collars and push. This -- away at that that which created this whole effect not gonna -- by just clicking on the middle line imminent pullout another little handle bring it down. And -- of the on going up. And another on going down basically created the roller coaster kind of an effect that we see right there onscreen in an accident these little more and we could see with what happens don't know like. Chrome back there it's given that that's shining eyes so I've got all the effect that I want to think that that looks good I click okay there's my effect. So now. I'm gonna go ahead and clip this with the actual logo and all about money out. My option key we all that a piece he couldn't and -- hand going up and down Leo. That'll -- this mean feat when hold on a modify key data option -- going to change their behaviors and now he's he would go between two layers as a little. Pursue change I described as an earlier episode what's happening here -- it -- group. -- between those and now you can see that the Chrome is it visible inside the lettuce and going to be layer styles form letters themselves and -- a little stroked himself idea. Little struck on the outside but not read an -- given my black. And not to read let's go down to about one. So it's just a little. Tiny hint of a line just to separate that. From background that there and a little model given little option which is to find the drop shadow it's an increase that distance ever so slightly. And click okay so now we have this nice effect happening there. Now my background. My background here I got black and choose -- nice blue for my. Background color and in the background with a little gradient. That'll radial gradient stripped down from black to blue. That's we have a little cornerback now it's not really see this Chrome affect so none lay on top of all of these and going there an adults -- So Tim I 'cause the black and white make quite the foreground and get my paintbrush. And it's."

" A small brush it's a a thirteen that's a good side and a little bit code to -- Is is that it'll affect my dad and my brush engine. And -- opponent out I'm two of my shape and I was gonna -- about that other dynamics and say give -- afraid. That if fade out. And I got done 215. That there might be a little too much Julia that's much too much has -- that down to say 25. That's -- that's going to be like that's pretty good maybe we'll make a 35. 35. I've put them back and well. And not like right here and -- corner of the -- then click right there come up in this direction right here hold on my shift key to constrain it and click the click and click. I get this nice little street that ran out of pixels. Or ran out of precious at 35 steps. The book -- two point click again come in the opposite direction hold on a shift key and click. And line going that way. Go back in time the rush out and say that's make it. They get 1818. Click in the same spot again right there come an angle perpendicular to the other two. Strokes hold on shift key and click. Click in the original spot goes straight above -- opposite side shift click and this is nice little tiny sparkles. And India. And of my text I can duplicate that. And let's move this one over two -- here at the top of the and we had these and I -- sparkles that you want a little affection to this we could this to say go ahead and open another image here. And I have an image that's to say -- and here. -- image from San Francisco. Who painted ladies. And that's just drag this right into our scene. Here it is now I'm going to lose the Elvis so -- encompasses the entire scene so let's go in here and to a little scale on -- shift key to constrain it. And there you go through we have this nice big senior and a clip that. With the letters to going to come down here and click right in there now it's kind of obliterated optics so we can kind of bring down the capacity for that there has -- does this is the little hint of the reflection. And has to move it up so we get the reflections I the other and here we see that we had this nice little Chrome. -- with little sparkles. And a little reflection from some scene outside idea of the logo. I hope you learned something there remember it's all little steps in between little tweak here and there we'll give it totally different effects it's up for the unifying these -- now playing. That's -- is that there play don't think of it does work it -- plain. -- learn something today -- in the next show."

" there jay Allison C you -- Revision 3. I was hoping that I can just ask a small -- you to go to revision3.com. Slash server. Spent a couple minutes of your time investment a couple of questions it's completely optional add anonymous to help us it's no use the fans a little bit better. So we can improve our program. Again it'll be the least sample surveys -- taken no help us a great deal. Thanks for your support."

" yeah and."

" I love of the pixel perfect -- on shall I show you all kinds of -- to optics. Howard thank my sponsors godaddy -- Geisel. Holds two outside the set up your domain name and even design a site for you and if you enter a code pixel to recognize screen right now. When you check out of your road dot com a domain name you can have it for just 695. A year incredible deal. Some restrictions apply all that stuff is on it -- guys -- gonna godaddy.com. For all your content it needs. They show want to talk about something that a lot of people last especially judge Ohio -- and Peter Heinrich he's. It lets you Chrome the Chrome text in particular now look around you see a lot of signed with Chrome text especially car ads in games. This nice shiny Chrome text. -- going to do for you today. A year industry appetite big blank screen and get them back in CS two that they are relevant here -- you maybe didn't upgrade -- I want to show you these things so it. You'll understand right off the bat if you can squeeze it used to see. In the near future well -- completely switched to CS three so I think you should go out and that upgrade soon. I think radeon this mean I'm gonna type in some text. Put my car's radio in the center and a type been. Pixel. And a lack came up with that but that's -- the good thing views aside right there in the center right in the middle there. Okay so now. I'm gonna go ahead and and restaurants that because I know it it looks good. And I -- that right and -- raster right to type so attended into actual pixels. Now. And later on top of this above I'm gonna create a big rectangle as -- is going to encompass my words does sex so. That's centered about like that. Analytical and stroke this and stroked is and I guess they. A thirty attract theory -- with a thirty pixels should be just about the width of the letters on the screen on the outside. Go and do it any game it is nice big fat stroke and it's good to select it. And -- emerged is down that's emerged down to the two of them become a single there. Now hold down my command key control on the PCR product pick on the preview icon would turn into -- selection. If -- selection -- say save selection. Davis election turns it into an alpha channel. But there. Rather the channel I have to go practicing before Obama -- Norway. And output to. -- your -- pixel perfect. I would get a little color just to soften up those edges of movement -- because gambler. Here and -- of RR five that sounds good just to soften up the little edges on the sides click okay. Go back to my RGB. And in my -- create a layer above the the little logo and I'm gonna go ahead and fill that with a 50% gray. That's nice neutral density click okay there's my 50% gray. To this layer fifty Andrea give it another felt. Render lighting effects now lighting effects I have the ability to create these nice little love spotlight -- I'm going here and that's during the flight source -- further in. And I -- this nice effect happening right in there. And right now it's just creating a spotlight on the great way to here at the bottom and as we know I have movement that texture channel. I can use the channel the mask for the suspect I'm gonna choose that -- to channel that created a second ago. And -- that and right here in a preview we see that we now see they shadows and highlights of the pixel perfect with the square around it. Being lit up by the the spotlight they click okay and there is the effect now."

" looks like little vacuum form plastic right we want to make -- like Chrome so I'm -- one of my adjustments and go into. Hurts. Now. Last show I introduced yesterday at the show -- is when I changed -- to -- when there is a window that you should have in your machines today. When I'm gonna do it and repositioned collars and push. This -- away at that that which created this whole effect not gonna -- by just clicking on the middle line imminent pullout another little handle bring it down. And -- of the on going up. And another on going down basically created the roller coaster kind of an effect that we see right there onscreen in an accident these little more and we could see with what happens don't know like. Chrome back there it's given that that's shining eyes so I've got all the effect that I want to think that that looks good I click okay there's my effect. So now. I'm gonna go ahead and clip this with the actual logo and all about money out. My option key we all that a piece he couldn't and -- hand going up and down Leo. That'll -- this mean feat when hold on a modify key data option -- going to change their behaviors and now he's he would go between two layers as a little. Pursue change I described as an earlier episode what's happening here -- it -- group. -- between those and now you can see that the Chrome is it visible inside the lettuce and going to be layer styles form letters themselves and -- a little stroked himself idea. Little struck on the outside but not read an -- given my black. And not to read let's go down to about one. So it's just a little. Tiny hint of a line just to separate that. From background that there and a little model given little option which is to find the drop shadow it's an increase that distance ever so slightly. And click okay so now we have this nice effect happening there. Now my background. My background here I got black and choose -- nice blue for my. Background color and in the background with a little gradient. That'll radial gradient stripped down from black to blue. That's we have a little cornerback now it's not really see this Chrome affect so none lay on top of all of these and going there an adults -- So Tim I 'cause the black and white make quite the foreground and get my paintbrush. And it's."

" A small brush it's a a thirteen that's a good side and a little bit code to -- Is is that it'll affect my dad and my brush engine. And -- opponent out I'm two of my shape and I was gonna -- about that other dynamics and say give -- afraid. That if fade out. And I got done 215. That there might be a little too much Julia that's much too much has -- that down to say 25. That's -- that's going to be like that's pretty good maybe we'll make a 35. 35. I've put them back and well. And not like right here and -- corner of the -- then click right there come up in this direction right here hold on my shift key to constrain it and click the click and click. I get this nice little street that ran out of pixels. Or ran out of precious at 35 steps. The book -- two point click again come in the opposite direction hold on a shift key and click. And line going that way. Go back in time the rush out and say that's make it. They get 1818. Click in the same spot again right there come an angle perpendicular to the other two. Strokes hold on shift key and click. Click in the original spot goes straight above -- opposite side shift click and this is nice little tiny sparkles. And India. And of my text I can duplicate that. And let's move this one over two -- here at the top of the and we had these and I -- sparkles that you want a little affection to this we could this to say go ahead and open another image here. And I have an image that's to say -- and here. -- image from San Francisco. Who painted ladies. And that's just drag this right into our scene. Here it is now I'm going to lose the Elvis so -- encompasses the entire scene so let's go in here and to a little scale on -- shift key to constrain it. And there you go through we have this nice big senior and a clip that. With the letters to going to come down here and click right in there now it's kind of obliterated optics so we can kind of bring down the capacity for that there has -- does this is the little hint of the reflection. And has to move it up so we get the reflections I the other and here we see that we had this nice little Chrome. -- with little sparkles. And a little reflection from some scene outside idea of the logo. I hope you learned something there remember it's all little steps in between little tweak here and there we'll give it totally different effects it's up for the unifying these -- now playing. That's -- is that there play don't think of it does work it -- plain. -- learn something today -- in the next show."