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Thursday, March 8th, 2007 – running time 10:08
Now Playing: PixelPerfect with Bert Monroy. If this show was at a vintage movie theater, that might be the sign on the marquee outside. In this episode, Bert demonstrates how to create a marquee with lettering. The lettering is stenciled on to a thin looking, transparent plastic layer, warped and affixed to the marquee..

Bert has made his source files available for this episode available here

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Highlights
long black ( 5:41, 5:41 ) blank screen ( 1:11, 1:11 ) blue ridge ( 4:07, 4:07 ) slats ( 1:31, 1:31 ) long black ( 5:41, 5:41 ) blank screen ( 1:11, 1:11 ) blue ridge ( 4:07, 4:07 ) slats ( 1:31, 1:31 )

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" Yeah."

" Hi welcome to another episode of pixel preferable Lieberman show right for you all kinds of cool Photoshop stuff and whatever else comes to mind. Today I'm gonna do an old favorite it's been requested by quite a few you're I guess when you sort of picked you you want to little slower or whatever it is. But along have a budget to solo marquee. And it was a plastic letters that were fitted onto that marquee -- do for you today. Be these nice little plastic letters that attracts parents didn't have all kinds dimension to. So those are right here. I'm my. Little blank screen here I'm gonna pick up some tones and in this nice light beige from my format and it slightly darker. Brown from my background and put you way you gradient right in the center of this. Image right there. That's the back of the -- that's just as big. Back part now on top of that I'm curricula slats that the plastic letters are put into. And -- long. I -- to think this. I like that and let's get this light grey. And they darker grey for the background and throw them away -- and had a pack. The fact that. Now. With my. Option and command keys selected which is the alt and control when those and the drag it down. Did get a second line like that and then again. One more all the way to the bottom like this. Ago. Now I got all these little lines and from the little cut off no problem we can -- expand that effect that no problem. -- now these are the little. Plates or you'll strips at the letters are adhered to about the have to stick out of the final little bit. To create that illusion and -- going to give it of the layer style of would drop shadow. A simple dropped out right there as you can see it's separated those troops from the background. Click okay and now they have dimension to the about third dimension. Now right appear as well me to start to create -- sign. So let's go here and with black. I'm gonna type right in here I'm a -- been. -- it's okay let's go in there and let's make this bigger it make it 200 points that's a good sized right there. And the fact McCain make a little bigger and not just to a district when I only -- little bit so Google's scale -- to get it. A little bit bigger like that. Right so now. They're text so what I'm gonna do -- I'm gonna go to my -- protects warping tool. And I'm gonna bloated out because what's happening here is that this plastic is kind of like rounds just kind of not smug enough fun to the science is a little bit of -- of -- round this too. From I'd choose the one is gonna give me that which is bolts but -- this is -- putting out this way our bloated. And horizontal so what so doing it this way iTunes vertical. Fear they gave me back kind of occurred on that side. And I can give it a lot more or less so it's not so strong and that's gonna just like that. Click okay. -- now I have the basic shape that this plastic is going to take so. In a layer behind us hold down my command. He's so it can create a layer behind the currently selected later and here he's in the pendulum greet the plastic. So it's not appear at the top blue ridge and -- handle. That follows the contour of this curve right here he's following nesting contour of Korda hit the bottom -- to the site and click and drag. And there it is nice the edge of my plastic. Now that option click so I get a court appoint their go straight -- to this side and hold down my shift key to constrain it and click. They gave -- handle on the other side. Which are now going to pull out with my option flash or keep -- handle. -- the top click and drag. I bet now option click -- to -- point and holding the option -- still now want to go there and close. So now ready to -- this I can -- is a path that's going to hear it to stretched is that just a little bit like that so we have this nice curvature on both sides. So in that there let's pick a nice light gray like it is meant that told me here and go ahead and fill that stroke. -- that path -- that color. Now. Go back to -- letters and -- to -- bring on capacity for that just a little so we can see through it. Both of you. Right there as my the past now we need to give this some dimension. So -- a layer on top of the plastic there and take a nice black brush. Take a much larger size like -- phase 200 that's a good size out of my brush engine to make sure that I don't have anything turned on that I don't want. It was just a straight question and click on his side. And shift click on this side. Which created as long black streak if I want to welcome put up a little bit I'm gonna go -- clip. Clip it with. The actual -- of the plastic. -- on my option key and click between these two. To say that the idea is the black -- that's because the film capacity was to let down the capacity for that they are too. The actual plastic with low. So anything that gets clipped by it is gonna be lower capacity as well. I ought to be a little stronger I can easily go in there and duplicate that there's I have told you that beetle to parker. Now in the layer on top of the text will be high. As high -- would go straight across into the light coming in from somewhere. So that layer right above that and get white. And get my brush it does time make little smaller. And what it's total street right across here and click. That it would get this nice little highlight going across from office to bring that -- capacity. That's just a little soft little highlight like that. And I -- the clip it and it the clip that so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to give that layer a layer mask. -- ago. And then layer mask I'm seeing everything want to want to do is I'm gonna turn the plastic layer into a selection by. Command picking on its preview icon in the layer here and do an inverse. So everything else is selected to -- that. And then in the mask I fill that with black for that is now hiding the portions of that highlight outside. The plastic. Is not visible out there anymore and it's still layer I didn't really break anything and in -- the way it's still in there so now. This clear plastic that was seen these letters understands along to it right so they have to cast a shadow. I know my Texas spelled right and modify my own name so I go in there and say tight. -- Right there. Okay from now it's pixels from the duplicate that there. The one back here when I'm back I'm gonna take off. That. Warp and going to I'd say none. Of it has no war it straight up. And I know it's spelt right so going to do is I'm going to bears. Go down to rest their eyes and say hi raster -- that second layer is no longer actual text can be edited it is -- pixels. Going to want to do a few things to one I'm gonna go in there and do a little scale. And pull down. Down like that pull this corner searches matches that top corner of the latter to think it would need to bring it over that way and just kind of stretch it down like that. Click okay I'm gonna blur it going there and give and I think -- got him Blair. -- it's on like that. And bring down the capacity for that layer so it's just a little in the shadow and back there and then the portion down here right below the actual plastic I can -- hide that in mask or packages hit the lead and that there is gone so we see here is that we have this nice little sign. With these letters that are stencil onto a piece of thin plastic see through plastic Andy's -- on to design. Few steps in there and keep in mind that. It is the techniques involved in an important not the end result you might never have to dual cyanide this. But some of the techniques they used in there might apply to other things that come up in your daily work schedule which is playing around at home. Hope you learned something from that. I -- thank my sponsors godaddy.com. The guys -- will host a website. Can you don't name domain name and the even design your website for you. And sure enough there's specials. If you go in there and -- lab. Type in the code BE RT just like the -- we did today you'll get an additional 10% off of any order at godaddy.com. I hope you learn something remember. Play sit there and play the best way to learn Photoshop. Most enjoyable way. --"

" Yeah."

" Hi welcome to another episode of pixel preferable Lieberman show right for you all kinds of cool Photoshop stuff and whatever else comes to mind. Today I'm gonna do an old favorite it's been requested by quite a few you're I guess when you sort of picked you you want to little slower or whatever it is. But along have a budget to solo marquee. And it was a plastic letters that were fitted onto that marquee -- do for you today. Be these nice little plastic letters that attracts parents didn't have all kinds dimension to. So those are right here. I'm my. Little blank screen here I'm gonna pick up some tones and in this nice light beige from my format and it slightly darker. Brown from my background and put you way you gradient right in the center of this. Image right there. That's the back of the -- that's just as big. Back part now on top of that I'm curricula slats that the plastic letters are put into. And -- long. I -- to think this. I like that and let's get this light grey. And they darker grey for the background and throw them away -- and had a pack. The fact that. Now. With my. Option and command keys selected which is the alt and control when those and the drag it down. Did get a second line like that and then again. One more all the way to the bottom like this. Ago. Now I got all these little lines and from the little cut off no problem we can -- expand that effect that no problem. -- now these are the little. Plates or you'll strips at the letters are adhered to about the have to stick out of the final little bit. To create that illusion and -- going to give it of the layer style of would drop shadow. A simple dropped out right there as you can see it's separated those troops from the background. Click okay and now they have dimension to the about third dimension. Now right appear as well me to start to create -- sign. So let's go here and with black. I'm gonna type right in here I'm a -- been. -- it's okay let's go in there and let's make this bigger it make it 200 points that's a good sized right there. And the fact McCain make a little bigger and not just to a district when I only -- little bit so Google's scale -- to get it. A little bit bigger like that. Right so now. They're text so what I'm gonna do -- I'm gonna go to my -- protects warping tool. And I'm gonna bloated out because what's happening here is that this plastic is kind of like rounds just kind of not smug enough fun to the science is a little bit of -- of -- round this too. From I'd choose the one is gonna give me that which is bolts but -- this is -- putting out this way our bloated. And horizontal so what so doing it this way iTunes vertical. Fear they gave me back kind of occurred on that side. And I can give it a lot more or less so it's not so strong and that's gonna just like that. Click okay. -- now I have the basic shape that this plastic is going to take so. In a layer behind us hold down my command. He's so it can create a layer behind the currently selected later and here he's in the pendulum greet the plastic. So it's not appear at the top blue ridge and -- handle. That follows the contour of this curve right here he's following nesting contour of Korda hit the bottom -- to the site and click and drag. And there it is nice the edge of my plastic. Now that option click so I get a court appoint their go straight -- to this side and hold down my shift key to constrain it and click. They gave -- handle on the other side. Which are now going to pull out with my option flash or keep -- handle. -- the top click and drag. I bet now option click -- to -- point and holding the option -- still now want to go there and close. So now ready to -- this I can -- is a path that's going to hear it to stretched is that just a little bit like that so we have this nice curvature on both sides. So in that there let's pick a nice light gray like it is meant that told me here and go ahead and fill that stroke. -- that path -- that color. Now. Go back to -- letters and -- to -- bring on capacity for that just a little so we can see through it. Both of you. Right there as my the past now we need to give this some dimension. So -- a layer on top of the plastic there and take a nice black brush. Take a much larger size like -- phase 200 that's a good size out of my brush engine to make sure that I don't have anything turned on that I don't want. It was just a straight question and click on his side. And shift click on this side. Which created as long black streak if I want to welcome put up a little bit I'm gonna go -- clip. Clip it with. The actual -- of the plastic. -- on my option key and click between these two. To say that the idea is the black -- that's because the film capacity was to let down the capacity for that they are too. The actual plastic with low. So anything that gets clipped by it is gonna be lower capacity as well. I ought to be a little stronger I can easily go in there and duplicate that there's I have told you that beetle to parker. Now in the layer on top of the text will be high. As high -- would go straight across into the light coming in from somewhere. So that layer right above that and get white. And get my brush it does time make little smaller. And what it's total street right across here and click. That it would get this nice little highlight going across from office to bring that -- capacity. That's just a little soft little highlight like that. And I -- the clip it and it the clip that so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to give that layer a layer mask. -- ago. And then layer mask I'm seeing everything want to want to do is I'm gonna turn the plastic layer into a selection by. Command picking on its preview icon in the layer here and do an inverse. So everything else is selected to -- that. And then in the mask I fill that with black for that is now hiding the portions of that highlight outside. The plastic. Is not visible out there anymore and it's still layer I didn't really break anything and in -- the way it's still in there so now. This clear plastic that was seen these letters understands along to it right so they have to cast a shadow. I know my Texas spelled right and modify my own name so I go in there and say tight. -- Right there. Okay from now it's pixels from the duplicate that there. The one back here when I'm back I'm gonna take off. That. Warp and going to I'd say none. Of it has no war it straight up. And I know it's spelt right so going to do is I'm going to bears. Go down to rest their eyes and say hi raster -- that second layer is no longer actual text can be edited it is -- pixels. Going to want to do a few things to one I'm gonna go in there and do a little scale. And pull down. Down like that pull this corner searches matches that top corner of the latter to think it would need to bring it over that way and just kind of stretch it down like that. Click okay I'm gonna blur it going there and give and I think -- got him Blair. -- it's on like that. And bring down the capacity for that layer so it's just a little in the shadow and back there and then the portion down here right below the actual plastic I can -- hide that in mask or packages hit the lead and that there is gone so we see here is that we have this nice little sign. With these letters that are stencil onto a piece of thin plastic see through plastic Andy's -- on to design. Few steps in there and keep in mind that. It is the techniques involved in an important not the end result you might never have to dual cyanide this. But some of the techniques they used in there might apply to other things that come up in your daily work schedule which is playing around at home. Hope you learned something from that. I -- thank my sponsors godaddy.com. The guys -- will host a website. Can you don't name domain name and the even design your website for you. And sure enough there's specials. If you go in there and -- lab. Type in the code BE RT just like the -- we did today you'll get an additional 10% off of any order at godaddy.com. I hope you learn something remember. Play sit there and play the best way to learn Photoshop. Most enjoyable way. --"