Format Text In Photoshop With Kerning and Tracking - Eric Renno. Photoshop does a great job of formatting text and can be quite intuitive. Sometimes however you have to get stuck in a finesse it yourself. In this Photoshop tutorial video, I take a look at kerning and tracking before finishing off the text effect with a few Layer Styles and Blend Mode combinations. Thank you for your support! About the author Eric Renno wrote 219 articles on this blog. Eric’s background in video editing with Adobe Premier led to his interest, and then obsession, with Photoshop.
Known as only “TipSquirrel” for two years, Eric ‘went public’ when he was a finalist in The Next Adobe Photoshop Evangelist competition. While still taking on some freelance work, Eric has recently become a Lecturer at Peterborough’s Media and Journalism Centre where he enjoys sharing his knowledge as well as learning new skills. Photoshop Compositing Secrets: Extracting Hair.
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I actually stumbled upon this by accident while playing around with settings, which is why I always encourage experimenting. You never know what you will find. I will start this tutorial by creating a file with the dimensions 512 X242. We need to have some sort of background so I will make a simple gradient. I used a light shade of gray (hex#CCCCCC) for the foreground tile and a yellow (hex#FFFF66) for the background tile and pulled from bottom to top for the gradient. Next we will need some text. Use the following settings for Blending Options, Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Outer Glow and Bevel and Emboss.
With any luck at all you will end up with something that looks like this. One of the cool things about this layer style is that it will take on the colors of whatever background you are using.