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Step Twenty: With the text layer active, click on the Add a Layer
Style icon (ƒx) at the bottom of the Layers panel, and choose Gradient
Overlay. Use the settings shown here to add a light effect
to the text. Be sure to click on the Gradient preview thumbnail,
choose the Foreground to Background preset, click OK to close
the Gradient Editor, and then check on the Reverse box. Clickand-drag
inside the document to position the center of the Gradient
Overlay where the subject’s arm meets the origin of the
cracks in the glass texture on the letter E. Click OK.
Step Twenty-One: We want to make the lettering look like
there are shards of glass breaking off, so we’ll need to make a
custom brush to create the glass shard particle effect. Create a
new document (File>New) that’s 500x500 pixels with a white
background. Grab the Lasso tool (L) in the Toolbox and draw a
selection that looks like a glass shard similar to the one we have
here. Press D to set your Foreground color to black, and then
press Option-Delete (PC: Alt-Backspace) to fill the selection with
black. Then, go to Edit>Define Brush Preset. Name the brush
when prompted and click OK.
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Step Twenty-One
Step Twenty-Two: Switch back to your working document,
and select the Brush tool (B). The new brush you just created
should be selected, but if it’s not, go to the Brush Presets panel
(Window>Brush Presets) and select it from the bottom of the list.
Open the Brush panel (Window>Brush) and click on Brush Tip
Shape. Set the Spacing to around 229%.
Step Twenty-Two
Step Twenty-Three: Next, activate Shape Dynamics. Set both
the Size Jitter and Angle Jitter to 100%. Also, check on Flip X Jitter
and Flip Y Jitter. Then, activate Scattering and check on Both
Axes. Lastly, push the Scatter amount to around 382%.
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Step Twenty-Four: If you’re using the practice files, you’ll want
to set the size of the brush to around 50 px in the Options Bar
(use a larger brush for higher resolution files). Add a Layer mask
to the text layer, and make sure
the Foreground color is set to
black. Starting at the arm of
the subject, paint around that
area so it looks like pieces of
broken glass are missing from
the lettering. Here’s a view of
the mask. You can Option-click
(PC: Alt-click) on the layer mask
thumbnail in the Layers panel
to see it in the main window.
Option-click (PC: Alt-click) again
to bring back the image.
Step Twenty-Three
Step Twenty-Four