Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

Create a gold logo with ALIEN SKIN EYE CANDY 6
Eye Candy 6 from Alien Skin helps you create a
diverse range of designs and specialty effects. You
can easily build glass-like buttons for a web interface,
add depth to stylize a logo, design custom titles, or
even simulate natural phenomena, such as fire and
smoke. You can create metal, gel, or animal fur
textures simply by moving the sliders. You can even
add a drop shadow to text and make it converge in
perspective. Eye Candy 6 includes 30 filters you can
use and combine to make designs come to life. The
filters perform complex simulations to render detailed
images, and the results can be easier to accomplish
than using the filters built into Photoshop alone.
You can design a logo that looks like gold with only
minimal steps, save it, and then place that golden logo
on any image. This task uses a custom shape. You can
use your signature, an existing logo, or any other
design on a transparent layer as a starting point.
With 1,500 presets that you can use and edit to fit
your particular design, experimentation is key to
designing with Eye Candy 6.
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1 Open a new document.
2 Click the New Layer button to
add a new empty layer.
3 Click the Custom Shape tool.
4 Click the Shape drop-down menu
and select a custom shape.
5 Click the drop-down menu and
select Pixels.
6 Click and drag out the shape on
the transparent layer.
7 Ô+click (Ctrl+click) the layer
mask icon to select the shape.
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The shape is selected on the
transparent layer.
8 Click Filter.
9 Click Alien Skin Eye Candy 6: Text
and Selections.
0 Click Chrome.
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