Blood Effect in Adobe Photoshop

1. Create new file with 72 PPI and white background. The mode has to be Grayscale. Type the text with thick font.

2. Select > Load Selection

(Choose Layer Transparency)

3. Layer > Flatten Image

4. Select > Inverse (...)

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Tips For Photoshop CS2

Some Photoshop Font Preview Tips

Now that Photoshop has a nice font preview feature, you can get a glimpse of what your type faces look like right in your Character Palette menu. An extra nice touch is that the size of the font previews can be changed.

To do this choose Photoshop> Preferences> Type on the MAC. In Windows you'll find Preferences in the Edit Menu.
Ok, here are the power user shortcuts: Control-K (MAC: Command-K) brings you to Photoshop Prefs. Once there Control-9 (MAC: Command-9) will jump you to Type Prefs.

From there you'll find a new Type Preferences Dialog Box, and in it you'll see the option for three preview sizes: Small, Medium and Large. A tip here is that Small and Medium only change the size of the preview, but Large changes the size of the preview and the size of the font name as well.

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