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Get paid for commercial fashion, magazine & product advertising design?!?  Yes you!  Learn the skills of Madison Avenue Advertising Designers here. (opens in new window)

Note that they are the same as the other tutorials in this mini-series. This is because we are designing for a fictional promo magazine.

Use your I-dropper again and choose a color from another document using our same overall theme. Now fill the background layer with this color.

Now drag the text layer logo from one of the previous tutorials (an open document). You can drag straight from the layers palette (cool) when you have the source document selected (as shown) into the new document.

Now link the new text layer with the background layer. Select the background layer (you have to) and now you can go ahead and align the text layer to the background layer (when on the moVe tool).

Now link the new text layer with the background layer. Select the background layer (you have to) and now you can go ahead and align the text layer to the background layer (when on the moVe tool).

Create a new text layer with the ampersand (?) symbol ‘@’. Is that what it’s called?! Anyhoo...enlarge it in the Characters palette or in the Text options bar. Make it large. We want it to blend in once again using the global color theme and this time making it really light (green) for a fill.

If you want to keep the same layer effects you can duplicate the layer and then modify the size, etc. Do this by dragging the logo layer to the new layer icon. Now on the TText tool go ahead and enter the text editing field and select the entire text. Now make it smaller in the Font Size field (there is no set size...just ‘feel’ it out). Enter some new text.

If you didn’t know, you can go ahead and delete layer effects. Because we duplicated the layer, the FX are retained but I don’t want to keep them so I can drag “Effects” directly to the trash can where Oscar the Grouch can do whatever he wants with them (...in live video action here).

If the @ sign is too strong (you should have a visual ‘feel’ for it) go ahead and reduce its opacity. We want it to ‘blend’ in more with the background as if it’s a subtle afterthought.

Now organize these layers in a layer set.

Use the polygonal lasso tool and create a similar shape as shown. I’m holding down the Shift key to get the 45 degree angles where necessary. Now create a new layer in the layers palette. You are going to fill this selection on the new (invisible) layer with any foreground color.

The tutorial continues....