Requirements and description How files are organized How to install styles Using Electro Text Styles Fonts which works best with Electro styles How to apply style Cycle through font list Customizing styles Show/Hide style effect Change settings for Layer Effect Scale Layer Effects Scale Pattern Overlay Styles Preview
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Requirements and description
There isn’t any special requirements to use Electro Photoshop text styles beside Adobe Photoshop installed. Best result styles will give you when using them with bold and black rounded sans serif fonts like Junegull, Rocko, Asap which are included in package with styles . Other fonts I can recommend you to use are display and slab serif fonts like : Rockwell Bold, ChunkFive, Cooper Bold, Cooper Black, Bevan.
How files are organized
After purchasing, downloading and unzipping package you will have Electro Photoshop Text Styles folder with 3 sub—folders: 1. Styles and PSD where are located styles in .asl format and layered PSD template. 2. Fonts where are located 4 free fonts you can use with styles. 3. Help where is located PDF User Guide which you are currently reading.
How to install styles
Basically you can keep styles anywhere on your hard drive or even external hard drive and load them at any time in Photoshop. Hoewer, there is a better way to install them so styles will be available for quick load from the list with installed styles. To install styles copy Electro Text Styles.asl and paste it in Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop X\Presets\Styles where X is the version number for your version of Photoshop. You will need to restart Photoshop if it was running while pasting styles in Presets\Styles folder. After pasting styles in previously mentioned folder you can quickly load them from Styles panel (Window > Styles). Click on Styles panel menu in the upper right corner and choose Electro Text Styles from drop-down list. Another way to load styles is to double click on Electro Text Styles.asl in folder where they are located or to use Styles panel menu in Photoshop and Load Styles option. After chosing Load Styles option navigate to folder with styles, click on Electro Text Styles.asl to select it then click Load button in the dialog with the same name.
After installing styles restart Photoshop, click on Styles panel menu then select Electro Text Styles
To load styles without to install them choose Load Styles option
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Using Electro Text Styles
It is extremely easy to use Photoshop styles. All you need to do is to select layer with text in Layers panel then to click on small style thumbnail preview in Styels panel. Hoewer there are some tips and instructions I want to give you for best possible results.
Fonts which works best with Electro styles
Basically you can apply Electro text styles to any font at any size but this set works best when using it with rounded sans serif, display and slab serif fonts with bold and black style. It is recommended to use Electro styles with type in range of 60—150pt size. Here is the list with fonts I can recommend you for good and best results: • Cooper Bold • Cooper Black • Gill Sans Ultra Bold • Folio XBd BT • Franklin Gothic Heavy • Hiruko Black (free) • Asap (free, included in package) • Rocko (free, included in package) • Junegull (free, included in package) Note: this is not complete list with fonts which works and works best with Electro styles but rather direction to get started. There are tons of fonts you can buy or download and use for free which may work better than any of fonts mentioned above in the list.
How to apply style
To apply any of Electro text styles first create type layer in Photoshop with some text, choose font and set attributes like style and size. It is recommended to apply text styles to the point type or in other words keep each line of text separately on separate layers. Select layer (s) with text then click on style thumbnail preview in Styles panel. To apply different style simple click on its thumbnail and previous will be replaced with clicked one.
To apply layer style first select type layers then click on layer style thumbnail in Styles panel.
To change applied style select layer (s) with style applied then click style thumbnail
Cycle through font list
There are one handy tip how to cycle through all installed fonts to find one which works best for you. With style already applied, select Type layer in Layers panel. Make Type Tool active then click inside text field with font name in Options bar to appear blinking cursor or to highlight it. Use up and down arrow keys to cycle through all installed fonts. If you know the name of the fonts you want to use then select font name then retype it from keyboard with the name of the desired font.
To cycle through installed fonts with instant preview, first select type layer. Make Type Tool active then click inside text field with font name. Use arrow keys to cycle through installed font list with instant preview on screen.
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Customizing styles Beside simply applying styles you can also customize them. There are already defined layer effects for each style like drop Shadow, Bevel and Emboss... and their settings like size, color, style... which you can customize in many ways.
Show/Hide style effect
You can exclude or hide any of layer effects like Drop Shadow from Layers panel. To hide any of effects included in layer style click on eyeball in front of effect name to close it. To reveal again effect click again in front of layer effect name so visible open eye will appear again.
To hide individual effect included in style click on eyeball in front of effect name to hide it.
To show again individual layer effect included in layer style click one more time in front of effect name to appear open eye.
Change settings for Layer Effect
Sometimes you will wont to change settings like Drop Shadow size or color. To change default defined settings for particular effect, double click on its name in Layers panel to open Layer Style dialog with tab and settings for that effect displayed.
To change settings defined for individula effect double click on effect name in Layers panel to open Layer Style dialog.
Scale Layer Effects
With scale layer effects I mean scale all effects included in Electro text style from once. To scale all effects from once right click on fx on the right side of Type layer or on Effects below layer thumbnail and choose Scale Effects... In Scale Layer Effects dialog which will appear type percentage in Scale text field or use slider which appears when you click on triangle on the right side of percentage number. Note: Whenever your document have resolution bigger than 72ppi Photoshop will automaticaly scale all effects to match document resolution. It is OK to scale all effects but in most cases you will need to scale only Pattern Overlay (if you are not satisfied with style appearance) what is next tip.
To scale all effects included in style from once, right click on fx on the right side of Type layer and choose Scale Effects...
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Scale Pattern Overlay
One of the key elements for all Electro text styles is Pattern Overlay which is always bitmap image. Bitmap images can be scaled easily but sometimes scaling will produce blurry result. Note: Whenever your document have resolution bigger than 72ppi Photoshop will automaticaly scale all effects to match document resolution. It is OK to scale all effects as explained in previous tip but in most cases you will need to scale only Pattern Overlay. Since entire collection of styles have appearance of gradient like transitions between thunder cracks, you wont loose much of appearance of styles when bitmap pattern is heavily scaled. Best appearance is to use Pattern Overlay at 100% or as it is. When scalling Pattern Overlay you can achieve different result of already defined what can be sometimes even better and more likely for you. To scale bitmap pattern used for style double click on Pattern Overlay at Layers panel. Layer Style dialog will open with Pattern Overlay tab dislayed. Below Pattern thumbnail preview drag the slider to the left or right to change scale percentage or type number manually in the text field on the right side of Scale: title.
To scale Pattern Overlay double click its name on the effects list below layer thumbnail to open Layer Style dialog.
When Layer style dialog opens with Pattern Overlay tab displayed drag slider below pattern thumbnail to change scaling percentage.
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