Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
NOTE
You may have noticed that the Smart Brush tool (
Correcting Part of an Image
)
includes
Rainbow Map as one of the adjustments you can brush onto an image. Sounds like it
might be just the ticket for avoiding all this layer-creation business, doesn't it? Unfortu-
nately, it applies a gradient
map
(see
Saving Gradients
)
to an image, not a regular gradi-
ent. Because text is all the same tonal level, if you brush the Smart Brush's Rainbow Map
onto some text, you'll just get a solid, one-color result, not a rainbow or a gradient at all.
If you just want a single color that fades away, there are a couple of monochromatic
gradients in the Graphics panel's text effects category, so you might want to check those
out before trying the steps above.
Liquifying Text
Elements' Create Warped Text button (explained on
Warping Text
) gives you lots of ways to
reshape text. But there's an even more powerful way to warp text: the Liquify filter (see
Fig-
ure 14-9
).
