Chris Morrell

One of my major forms of procrastination is looking at Photoshop tutorials, and I often find myself saying “if I were doing this, I’d…” The most frustrating of these times is when people use bitmap techniques when vectors (Photoshop “shapes”) would be more appropriate, or when they create 4-5 layers when a few layer styles would do. These problems particularly apply when the tutorial is focused on Web design or UI effects such as glossy interfaces or navigation items.

Well, this weekend I was browsing through some “top X tutorials” pages and came across a tutorial that had a great result, but went around it in, what I think is a really odd way. The tutorial in question is the Cheetos text tutorial on Mick Moolhuijsen’s blog. I’ve been meaning to do a tutorial on Photoshop’s layer styles, and this seemed like a good place to start. So without further ado…

Cheetos Text Redux

Here’s a preview of the final image:

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