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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS TIPS AND TRICKS 19

Lightblast!

Tutorial

Lightblast!

Richard Harrington Excerpted from “Photoshop for Nonlinear Editors”, ISBN 1-57820-209-4, Copyright © 2003, CMP Media LLC. All rights

reserved. Richard Harrington is an experienced Editor and Motion Graphic artist and the owner of RHED Pixel (www.RHEDPixel.com) a visual communi￾cations company. Harrington has several industry certifications including: Apple Certified Trainer, Avid Certified Instructor, and holds two Adobe Certified

Expert certificates.

Looking for a way to give some extra “life” to a logo or type treatment? The two most common techniques to help a

logo standout are a glowing edge or a drop shadow. This is based on the principle of type on pattern, which says that

a contrasting edge makes it far easier to see something when it is positioned over a busy or moving background. But

why be ordinary? By backlighting an image, we can dramatically offset it from its background. This technique works

with almost any logo or type treatment.

1. Position the logo.

Position the logo where you want it on screen. Be sure to use a safe title area document if you are working in video.

Use alignment tools to center the logo if needed.

Note: You can open a new document with title safe and action safe guides showing. Choose File > New, and then choose

a preset video document that matches the standard used by your video editing system.