Hands-on Tutorial

Beginner

4 min

Apply stunning effects to your lettering

In the second tutorial for this series, you'll apply color and a cool drop shadow effect to make your lettering stand out in postcards and flyers.

Start with core concepts

This video introduces creative ways to enhance your text using colorful fills and strokes and demonstrates effects by applying a drop shadow.

What you'll learn

Punch up text with color

Spice up your lettering with colors you add to the fill and stroke of your text. 

Refine lettering strokes for depth

Add depth to your lettering by editing stroke options like weight, alignment, and corner.

Add a drop shadow effect 

Apply and edit effects to add a dimensional drop shadow to your lettering.


Instructor

Brian Wood

Designer

Wendy Strauss

Adobe Stock Contributors:

faisal

wattana

Ton Photographer4289

NA Creative

Behance Contributors

Alex Mavigok

Anne Seitz

Ruth Vissing

Sadvini S L

January 25, 2023

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