This tutorial is an installment of The Russell Brown Show.
Russell Brown, senior creative director at Adobe, demonstrates how to use Photoshop CS3 to convert a text layer to a Smart Object, then apply Smart Filters. You’ll create amazing special effects that are nondestructive, which means you can edit the text at any time!
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This article was last modified on January 8, 2023
This article was first published on August 25, 2008
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