How to Create Hanging Typography in Photoshop and Illustrator

 
In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to create this cool hanging typography text using Photoshop and a little bit of Adobe Illustrator.

 

Preview of Final Results

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Hanging Typography Photoshop Tutorial

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Tutorial Resources

• Cloud Brush – Brusheezy
• Coolvetica Font – DaFont
• Paint Brushes – Brusheezy
• Cement Texture – WebTurd
• Single Swirlies Brush – Brusheezy

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Step 1

Start out in Photoshop, Create a New Document (the size of my document is 8.5 x 11 inches but in your case you can do it whatever size you see fit.) The font I’m using is Coolvetica, now with the text tool selected arrange your letters on the canvas any way you like. Also it doesn’t matter what color the text is at this point, we will change it later.

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Step 2

Now save your project File>Save As and I saved mine as “Typography” (psd file). Next start up Illustrator and open up the psd file you just saved. Make sure the “Convert layers to objects” button is selected. Click ‘ok’

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Step 3

Select your letters and change the color of them to #EF2E7D

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Step 4

Select all of your letters and apply the 3D effect (Effect > 3D > Extrude & Bevel).

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Step 5

This is how it should look so far.

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Step 6

Now we will transport them over to Photoshop by using the ‘drag and drop’ feature. Align Photoshop and illustrator side by side and drag over your text letter by letter from Illustrator to Photoshop. Now I have made the other letters invisible except ‘T’. Select your Magic Wand Tool and select the shadowed area of your letter.

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Step 7

Now copy it (ctrl+C or Cmd+C) and paste it in a new layer. And apply these settings. Double click this layer so that it brings up the layer style panel and start off with Bevel and Emboss.

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Step 8

This is how it should look

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Step 9

On the original ‘T’ layer add a Drop Shadow

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Step 10

Create a New layer and with the Elliptical Marquee tool make a circle over the letter and fill it with any color.

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Step 11

Select the ‘T’ layer by clicking on the image next to the layer while pressing Ctrl and Select>Inverse and delete the cirle you just made.

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Step 12

Apply these settings

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Step 13

Now it’s a good idea to place all of the layers pertaining to this letter in folder so that you can keep everything organized. Repeat these same steps for the rest of the letters.

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Step 14

Go to your background layer and apply this Gradient Overlay

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Step 15

Open your texture in photoshop and place it above your background layer and change the layer to soft light.

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Step 16

Create a new layer and grab your paint brush tool and use the cloud brush and put them under your font.

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Step 17

Create a New layer and use the paintbrush brushes and place them on your canvas like so. The colors I used are: #0578a5, #5ed950, #f2eb17, #0ef2ea, #640ef2, #f20eef, #f20e24, #f28a10, #f2ea0e

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Step 18

Now Filter>Blur>Motion Blur

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Step 19

Change this layer to Overlay

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Step 20

Now we will add the strings, make a new layer and grab your pen tool (make sure that your paint brush tool is set to 3px Hard round brush) make a line from the top of your letter to the top of your document. Right click the line and select Stroke path

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Step 21

Make another one and apply a Drop shadow to both. Note: I used 3px and 2px lines when making the strings

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Step 22

Make strings for the rest of the letters

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Step 23

Grab your paint brush tool again and place the “Brushilicious” brushes on some of the letters.

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Step 24

Add this layer style to them. Make sure that the layer fill is set to 0%

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Final Results

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Download the PSD

Hanging Typography.zip | 3.59 MB

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