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(Create quality business cards and letterhead in full color!)

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Creating unique text effects

Tutorial by Marc Sylvester
www.thelogocreator.com

With the Duplicate function (under the MODIFY menu, you'll find 'duplicate logo element') you can create some very interesting text effects.

My favorite effect (you'll see this on quite a few of the logos I've created in the various logo sets being sold at The Logo Creator) is the "duplicate text with outline" effect.

The Logo Creator's outline feature creates an outline INside of the text. To make the outline appear as an OUTER outline, follow the steps below:

Create your text and add an outline.
Various thickness create different effects.

Duplicate the text (under the MODIFY menu)

Remove the outline from the duped (upper) text.
Simply click the OUTLINE button and toggle the outline off.

Center the two text elements over each other and you have nice white inner text with a subtle outer - outline.

This duplicating effect works great for other effects (all of the images below were exported directly from The Logo Creator):

	By duplicating your initial text and creating each outline with a different thickness and color, you can create the 'double outline' effect.
	Here, I created two text levels with various gradients (play with a few variants!) The upper level is a tad transparent. This makes it look more metallic.
	This effect was created with duplicate text. The bottom layer contains a 'white to blue' gradient with a black shadow. the upper is a 'blue to white gradient with a white shadow (the white shadow in this case helps to 'fade' the text underneath a bit). I then moved the upper level down a few pixels for that 3D effect.

There are many other 'instant' text effects available in The Art Center (as seen below)

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