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This lesson demonstrates how to perspectively warp type. You will find the start image Here. Unzip the file, and open the image onto Photoshop’s workspace, ready to work with.
Angel of the North!
Undo and Navigation Steps
Two ways of undoing steps are from the top menu, Edit then Step Backwards. Alternatively, click a previous snapshot in the History Palette.
Navigate (zoom in and pan) your image using the Navigator Palette,
or the Zoom Tool. 
Activate The Hand Tool by tapping the Spacebar, keeping the Spacebar pressed, pan your image in the usual way. 
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Open your image onto Photoshop’s workspace.
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Then from the toolbar, activate the Horizontal Type Tool. Lesson.
And apply your choice of type.
Activate the Move Tool, and reposition your type.
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From the top menu, choose Layer then choose Rasterise then choose Type.
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From the top menu, choose Edit then choose Free Transform. Now, hover your curser to the right of bounding box, and when you see the following curved arrow, rotate the type, as shown below.
Then place your cursor inside the vector bounding box and left-click, and drag it towards the angel’s wings.
Grab the outer deformation handles (squares) and drag them outwards to enlarge the type. Then grab the handles again, and reshape the type, so it fits inside the angel’s wings.
Then click the Commit transform tick. Or press Return!
Note
Because of the perspective, (at this point) your type will not be perfectly positioned.
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Grab the top-right corner of the photograph, and drag it outwards, to extend the outer grey canvas. Then from the top menu, choose Image then choose Transform then choose Perspective. A vector deformation box will again surround the type, this time, you are looking to perspectively warp the right-side type. Therefore, grab the top-right deformation handle, and manoeuvre it to drag out the deformation box, as shown below. This can take a little practise to perfect, you are looking to enlarge the extreme right-side of the text.
Click the Commit tick, (or press Enter/Return), and reposition the type over the wings using the Move Tool.
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Then from the top menu, choose Image then choose Transform then choose Perspective. This time, grab the bottom-left vector handle, and perspectively warp the left-side of the type, to make it is smaller. Again, this takes a little practise to perfect.
Click the Commit tick, and reposition the type inside the wings, using the Move Tool.
Now, working between the Free Transform, Perspective Transform, and Move Tool, stretch and warp the type so it fits inside angel’s wings, and the perspective looks convincing.
Tip
You can move the deformation box in tiny increments by clicking either, the left, up, down or right arrows, of the keyboard.
When your type is complete you are ready for the next step.
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From the Layers palette, click the following Add a layer style (f-fx) icon.
And from the drop-down list, click Colour Overlay. In the subsequent Layer Style dialogue box, click a colour for your type. Alternatively, choose a Gradient, or Pattern Overlay. I chose the following Gradient Overlay - Screen Capture. Experiment with different Layer Styles, until you like the look of your type, perhaps applying a Drop Shadow, or a Stroke.
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Activate the Background (angel) layer, then from the top menu, choose Filter then choose Render then choose Lighting Effects.
I chose the following default settings, Screen Capture, however, experiment with different lighting effects, and find a look you like.
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When you are happy with the result, from the top menu, choose Layer then choose Flatten Image, then save your work.
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