Now, to add our text and to add some additional elements, we are going to save this frame out as a layered Photoshop file and do some of our type setting and design in Photoshop. So, what I would like you to do is first of all click on the timeline to make sure it is the panel of interest, then come up to your composition menu and select save frame as Photoshop layers.
Let us go ahead and save out our file. Make sure you are in the project files folder and then Part 1, Lesson 4 and let us save this in our lessons in progress folder and you can see what it did here in the file name is it took the name of the composition which called lower thirds and then just adds the .pst extension, that is fine. So, go ahead and clicks save, and now we are done. So now it is time to launch Photoshop CS2. So come over to your start menu to programs or wherever it is you happen to launch Photoshop CS2 from and go ahead and launch it.
So, in Photoshop, let us come to our file menu and select browse and of course as we already know, that launches Adobe Bridge. So come to your project files folder and let us double click on Part 1, Lesson 4 and then of course lessons in progress where we just saved our file and then go ahead and double click on your lowerthird.pst file. And there we have it inside of adobe Photoshop CS2.
So, while we are designing here, I think it is going to be helpful to have a black background. We are going to get rid of it when we are finished. So, let us come over here to our layers pallet and let us create a new layer. So come down to the bottom, to the new layer button, go ahead and click it and let us go ahead and now take this new layer called layer one and let us click and drag it to the bottom of the layer stack. And there it is.
Now, to fill this with block, let us come all the way to the left to our toolbar, right here to our foreground and background colors and just go ahead and click down here to the lower left. This will set the foreground and background colors to their default settings of black and white, go ahead and click it. And now, come up here to your paint bucket tool, it might be hidden behind the gradient tools. So, if you see a gradient tool right here, just go ahead, click and hold your mouse until the paint bucket tool appears. Go ahead and select that.
And now, with the paint bucket selected, just click anywhere inside the image in any empty area and that fills it with black. Again, we will get rid of that later on. We just want to have this here so we can see what we are designing over a black background.
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