preview slide for ~lex-n-karu's Avengers fanfics.

concept:
comic-book-like titling with classic white-to-yellow fade on some kind of rwb background.

technical details:
bg:
bottomed with flat black. i toyed with overlaying the fractals on a dark red, but it turned out to look nicer screening them onto the black. the fractals are just three pretty brushes (on separate layers so that i could move them around independently) from Dragonfire3k3 Set 12 by ~Dragonfire3k3. set to varying Screen opacities to balance the colors nicely. so far, i like the asymmetrical balance of it, but i may decide to go back and make the blue layer with a flipped version of the red brush.
title:
the text here is modded mostly in the form of drop caps and meticulous width/density adjustments. it starts as 72pt SF Theramin Gothic Condensed set to Oblique with a faux-bold and small-caps applied and width changed to 75%. vertical spacing is set to 60pt. caps are dropped by (i think) 7.62pts. the Ss are all set to something like 60% width. all density was adjusted in piecemeal fashion where required. the gradient overlay was done with a layer mask so that i had more control over positioning. then i hit the text layer with a 100% Multiply crimson (brightens the shadow so that the bg layers don't get washed out) drop shadow 5px distant and spread to 8% of 7px.