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How do you do this in Photoshop? I am using Photoshop cc and Illustrator and I am in the process of learning. Can anyone teach me how to do that text effect shown in the picture? thanks!

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    For something like this we ask you show that you've made some attempt to try on your own and got stuck at some point along the way.
    – Ryan
    Mar 13, 2014 at 14:23
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    This is called misregistration, I would suggest using that as a search term
    – JohnB
    Mar 13, 2014 at 14:31
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    Take your type layer, duplicate it 3 times, change the hue of each with a colorize tool. (nitpicky trivia: this would likely never happen in real life as you wouldn't use cyan, magenta and yellow overprinting to create Black. You'd just use black ink.)
    – DA01
    Mar 13, 2014 at 15:15
  • Tricks like this are based on overlapping shapes with blend modes Mar 13, 2014 at 15:46
  • Copy Paste Copy Paste Copy Paste Layer Colour Layer Colour Layer Colour ... oh and don't forget the transparency!
    – Paul
    May 3, 2016 at 8:26

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You can do this in Illustrator by simply stacking fills and adjusting them via the Appearance Panel.

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The Transform effect for each fill, simply moves the fill vertically so they are off-center.

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  • great answer... but no black in OP... it was generated from the overlap as shown in @George Profenza's post below.
    – Phlume
    Mar 13, 2014 at 18:58
  • Answer was more about theory than actual creation. But, okay, you're right. Image updated.
    – Scott
    Mar 13, 2014 at 19:19
  • and now the +1 :-)
    – Phlume
    Mar 14, 2014 at 12:53
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That's an example of the subtractive color synthesis. In illustrator you can do that by using a subtractive blend mode like multiply in the transparency panel: subtractive colours illustrator

To prove the concept I'm using 3 text elements filled with cyan, magenta and yellow. When all the layers overlap, they subtract from each other resulting in black

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