 Hello everybody, welcome back to another Photoshop 2023 tutorial. This one, I'm going to show you how to do the text stretch effect. If you look at this here, you'll see that the top half of the letters here are not stretched. Only the bottom half is stretched. So this is a unique technique. Let me show you how to do it in about 40 seconds. Let's just delete this. Start from scratch. Okay. Good. I'm just going to type in the word stretch. All right. Here we go. And I'll just center it a little bit here. And press dog. Move it up top here. Now, in order to do this, the first thing you want to do is click outside here right around here, right click, and then convert this to a shape. Once you do that, you're going to see all of these little rectangles or squares. And basically, we've just got a shape now. Now the next step is you want to click outside of it, and then you want to go over to the left side here to your toolbar and take the direct selection tool. Once you do that, you can now select specific parts. I'm going to click on this layer, and now I'm going to select the direct selection tool. Now watch what I do. I'm just going to drag it across the bottom parts of the letters. And when I do that, you're going to see that these little rectangles or points are dark blue. The top ones are white. And if I just hold down shift, for example, and I'll just grab one point and I just pull down, we've got the stretch effect. That's all there's to it.