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1. Type your text using the color you prefer. The font used in this tutorial is called DomCasual BT... some other fonts that may work well include (but are not limited to) Arial Rounded MT Bold, Challenge Extra Bold, Comic Sans MS, and GoodDogPlain. Choose Layer-> Rasterize-> Type, then CTRL+Click on the layer to get a selection around the text.
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2. Now, make a new layer above the the one with your text. Go to Select-> Modify-> Contract and choose a setting of about 5 (this may vary depending on the size and "fatness" of the font you are using). Choose a lighter shade of your text's color and press ALT+Delete to fill the selection. Press CTRL+D to deselect.
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3. Next, go to Filter-> Blur-> Gaussian Blur and choose a setting of about 2.0 (again, this will vary depending on the size/fatness of your font).
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4. Now that we have the basics out of the way, it's time to add some nifty Layer Styles to pull everything together. Select the original text layer and choose Layer-> Layer Style-> Bevel and Emboss. In the Bevel and Emboss menu, use the following settings, or if you prefer, click on the thumbnail image below to see a screenshot of the menu settings:
Style: Inner Bevel
Technique: Smooth
Depth: 61%
Direction: Up
Size: 8
Smooth: 0
Use Global: unchecked
Altitude: 30
Gloss Contour: Rolling Slope
Highlight: Screen with 100%
Shadow: Multiply with 100%
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5. Once you have those settings entered, simply select the Drop Shadow and Inner Shadow layer style options, leaving them with default settings (or of course you can play with the settings to achieve the effect you are looking for).
You now have some very cool looking "Gel Text" =)
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1. Create a new image with a size of around 1000x1000px, with a white background. It's wise to start out with a nice big work area to get the best results - we will reduce the size later. If you plan to apply this effect to a full word, you should increase the width of the image as necessary. Firstly, use the Color Picker to choose the color for your text (the example uses R:0 G:132 B:255, though you can choose another color if you prefer). Select the Type Tool, and type your text as big as you can so it fills as much of the canvas as possible.
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2. Now create a new Layer (Layer 1). Hold CTRL and click on the type layer you created in step 1 to create a selection of your text. With "Layer 1" selected on the layers palette, go to Edit-> Fill and in the pop up use the settings shown in the image below.
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3. Do not lose the selection of the text. Switch to the channels palette, create a new channel and fill the selection with white. Go to Filter-> Blur-> Gaussian Blur and enter 14. Then again, Filter-> Blur-> Gaussian Blur and enter 7. And again Filter-> Blur-> Gaussian Blur and enter 4. Last time Filter-> Blur-> Gaussian Blur and enter 2. Deselect (CTRL+D) and go back to the layers palette.
Now, hold CTRL and click on "Layer 1" and then go to Filter-> Render-> Lighting Effects.
Match These Settings
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4. Your text should now look similar to the example below. Now you need to blur this layer to get rid of the jaggies, so go to Filter-> Blur-> Gaussion Blur and enter 2 for radius.
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5. The next step is to make a curves adjustment. Go to Image-> Adjust-> Curves. Match the settings as close you can to the picture below. The closer you get the more realistic the effect will be.
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6. You should see the plastic effect coming along now, though some color adjustment is still needed. Go to Image-> Adjust-> Hue/Saturation. Match the settings to the example image below, and don't forget to check the "Colorize" box in the bottom right corner.
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7. Now for a few more color adjustments. Bring up the Color Balance tool by pressing CTRL+B, and make sure "Preserve Luminosity" is checked. Enter the following settings:
Shadows: 0,0,-100
Midtones: 0,0, +93
Highlights: 0,0,-15
Click OK when finished, and it should look something like the sample below.
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8. All that remains is to add a drop shadow (Layer-> Effects-> Drop Shadow) and resize the image to the size you intend to use it at, (Image-> Image Size). Of course you may want to keep a relatively large extra copy before you resize, so you can always go back and use a bigger version of your image if you decide to.
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1. Type your text, making sure it remains on it's own separate layer.
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2. Hold CTRL on your keyboard and click on the text layer, and it will load a selection around your text. Choose Select-> Modify-> Expand and set it to about 2 pixels (you can try different settings to get various effects). Click the Background layer and then click the New Layer icon to make a new layer under your text layer (see sample of layer palette below). Select the color you wish to use for the inner part of the outline and press ALT+Delete to fill the selection with your foreground color.
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3. Now, click the Background layer again, and then click the New Layer icon to make another layer under the layer you just made. Choose Select-> Modify-> Expand and set it to about 1 pixel (again, you can try other settings). Choose another color to be the external part of the outline and fill your selection with that color. Press CTRL+D to deselect.
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4. If you'd like, you can continue by adding glow or shadow below the text, or any other effect that may be appropriate.
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1. Create a new RGB image to work with. The example is 325x125, Resolution 72, and has a black background.
2. Choose a Bright Green color as your foreground and Black for your background color.
3. Choose Edit -> Fill -> Background Color to fill the background layer with black.
4. Select the Type Tool and choose the the Type Mask Tool from the Options bar at the top of your screen (in earlier versions, drag to the right on the Type Tool icon). Next click inside the document and type any text you want (choose any font or size you like). Click the Check mark in the Options bar to finalize the text layer (OK in older versions).
5. Choose Edit-> Fill-> Forground Color (the green).
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6. Go to Select-> Feather 2 pixels
7. Choose Filter-> Blur-> Radial Blur (100, Zoom, Best)
8. Without deselecting, repeat step # 7. (Press CTRL+F)
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9. Now, Select-> Inverse and repeat step # 7 again... Filter-> Blur-> Radial Blur (100, Zoom, Best)
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1. Start by creating a new blank image or open the image you wish to add the burnt-in text to. If you'd like to just do a simple version of the technique without an image to apply it to, just fill the background layer with whatever solid color you like (preferably not an extremely dark color though).
2. Select the Type Tool and choose the the Type Mask Tool from the Options bar at the top of your screen (or click and hold on the Type icon and drag to the right). Next click inside the image and type your text. Click the check mark in the Options bar to finalize the text layer (or click OK if you're using an older version of Photoshop).
You should now see a selection of your text. Move it to the location on the image where you want it to be burned into the surface.
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3. Click on the New Layer icon on the Layers Palette to add a new layer, and make sure that the new layer is the currently selected layer. Choose the color you want to use for the burnt-in text (the example uses black). Choose Edit-> Fill to fill the selection with your foreground color (ALT+Delete).
Without deselecting the text, click on the layer that contains your main image (i.e. the background layer). Using the keyboard's arrow keys, move the text's selection one (1) pixel down and one (1) pixel to the right.
4. Choose Image-> Adjustments-> Brightness/Contrast, and move the Brightness Slider to about 75% (you may want to choose a higher or lower setting depending on how dark the surface of the image you're burning into is). Click OK.
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5. Again, using the arrow keys, move the selection two (2) pixels up and two (2) pixels to the left.
Choose Image-> Adjustments-> Brightness/Contrast, and move the Brightness Slider to -75% (negative 75). Again, you may want to choose a higher or lower setting depending on the situation. Click OK.
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6. Press CTRL+D to deselect and see your finished work.
Tip: For different types of "edges" on your burnt-in text, try playing with feathering the selection or moving it a greater number of pixels. You can make it appear to be set deeper into the surface.
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1. Create a blank image and fill the background with black. Press X on the keyboard (to flip colors) and then select the Type Tool -- type whatever you want, press OK.
There is an extra step to do if you are using version 5 of Adobe Photoshop (users of earlier versions don't need to worry about this step). The problem is due to Photoshop 5's new "Dynamic Text Layers" inability to be directly edited on. So, all you have to do is CTRL+Click on the text layer after making it to get the text's selection (you may delete the dynamic text layer afterward), and fill the selection on a new layer with white.
To center the text on your image, press CTRL+A-> CTRL+X-> CTRL+V and then press CTRL+E to merge the text layer into the background layer.
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2. Next, use Filter-> Stylize-> Wind with the settings "Wind" and "from the left". Press CTRL+F to apply the same filter over again a second time. Now use another Filter-> Stylize-> Wind, but this time with the settings "Wind" and "from the right". Press CTRL+F to re-apply, just like before.
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3. The next step is to repeat the same process we applied to the sides, but this time to the top and bottom. Since there isn't a "top or bottom" option in the wind dialog box, we will turn the image itself around. Use Image-> Rotate Canvas-> 90 CCW. Apply the wind just like before, two on the left and two on the right. When you have completed this task, use Image-> Rotate Canvas>90 CW in order to straighten your work up.
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4. Apply Filter-> Blur-> Gaussian Blur with a value of 2, then Filter-> Distort-> Ripple with the default values.
5. Convert the image to Grayscale by using Image-> Mode-> Grayscale and then to Image-> Mode-> Indexed Color. The next step is to give our image some color, so choose Image-> Mode-> Color Table. Since we're shooting for a "fire effect" choose the Black Body table.
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6. Last Step: make our text a bit more legible. Choose the Text Tool & press D on your keyboard. Use/type the same words you used earlier (use the same font size and type) click OK, position the text in the middle and say "Wow!".
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1. Create a new document and choose a color from the Color Palette to fill the background with. You can also fill it with a seamless texture if you want, for added detail.
2. Select the Marquee Selection Tool from the toolbar and draw a selection across the top half of the graphic. Now, create a new layer and then select the Gradient Tool to fill the selection with a gradient with a medium grey on top and white on the bottom (see example).
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3. Go to Select-> Inverse to select the other half of the graphic which doesn't have the gradient yet. Fill the selection with a gradient from black on top to a medium grey on the bottom. Now choose Select-> All then press Ctrl+X to remove the new gradient texture for use later (don't cut or copy anything though until then, or you'll lose it).
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4. Now it's time to make the selection for the shape or text that will have the chrome in it. For text, select the Type Tool and choose the the Type Mask Tool from the Options bar at the top of your screen (in earlier versions, drag to the right on the Type Tool icon). Type whatever text you want (you'll want to make the font size reasonably large to get a clearer final effect), and then click the checkbox or OK. For other shapes, just draw them with the selection tools while holding SHIFT or ALT to get more complex selections.
5. Now, fill the text or selection with a gradient from white on top to black on the bottom.
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6. Next, click Select-> Modify-> Contract-> choose a value of 2 Pixels. Press Ctrl+Shift+V to paste the gradient texture that we made a bit earlier into the selection. Hold down the Ctrl Key on your keyboard and use the arrow keys if you want to adjust the position of the texture beneath the selection. When you're done positioning, press Ctrl+E to merge down the layer.
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7. Your text probably looks pretty cool by now... but there's one more step to finish it off. Load the Assorted Brushes (.abr file) from your brushes box and select the brush that looks like an X. Use your Airbrush Tool at a low pressure to add small highlights to a few of the edges of your text or shape. All done!
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Here is an example of the results of this tutorial with a shape:
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1. Open the image you want to use, or create a new document. If you're starting a new image, let's give it some color by making a diagonal gradient with the Gradient Tool (see example). Using the Lasso Tool, create a semi-round selection with jagged edges: to make it more realistic, drag the lasso tool slowly while moving your hand up & down, left & right.
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2. Switch to Quick Mask Mode and use Filter-> Pixelate-> Crystalize with setting of 3.
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3. Switch back to Standard Mode and save the selection (Select-> Save Selection). After pressing OK, fill the selection with white (Edit-> Fill) or whatever other color your heart desires. Then choose Select-> Modify-> Expand. You can enter 4 or 5 (depending how big edge you want). Now, switch to Quick Mask Mode again and choose Filter-> Blur-> Gaussian Blur with setting of 3.
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4. Now, go back to Standard Mode and choose Select-> Load Selection and make sure your saved selection (should be called Alpha 1 or #4) is selected in the Channel dropdown. Check Subtract from Selection and press OK.
5. Time for some color! Choose, Image-> Adjust-> Hue/Saturation and click the Colorize check box. Set the Hue to 14, Saturation to 31 and Lightness to -61 (or adjust to your preference). Tah Dah!
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1. Start with a new image with a white background, and to be on the safe side make it about 800x800 px. The tentacles in this tutorial's example will be plastic-looking, but you can create any type you want... chrome, shiny, various colors... whatever you can come up with. Start by selecting the Polygon Lasso tool from the toolbar and, as neatly as you can, draw a triangle pointing down. You will probably need to zoom out (shrink the image view) while doing this.
Once you have your triangle, fill the selection in with your color of choice - the example uses #8FCFFF. Deselect (CTRL+D).
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2. Next go to Filter-> Distort-> Shear. What you need to do here is click along the line and drag parts to make it "squiggle" like in the example below. Keep an eye on the preview window and once you're happy with the results, click OK. Thanks to Allgood of Geda-online for sharing this nifty technique.
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3. Now use Free Transform (CTRL+T) to rotate or resize your tentacle to taste, and press enter to apply it. No doubt you're quite impressed with your, eh... squiggly... but it still looks rather flat and dull at this point (sorry to burst your bubble). It's time to grab the Airbrush (first select the Paintbrush tool, and choose the Airbrush icon in the Options bar). Select the tentacle shape (hold CTRL and click on the layer), then create a new layer above the tentacle one. Set the Airbrush to a size of around 200-300px with 100% opacity, and paint around the edges of the tentacle to give it a rounded beveled effect. You may want to mess with the layer's opacity to get this to look how you like it. Refer to the sample below if you need to.
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4. Now it's just a case of using the airbrush to paint highlights and shadows. Hold CTRL and click on the tentacle layer to select it, and make a new layer (you will want to do each of the following parts on their own separate layer). Next, choose an aqua color from your color palette, and begin adding highlights to the tentacle.
As you complete each layer of highlights, you should blur the parts you've airbrushed a bit using Filter-> Blur-> Gaussian Blur (that's why you must do each part on a new layer). In the example below, an aqua highlight and a white highlight have been added.
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5. Now we're going to darken up the edges a bit. Hold CTRL and click on the original tentacle shape layer (Layer 1). Set a darker blue shade as your foreground color and go to Edit-> Stroke - use a setting of about 2 or whatever you feel looks best.
You can now add a faint drop shadow (in the example, the drop shadow is a faint dark blue shade... if your tentacle is a different color, you will probably want to use a darker shade of whatever color you used).
If one tentacle is cool, wouldn't lotsa tentacles be even better? If you think you might want to go back and change things later, you should first make a set of copies of your tentacle's layers (drag each one to the New Layer icon... if you like to stay organized, you might want to move these copies into a Layer Set to group them together... Layer-> New-> Layer Set). Now, merge the layers of your tentacle together into one single layer and make several copies of that layer. Once you have your duplicate copies, begin to rotate and transform each of them in unique ways (see Edit-> Transform). You may even want to do the "Shear" filter on some of them again to reshape them (see Step 2). Remember to keep the flat non-pointy side of the tentacles positioned "outside" of the visible work area of your image or underneath part of another tentacle, or things will look rather strange. You also don't have to always have the point of the tentacle showing on all the copies (notice the one below that only has its middle section visible).
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6. Here's another example of what you might come up with using this technique. Remember you don't have to stick with making the tentacles look like translucent plastic... you could make them solid, shiny, metallic, rough, etc. Have fun.
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1. Start with a new file, 300x500 pixels and a white background. The first stage of this tutorial will involve creating the stone texture. Make a new layer, choose Edit-> Fill and fill the layer with 50% Gray (located in the Use dropdown). Go to Filter-> Noise-> Add Noise, and for settings enter 18%, Gaussian, and Monochromatic. Run Filter-> Render-> Lighting Effects and set the Texture Channel as in the example below (you can use any of the RGB channels for this, it doesn't have to be blue). The rest of the settings don't matter much - this is just to create a "natural" base which we are going to destroy in the next step! Click OK.
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2. Next go to Filter-> Brush Strokes-> Spatter and press OK (use default settings: Radius 10, Smoothness 5). Make a new layer and fill it with 50% Gray again. Reset your colors by pressing D, then run Filter-> Render-> Clouds. Now apply Image-> Adjustments-> Auto Levels to the clouds. Change this layer's mode from Normal to Multiply, set the opacity to 75%, and merge it with the stone layer below (control E). This will have created a kind of random variation over the surface. Because there are a lot of random factors introduced with running some of the "gallery effects" filters you may want to run them again a few times or tweak them to suit you.
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3. Now apply Levels (CTRL+L), and enter the settings indicated in the example below - the main adjustment here is in the midtones. Adjust the Hue/saturation (CTRL+U) using the colorize checkbox and use these settings: hue 70, saturation 10, and brightness 0. You should be left with something similar to the example below.
After that, go to Layer-> Layer Style-> Bevel and Emboss. For the settings, choose Inner Bevel, Smooth, Depth 421%, Size 27, Soften 12. Use Color Dodge (opacity 63) as the highlight mode and Color Burn (opacity 44, or higher if you like) for the shadow. If you're using version 5 you can still create a similar effect.
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4. Now we're going to carve our stone into some kind of shape. Take your chisel... er, actually you don't need a chisel. What you do need is a layer mask. To add one to the "stone layer" choose Layer-> Add Layer Mask-> Hide All (or hold ALT and click on the Add Layer Mask icon in the Layers palette). This will completely mask the layer, but don't worry - your stone texture is only hidden, not deleted.
Choose the Paintbrush tool with a hard edged brush at 100% opacity, and draw white onto the layer mask. Make sure the MASK is highlighted in the Layers palette while you do this (the little box on the right side of the layer in the Layers palette). You can create any shape you want in this way! Switch from white to black using the X key to paint your shape and easily correct/refine any of your brushstrokes. This is the power of layer masks - your shape will always be editable.
Go to Layer-> Layer Style-> Drop Shadow to give the stone layer a drop shadow... opacity 50, distance 13, spread 0, size 13 and noise 10%.
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5. Next create a new layer underneath the stone layer, which will provide a solid black base. Load the stone shape as a selection (by control clicking the layer mask on the layer in the Layers palette) and fill the selection on the new layer with black.
Now go back to the stone layer. Paint into the layer mask again, this time with black using a soft edged 10% opacity brush. This will make some soft indentations in the stone and should help make the bevel look less artificial.
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6. For the last step you will be creating some ridges - these can be used for interface buttons or whatever you want.
Create a new layer on the top and use the Line Tool to make some black lines going across the surface (set the weight to 2 pixels). Now add another Layer-> Layer Style-> Bevel and Emboss (Outer Bevel, Smooth, Depth 100, Direction: Down, Size 5, Soften 0). Use Color Dodge again for the highlights and Multiply for the shadows. You might want to adjust the direction of the light slightly here - just uncheck the "Use Global Light" box and fiddle with the direction pointer.
Now go to the layers palette and ALT/Option click the narrow line between the stone layer and the line layer. This creates a Clipping Group which will restrict your bevelled lines to the contours of your stone shape. You can add some text at this point if you'd like. Remember to try tweaking various settings throughout the stages of this tutorial to get other interesting effects.
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1. Begin by creating a new document -- the example is 128x128. Choose a Light Blue for the forground color and a Dark Blue for the background color.
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2. Now, go to Filter-> Render-> Clouds. Press CTRL+F several times until you get the clouds the way you like them.
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3. Next, we will make the "Neon Lights". Go to Filter-> Artistic-> Paint Daubs, and fill in the following values: Brush size=40, Sharpness=36, Brush Type=Sparkle. That's it! You now have your neon texture -- to make it seamless, go to Filter-> Other-> Offset, set it to Wrap Around and half the dimensions of your image. Use the Smudge Tool to blend the edges where you can see a seam.
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ow we shall try and improvise the " X-files" effect using a standard set of filters, turned on and available in Adobe Photoshop. So, let's begin. Let's create a new window with a black background. And let's write the following text.
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Now select text Select>Load Selection... and copy it to the clipboard. Now it's possible to merge layers Layer>Merge Down.
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Now let's work it over a bit Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation... In the opening window we shall scroll upwards, choosing the needed color, previously marked with a check in the field "Colorize".
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OK. Remember we copied our text to the clipboard? Now we need it . Paste it from clipboard Edit>Paste. Now Select>Load selection and Select>Modify>Contract. Set 1 pixel. Now fill the selected area with black. Press D and then Editing>Fill... Use foreground color option . It should be something like the result in the picture below.
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Without removing the selection we shall blur the image at the value of 1 pixel. Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur... Deselect Select>Deselect. Now everything is ready. Sure it isn't very realistic, but then again we've omitted additional filters.:-)
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|1. Make a new image (File > New or Ctrl+N) with 400px in width and 150px in height: |
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|2. Fill in the background color as #0043B4. |
|3. Create a new layer (Layer > New > Layer or Shift+Ctrl+N). |
|3. Click on your Pen Tool and apply the settings below: |
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|4. With the Pen Tool, click somewhere below your image: |
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|5. Now click somewhere near the middle of your image and drag: |
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|6. Click somewhere a little above your image: |
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|7. Set your foreground color to #0057E9, then click on the Brush Tool and set the size to 12px: |
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|8. Click back on your Pen Tool, right click on your image and choose Stroke Path, then set the Tool as Brush: |
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|9. Now on your keyboard, click the Delete button twice and now your image should look similar to this: |
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|10. Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options: |
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| a) Add an Outer Glow: |
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| b) Add Bevel and Emboss: |
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| c) Add Contour to the Bevel and Emboss: |
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| d) Add a Color Overlay: |
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|11. Now your image should look similar to this: |
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|12. Create a new layer beneath the 1st layer, with your new layer selected hold Ctrl and then click on the 1st layer to make a |
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|13. Select > Modify > Contract and set it to 3px: |
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|14. Fill it in with any color, deselect the shape by going to Select > Deselect or Ctrl+D, then go to Filter > Layer Style > |
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| a) Add Bevel and Emboss: |
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| b) Add a Color Overlay: |
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| c) Add a Stroke: |
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|15. Now select the 1st layer, choose the Elliptical Marquee Tool and set the settings as below: |
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|16. Click once on your image and drag your selection over the tube like below: |
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|17. Press the Delete button on your keyboard, then deselect the shape and you should get the same result as below: |
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|18. Repeat the 2 steps above but move the selection to different places on the tube and you will get something similar to this: |
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Start a new document and fill the background with black.
Im using a dark black to blue gradient.
Use the type tool to create your text in white. Then CTRL+CLICK on your text layer to make a selection of the text.
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Now Create a new layer, then go to Filter->Render->Clouds.
Press CTRL+F once to reapply the filter.
Now HIDE the original text layer so you only have the new clouds layer showing.
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Press CTRL+D to deselect.
Now go to Filter->Sharpen->Unsharp Mask.
Amount->500%. Radius: 4px. Threshold: 8 levels
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Now go to Filter->Stylize->Wind
Method: Wind. Direction: from the right
Now do the above again, this time Direction from the left.
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Now CTRL+CLICK on the original text layer to load the original text's selection.(the one that is hidden. just ctrl+click it, do not show it).
Now go to Select->Modify->Contract. Enter 5 pixel.(this depends on how big your text is, for the size im using here, i need 5 pixels).
Now go to Select->Feather enter 3 pixels.
Then go to Select->Inverse
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Now go to Filter->Stylize->wind
Method: Stagger. Direction: From the Right
Repeat the above step, but this time, direction: From the Left.
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Now go to Filter->Distort->Twirl.
Set angle to around 350 (or any amount to your liking).
Now CTRL+D to deselect.
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Now to add some colors to your image, just go to Image->Adjustments->Color Balance. and play around with the sliders on different Tone Balance.
Another thing you can do is Show the original text layer and set its blending mode to Exclusion, and move it on top of the effects layer.
Here is mine, also after changing the background color.
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first write some text make sure the font color is white then right click the layer and do 'Blending Options' in that window, select 'drop shadow' and use:
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then select inner shadow and use:
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then select inner glow (make sure you chose white for the color) and use:
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then select Bevel & Emboss and use:
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then select satin and use the default settings
then select gradient overlay and use:
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then select stroke and use:
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this text should be used under color balance and with a thick type font if you use a thinner font adjust the settings for best look and blending.also remember that this is just a base to use play around with a few of the settings such as opacity of satin and inner glow
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Start a new document 700x300 with white background.
Using the "Type Tool", create your text, make it large. Then go to Layer->Rasterize->Type to rasterize this text.
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Now select the paint brush tool, select brush size 19 Hard Edge. Set foreground color to "black".
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- Using the brush tool, spot paint over the text layer to create "spats" effect.
- You can overlap the spots to give it a more random effect rather than just circular.
- Paint on the bottom edge of the text too to give it a dripping look.
- You can also switch the brush sizes to make different sized drops.
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Now CTRL+Click on the layer to load the selection. Switch to the Channels' pallete and create a new channel. then fill the selection with WHITE.
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CTRL+D to deselect. Then go to Filter->Blur->Gaussian Blur. Set Radius to 5.0
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Now go to Image->Adjustments->Levels to load the levels pallete. adjust the setting until the image is sharp or readable.
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Now CTRL+Click on the channel to load the selection.
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Now switch back to the Layer's pallete. You can now hide the original text layer by clicking on the eye icon.
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Create a new layer, and fill the selection on that new layer with color : #FFC85A. Then CTRL+D to deselect.
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Now apply drop shadow style to this layer. Layer->Layer Style->Drop Shadow.
Note: Only modify the settings shown on the screenshot and leave the rest at default.
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Now apply the Bevel and Emboss Layer style. Layer->Layer Style->Bevel and Emboss[pic]
Just under Bevel and Emboss, there is a Contour check box. Check it. Apply the following:
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Play around with the "Range" setting to get different effects. You can also play around with hue and saturation to change the colors of the text.
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Step 1 Make a new document, big enough to hold your chosen font and size. I chose the font "Ethnocentric". You can download it from the Zymic font section.
Type out your chosen text on a background with the colour "#403434".
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Step 2 Bring up the blending options for the text layer.
Drop Shadow
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Step 3 Outer Glow
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Step 4 Bevel & Emboss
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Step 5 Gradient Overlay
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Step 6 Stroke
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Step 7 This text will look good on a lot of things!
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Text on Ice Cave Wall
Author: Nathan Ng
Description: In this tutorial, i'll show you how to make text on a ice cave wall. The end result is a realistic rocky wall of an ice cave.
|[pic] |Start a new document 600x600 then set your foreground color to Black and |
| |background color to grey. |
| |[pic] |
| |Then go to Filter->Render->Clouds. |
|[pic] |Set your foreground color to BLACK. |
| |Use the Type Tool to create a black text. Make it BIG. |
| |Then go to Layer->Merge Visible. |
|[pic] |Now go to Filter->Stylize->Glow Edges. |
| |Edge Width: 14 |
| |Edge Brightness: 20 |
| |Smoothness: 15 |
|[pic] |Now go to image->rotate canvas->90 CW. |
| |Filter->Stylize-Wind |
| |Method: Wind |
| |Direction: From the Right. |
| |Filter->Stylize-Wind |
| |Method: Wind |
| |Direction: From the Left. |
| |Filter->Stylize-Wind |
| |Method: Wind |
| |Direction: From the Right. |
| |Now go to image->rotate canvas->90 CCW. to rotate it back to normal. |
|[pic] |Now go to Filter->Render->Lighting Effects. |
| |(The blue color is #2981C0) |
| |[pic] |
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|Here is mine: |
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1. Start off with the size of the picture you want it to be. I chose a 500 x 200 document. Make sure the background is white.
2. Choose whatever text you want, I chose Century Gothic, and type your message or name on it.
3.Right click on the text layer on the bottom left corner, and select Blending Options. Choose these settings:
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4. After putting in the settings, you should have your final image, looking like this:
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Create new document (200x200 pixels Type some text with the Type-tool
Now go render you text. Layer -> Rasterize -> Type
[pic]2 Make a copy of the layer. Layer > Duplicate Layer Choose the new layer and go Edit > Fill
USE = White
MODE = Multiply Use Filter > Blur > Gaussion Blur (option is about 2,0)
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3 Now you should do Filter >Stylize >Solarize Then take the Image >Adjust >Auto levels
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4 Use the Filter > Stylize >Wind
Wind in Method and From the left Then you rotate the picture. Image >Rotate Canvas >90CW Use the Wind-filter again, and repeat this step 3 times.
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5 For making the effect better use Filter >Blur > Radial Blur
Blur method = zoom
Quality = best
Amount (depends on font-size) = 80
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6 Now you can add some color with CTRL + U and you are fit
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|Step 1 |
|Open up your image. Landscapes images usually work best with this method, but you can try it on anything. Take a look at the |
|image and see where you would like to put the water, pay special attention to the details such as where water might happen to |
|flow into cracks, crevices etc. |
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|Step 2 |
|Create a new layer and use the rectangular marquee [pic]to draw a box around the general area where you want the water. Press D |
|for default colors [pic]then go to filter>render>clouds. Deselect by pressing ctrl-d. |
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|Step 3 |
|Duplicate the background layer and move the duplicate on top of the clouds layer. Now with the duplicate layer selected, go to |
|edit>transform>flip vertical to turn it upside down. Hold down the alt button on your keyboard and click in between the two |
|layers. This will create a clipping layer [pic]. |
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|Step 4 |
|Make sure the duplicate layer is selected and select the Move Tool [pic]. Hold down shift on your keyboard and use the keyboard |
|down arrow to move the image down until it is a 'reflection'. Let go of the shift key and use the down arrow to fine tune the |
|move. |
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|Step 5 |
|With the duplicate layer still highlighted, go to filter>distort>ripple to give it a little bit of a ripple to taste. I used |
|medium and 100% in this example. Set the opacity down to about 50%. |
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|Step 6 |
|Now click on the clouds layer and choose the Eraser tool [pic], set the brush to a soft edge brush. This part really depends on |
|your picture in general, but try to erase the parts of this layer where objects might be extruding into the water. In this |
|example, I erased it most where the rocks would be coming out into the water, and let the water go deeper into the crevices. In |
|the below example I highlighted in red the line where I erased. |
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|Step 7 |
|Go to blending options on the clouds layer and add a stroke. Set the position to outside, fill type to gradient, style to shape |
|burst, size to about 4, opacity to about 30%, and use a transparent -> black gradient. To set the gradient to transparent -> |
|black click on the gradient bar to open up the gradient editor. Set both colors to black, and set the opacity on the left-hand |
|side to 0 like in the below diagram. |
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|Step 8 |
|Now create a new layer above all the other layers and with a soft brush [pic], paint black in places where shadows might be |
|coming from the rocks. |
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|Step 9 |
|Set the opacity on the shadow layer to about 70 or so. You should now have a good beginning to some realistic water. From here |
|you'll want to add any highlights/features you want, and adjust the opacity and underlying colors depending on what type of |
|environment and sky your image is using. |
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Step 1. Create a 400x200 document. Press 'D' to reset the foreground and background to the default value.
Step 2. Use the Horizontal Type Tool (T) to print the text. We typed 'Sun Set' and used the following parameters for the text: Dutch801 XBd BT, Extra Bold, 64pt.
Step 3. To make a slight horizontal skew for the text select 'Move Tool', and then check 'Show Bounding Box' in the Options bar. As a result a bounding rectangle will appear around the text. The Options bar will give a chance to modify the text parameters. We set the horizontal skew value to '-10'. If you do the same you will have the text similar to this:
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Step 4. Right-click the text layer in the Layers window and select 'Blending Options'. Now go to 'Stroke' and set 'Size' to 1 px and 'Color' to #000000.
Step 5. Go to 'Gradient Overlay' and set the parameters like shown in the picture below. Choose 'Blue, Red, Yellow' gradient for your gradient overlay. After you've done that hit Enter.
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Step 6. Look at your text now. Does not it remind you a picture of the sun setting with a red circle in the center and the blue sky on the left and on the right? Now we will add 'clouds' to the text by making the text embossed. Go to 'Bevel and Emboss' in 'Blending Options' and set 'Depth' to 141% and 'Size' to 7px.
Step 7. Now go to 'Texture' in 'Blending Options', choose the Pattern that will create the effect of clouds for your text (we used 'Bubbles' pattern for this tutorial).
Step 8. Now go to 'Drop Shadow' in 'Blending Options' and play with the shade for your text. When you hit Enter you will get a text effect similar to the one shown below:
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Author: Nathan Ng
Description: This tutorial will show you how to create text that appears to be engraved onto an big tree. The end result looks very photo-realistic.
|[pic] |Start a new document 600x600. Press "D" to reset your colors to black and white. |
| |[pic] |
| |Then go to Filters->Renders->Clouds. |
|[pic] |Choose the Type Tool and create your text in white. Make it as big as possible, |
| |then duplicate this text layer. |
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| |Merge the first text layer with the background, then hide the top text layer (wiz |
| |copy). |
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|[pic] |Now go to Filter->Render->Lighting Effects. |
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|[pic] |How hit CTRL+F to reapply the lighting effect. Keep doing this until you end up |
| |with something similar to mine. I did it 5 times |
|[pic] |Now show/enable the top layer. |
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|[pic] |Set the blending mode of the top layer to "Overlay" and opacity to 50%. |
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|Step 1 |
|Make a new image and fill the background layer with black. Go to filter>texture>patchwork and use square size around 10 and |
|relief of about 8. It won't appear to do anything, but we'll bring out the stones in the next step. |
|Step 2 |
|Go to image>adjustments>auto levels and you should see the stones come into view. You can also use image>adjustments>levels if |
|you want to control for yourself the levels. |
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|Step 3 |
|Get out the text tool and choose a thick font. Write whatever text you want. |
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|Step 4 |
|Now ctrl-click the text layer to make a selection of the text. Click on the background layer and press ctrl-c to copy, ctrl-n to |
|create a new image (hit OK), and finally ctrl-v to paste. |
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|Step 5 |
|Now all that's left is some blending options. Adjust them to taste. I used a default drop shadow, a 1px black inner stroke, and a|
|chisel hard bevel. |
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|Step 6 |
|Optional Step: Duplicate the layer and set the blending mode to color burn. This will give you a grungy 'black metal' sort of |
|text. |
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Step 1) You ready for this. Keep up, there’s a lot to cover. First, create a new document. I chose a banner size.
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Step 2) Choose a brick color such as the one in the picture. Fill the background layer with this color.
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Step 3) (Filters/Filter Gallery/Texturizer)
Choose brick, top left lighting. Make the bricks look big enough. Click ok
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Step 4) Select the type tool. Type something. Choose a graffiti looking font like TagsXtreme. I think I got this font from the 1001 free fonts website.
Step 5) The worst part of any tutorials… layer effects!!! I could type them out, but that’s too much work, so here just download the style and look for you self. Remember that these effects were created for the size of the image I used. You may notice a difference if your image is much larger, or smaller in size compared to mine.graffiti.asl
Step 6) Duplicate the text layer. Link the text layers and combine them. This will flatten the layer effects. Tell me, why isn’t their a command to rasterize layer effects?
Step 7) Ad more layer effects. I chose a simple outer glow. Then ad a sharp drop shadow for that cartoonist effect. This style was also in the styles file in step 5.
Step 8) If you want that paint dripping effect that we see so often, Filter>Liquify. Use the forward warp tool to push the graffiti down, then use the bloat tool to make the “paint” bulge like its dripping as you can see in the final image on the bottom of the R and I.
Step 9) Create a new layer above the rest. This is your highlights layer. Create little highlights on the top left of the paint drips, and make little cartoonist starbursts at the corners of the graffiti. If your lazy like me, you will create a single star burst and then just duplicate the layer as many times as needed. Step 10) Finally reduce the fill so that some of the brick wall shows through. Somewhere between 70 and 90 should look good. I’ll let you be the judge. Important NOTE: A certain Mr. Tyler suggested to change the blend mode of the text to overlay. Thank you Tyler, all suggestions are welcome and help us all. I appreciate the input. [pic]Extra Step) I duplicated the graffiti layer and merged them to rasterize the layer effects, the performed Filter>Texterizer>Brick with the same settings as before on the graffiti layer. Then I hit Edit>Fade Effect and reduced the opacity a bit. It looked like this
Step 1
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Open a new document and fill with a black background, and set invisible by clicking the eye. Type some text like above.
Step 2
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Duplicate your text layer (CTRL+J). Double click the layer and use the above outer glow settigns. Select a light blue of your choice.
Step 3
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Still on your duplicated layer, use the above Inner Glow Settings.
Step 4
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On your origional text layer, use the above outer glow settings. Your layer setting should look similar to this. Create a new layer and bring to front. Set the blending mode to color dodge and render clounds. Adjust the brightness/contrast to the above settings (I suggest you experiment).
Final Product
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If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to post below! If you enjoy this tutorial, please join our community and make an introduction!
I saw this effect from a video tutorial, but their method is so long winded, I re-created this effect using a different method and effects to get a more realistic (thought not perfect) effect on the metal.
Note: The original tutorial was a little confusing, this tutorial has been re-written from step 1, so it should be easy to follow now.
|[pic] |Start a new document with white background. |
| |Select the type tool and type in your text. Make it rather large, for learning |
| |purpose, use the same settings as mine to start off with so we get the same result,|
| |once you mastered the technique, you can then alter it for the desired effect. |
| |I chose BOLD Georgia, size 150px. Make it GREY (#BBBBBB) |
|[pic] |Apply Bevel & Emboss layer style to this text. |
| |- Inner Shadow |
| |- Bevel and Emboss |
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| | |
|[pic] |Now right click on the [pic]icon on the layer and select "Create Layers" |
| |What we've just done is create a layer for each style we applied. |
| |Click to view (take note of the names of each layer) |
| |Now set Inner Bevel Highlight's layer's blending mode to "Vivid Light" |
|[pic] |Now select the "Inner Shadow" layer, and apply Filter->Blur->Motion Blur |
| |Set Angle about 10 and Distance: 20 |
|[pic] |Now add little drop shadow (Layer->Layer Style->Drop Shadow) to the main layer |
| |(ORGINAL layer), just leave it at the default will do. |
| |Then rasterize this layer, go to Layer->Rasterize->Layer |
|[pic] |Now create a new layer [pic]on the layers pallete. |
| |note: You must click on the background layer when creating a new layer otherwise |
| |the new layer will be created with the styles layers. |
| |Use the rectangle marquee tool and make a small rectangular selection and fill it |
| |with black on the new layer. |
| |DO NOT deselect yet |
|[pic] |Then go to SELECT->Modify->Expand then enter 3. |
| |DO NOT deselect yet |
|[pic] |Now go to Filter->Pattern Maker. |
| |set sample detail to about 3px. then click GENERATE |
| |The pattern maker will generate something similar to the image on the left. |
| |Then click ok. |
| |Now that new layer should be filled with the pattern |
| |NOTE: if you are user photoshop version 6, the pattern maker filter is not there, |
| |CLICK HERE to download a copy of the patterns. copy and paste it over your text, |
| |CTRL+CLICK on it to load the selection. Alternatively, you can use the lasso tool |
| |and make your own random selection. |
|[pic] |CTRL+CLICK the new pattern layer to make a selection of the pattern. |
| |Then HIDE (by clicking on the eye [pic]icon next to the layer) pattern layer, and |
| |click on the text layer to make it the working layer. |
| |[pic] |
|[pic] |Now with the Move Tool selected [pic], use your arrows on your keyboard, move to |
| |the left 5 times and down twice. |
| |Now you can deselect (CTRL+D) |
| |Then go to "Image->Adjustment->Brightness/Contrast" |
| |Brightness: -15 |
| |Contrast: +50 |
Step 1
Open a new document. For the purpose of this tutorial, I used a 500x500px, 72 DPI, and white background. Now, create a new layer and put your logo in it. Make sure your logo is all merged into one layer, or else this technique will not work. I have used, as I do in many of my tutorials, my PixelFull logo
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Step 2
Now we are going to add the poser 3d perspective, without this step, you will not be able to create anything 3d in this technique. Go to Edit>Transform>Perspective. Click the top right corner and drag it a bit closer to the middle. Then grab the bottom right corner and drag it a little bit away from the middle. You should have something simaler to this
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Now, go to Edit>Free Transform and drag the top line a bit close to the middle so the logo looks a more flat.
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Now ctrl+click your current logo layer and fill it with a light grey shade like you see in mine.
Step 3
Now duplicate this layer, ctrl+click the new layer and fill it with a darker shade of grey or black. And move it up 7 pixels.
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To be honest, some say this actually looks better than the result we will achieve in the end. It is up to you wether you choose to keep it this way or change it.
Step 4
Now go to your 1st layer with the logo on it. Hold ALT and press the arrow up button on your keyboard 1 time less than the number of times you moved up the 2nd logo layer. In this case (7-1) we nudge it up 6 pixels. Holding the alt button while doing this will cause it to duplicate itself each time you nudge it. You should now have something like this:
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Well, that looks pretty nice don't you think?
You are now finished your 3d text. Now add a background and a shadow or reflection.
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Awesome! You are done!
Good Luck and Have Fun!
Copyright 2004 PixelFull Productions
Photoshop Explosive Text Tutorial
|So you're ready to make some exploding text in Photoshop? The first step is to |[pic] |
|start a new file with a white background and put in some black text. I find that a | |
|thicker stronger font works best (I used Photo here). When you have you text | |
|situated how you want it, rasterize the text layer (right click the text layer in | |
|the layers palette and choose rasterize layer). You have to rasterize text layers | |
|in Photoshop in order to manipulate them. | |
|Next flatten the image and then duplicate it. In your new layer (should be called |[pic] |
|background copy) fill with white using the fill option (Edit/Fill) with the mode | |
|set to multiply. Now we are going to do a gaussian blur. Blur the image by 2 or 3 | |
|pixels. | |
|Next, solarize the image. You can find this under Filter/Stylize/Solarize. |[pic] |
|Next you're going to set the levels. Go to Image/Adjust/Auto Levels. |[pic] |
|OK you with me so far? Now you are going to duplicate the image again, this step is|[pic] |
|important, don't miss it!!. | |
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| | |
|Then we are going to really screw with the image. Go to your filters and under | |
|distort choose Polar Cordinates, make sure that polar to rect. is checked and hit | |
|ok. You should get something like the image on the right. | |
|Now rotate the image 90 degrees clockwise. |[pic] |
|Invert the image (Image/Adjustments/Invert). |[pic] |
|Now we're going to screw with the image some more. Go to your filters and under |[pic] |
|Stylize choose wind. Make sure that you're blowing from the right and that you're | |
|on wind. Apply this filter three times. | |
|Next set the levels again using the auto levels command (Image/Adjustments/Auto |[pic] |
|Levels). | |
|Invert the image yet again. |[pic] |
|With the image inverted apply the wind filter three more times. |[pic] |
|Rotate the canvas 90 degrees counter clockwise to get it off its side. |[pic] |
|Now go back to your distort filters. Choose polar coordinates again but this time |[pic] |
|set it to rect. to polar. | |
|We are almost done, are you excited yet? Go to Image/Adjust/Hue Saturation and make|[pic] |
|sure that colorize is checked. Move the sliders around until you find a color | |
|scheme that you like and hit ok. | |
|Remember way back when when I told you to duplicate a level, this is when it comes |[pic] |
|into effect. You should have three different layers. Move the middle layer so that | |
|it is on top. Set the mode to screen and fiddle with the opacity (75% or so is | |
|good) and you're done!!! | |
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|If you have any questions or comments about this photoshop tutorial please ask in | |
|the forum. | |
|1 |[pic] |Create a new document. |
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|2 |[pic] |Type in the text that will have flames behind it. |
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|3 |[pic] |Create a new layer (Ctrl+Shift+N) underneath the text layer. |
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|4 |[pic] |Make a selection of the text layer (Ctrl+Click on the text layer), |
| | |expand the selection (Select> Modify> Expand) by 5 to 10 pixels and |
| | |feather the selection (Ctrl+Alt+D) by 5 to 10 pixels. |
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|5 |[pic] |With the middle layer selected, apply a "Clouds" filter (Filter> Render>|
| | |Clouds) to the selection. Deselect (Ctrl+D). |
|6 |[pic] |Use the "Liquify" filter to warp the layer so that it looks similar to |
| | |the image in this step. Use the "Forward Warp Tool" with a large brush |
| | |size. |
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|7 |[pic] |Select a smaller brush size and warp the edges to create more detail. |
| | |Click OK. |
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|8 |[pic] |On the current layer, use the "Hue/Saturation" tool (Ctrl+U) to apply |
| | |the following properties: |
| | |Hue: 25 |
| | |Saturation: 100 |
| | |Lightness: 0 |
| | |Click OK. |
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|9 |[pic] |Dupicate the current layer (Ctrl+J) and set the current layer's blending|
| | |mode to "Color Dodge". |
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|10 |[pic] |On the new layer, use the "Hue/Saturation" tool (Ctrl+U) to apply the |
| | |following properties: |
| | |Hue: -10 |
| | |Saturation: 0 |
| | |Lightness: 0 |
| | |Click OK. |
|11 |[pic] |Create a new layer (Ctrl+Shift+N) as the top layer and apply a "Clouds" |
| | |filter (Filter> Render> Clouds). |
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|12 |[pic] |Set the layer's blending mode to "Linear Light" and add a layer mask |
| | |(Layer> Add layer mask> Reveal All). |
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|13 |[pic] |With the layer mask selected, use the "Apply Image" tool to apply the |
| | |following properties: |
| | |Source: filename |
| | |Layer: Layer 1 |
| | |Channel: RGB |
| | |Invert: Uncheckmarked |
| | |Blending: Normal |
| | |Opacity: 100% |
| | |Click OK. |
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|14 |[pic] |Invert (Ctrl+I) the layer mask. |
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|15 |[pic] |With the layer mask selected, use the "Brightness/Contrast" tool to |
| | |apply the following properties: |
| | |Brightness: -25 |
| | |Contrast: 75 |
| | |Click OK. |
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|16 |[pic] |Invert the layer "Background" (Ctrl+I). |
Photoshop Frozen Text Tutorial
|The first thing that you need to do in order to make some |[pic] |
|frozen text in Photoshop is to put some black letters on a | |
|white background. I used 80pt Cooper black in my example. | |
|Once you have your text situated how you want it, rasterize | |
|the text layer. And then flatten the image. | |
|All right, using the magic wand tool select the white |[pic] |
|background (you do not have to worry about selecting the | |
|inside of letters, such as the middle of an O). Apply the | |
|Crystallize filter using a value of 10. Your text should have| |
|a jagged look now. | |
|OK, now do a select inverse so that your text is selected. |[pic] |
|Under your filters menu find the noise filter and add noise | |
|with a value of 70 with the distribution set to Gaussian | |
|With the text still selected run a slight Gaussian blur over |[pic] |
|it. Use a value of 2 or so. | |
|This next step can be a little tricky. You need to adjust the curves, curves are one of the most powerful tools in Photoshop but |
|are mostly used for photo retouching, but you can also made some great effects with them too. Below you can find the settings |
|that I use when doing this effect. On the right is what the text should look like after you have changed the curves. |
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|Deselect the image. Then invert it (image/adjust/invert) |[pic] |
|Rotate the image 90cw. |[pic] |
|Apply the wind filter. For short icicles use the wind filter |[pic] |
|once, for long do it twice. I used it twice in this example. | |
|Straighten up the image by rotating it 90ccw. |[pic] |
|Now it is time to give the image some color. Go to |[pic] |
|image/adjust/Hue Saturation and make sure that the colorize | |
|box is checked. Move the sliders around and find a color | |
|scheme that looks like ice to you. You may have to play with | |
|both the Hue and the Saturation levels for the desired | |
|effect. | |
|The last step really brings this effect to life. Choose your |[pic] |
|air brush tool and use one of the custom brushes that came | |
|with photoshop to give it that sparkle look. | |
| | |
|Any questions or comments on this Photoshop tutorial please | |
|discuss in the forum. | |
Step 1
Open a new document that is any size for your text (mine is 500x500), RGB, on White Background.
Fill the background color with black, and create a new text layer with the font of your choice as well as the color of your choice
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Step 2
Duplicate your text layer, and rasterize the new layer.(A). Then, rotate the canvas 90 Degrees CW
IMAGE>ROTATE CANVAS>90 CW.(B). And add the wind filter, from the right.(C)
(A)
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(B)
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(C)
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Now, rotate the canvas back to the original, (Image>Rotate Canvas>90 CCW)
and you should have something like this:
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Pretty cool huh? Real easy way to get ice text.
Now, play around with text color and blending modes, and come up with something like this
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Good luck!
Copyright PixelFull 2004 PixelFull Productions
|[pic] |[pic]Final result! |
| | |
| |Hey Guys! Ready for some yummy plastic text? This effect is made using lightning effects, the plastic wrap filter and |
| |layer styles, and I think it looks really smooth. |
| |Hmm - suddenly I got the urge for some bubble gum :) |
| | |
|[pic] |[pic]Fig. 1 |Start by opening a new image (mine is 500 x 170 pixels) |
| | |and select the Type Tool and type the desired word. Be |
| | |sure you use large letters for the effect to turn out |
| | |right - you can always minimize it later... (Font used: |
| | |Yellow Submarine - 200 pt) |
| | | |
| | |Select the text by hitting Ctrl + left clicking the text|
| | |layer. |
| | |Create a new layer (call it text) - select the |
| | |Paintbucket Tool and fill the selection with a light |
| | |blue color (I used font color #6897BB). |
| | |Hide the original text layer. |
| | |Keep your selection and go to Channels. |
| | | |
|[pic] |[pic] |Now click the "Save selection as channel" button, and |
| | |then drag the Alpha 1 layer down to the Create new layer|
| | |tab to duplicate it. |
| | |Now we have to blur things up a bit. |
| | |Still at the Alpha 1 copy layer go to: |
| | |Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur - 8 pixels |
| | |Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur - 6 pixels |
| | |Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur - 3 pixels |
| | |Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur - 1 pixels |
| | |Now go back to Layers. |
| | |PS! Still keep your selection! |
| | | |
|[pic] |[pic]Fig. 4 |
| |Select the layer called "text" and go to Filter - Render - Lightning effects - and use the setting shown in fig. 4. |
| | |
|[pic] |[pic]Fig. 5 |Still keep your selection and go to |
| | |Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur - 1 pixel. |
| | |Select - Modify - Contract - 1 pixel. |
| | |Then hit Ctrl + Shift + I to invert the selection and |
| | |hit Delete to get nice clean edges. |
| | |Now it's time to deselect (Ctrl + D). |
| | |Now drag this layer down to the Create a new layer tab |
| | |to duplicate it. Call this layer Plastic wrap. |
| | | |
|[pic] |[pic] |Now go to Filter - Artistic - Plastic Wrap and enter the|
| |Fig. 6 |values shown in figure 6. |
| | |Now duplicate this layer. |
| | |On the Plastic Wrap copy layer change the layer mode |
| | |from Normal to Overlay. |
|[pic] |[pic] |Go back to the Plastic Wrap layer and add a nice drop |
| |Fig. 7 |shadow with the values shown in fig. 7. |
| | |Your image should now look like final result image at |
| | |the top of the page. |
| | |Want more? |
| | |Want really shiny plastic? |
| | |Well - keep on reading... |
| | |We're just a few steps away from getting the result |
| | |shown in figure 8. |
|[pic] |[pic]Fig. 8 |
| |Activate the Plastic Wrap layer and go to Layer - New Adjustment Layer - Hue/Saturation and check the Group with |
| |previous layer option - OK. |
| |In the Hue/Saturation window check the Colorize option and enter Hue: 304 and Saturation: 100 - OK. |
| |Remember the very first text layer we made? Hit Ctrl + left click the original text layer. Select the Rectangular |
| |Marquee Tool and use the arrow keys to move the selection 4 pixels to the right and 4 pixels down. Then hit Ctrl + Shift|
| |+ left click the original text layer again. Now you shall have the text layer + the shadow area selected. |
| |Go to Edit - Copy Merged. |
| |Then create a new file with the same size as the original image - white background. Edit - Paste. |
| |The last thing you have to do is to add a nice drop shadow effect and you're done! |
| |(I used the default setting in the Drop Shadow layer style - I just changed the color to #76008A and the opacity to 51 |
| |%). |
1[pic]Make a new document, select the type tool, and write what you want in a standard font (I used arial). This font will act like a guide and won't remain in the final image. 2[pic] Make a new layer. Now using the pencil tool ([pic]) draw over the text you have typed, over and over (3-6 times). Don't worry about going outside the shape it will add to the effect. Choose an appropriately sized brush depending on the size of your text - small text = small brush. [pic][pic] [pic]3[pic]Press the layer visability button for the typed text layer (the little eye next to the layer : [pic]) This turns off the text layer and leaves the drawn type visable.
|Step 1 |
|First start of with a new document 500x500 pixels and select your text tool and put in any text you want, make it a fairly big |
|size. Make the foreground of the text black. |
|[pic] |
|Step 2 |
|Now going to give it a chrome effect, on your layers palette hold CTRL and click text layer and the go to {Filter » Sketch » |
|Chrome} and enter these settings: |
| |
|Detail = 4 |
|Smoothness = 7 |
| |
|You should have something that looks like this: |
|[pic] |
|Step 3 |
|While still selecting all of the text outline, go to {Select » Modify » Expand} and enter in 3. You will see that your text has |
|enlareged its outline. Make a new layer call it {bg}, drag it below your text layer and fill it in with a grey colour #D0D0D0. |
|You should have someting that looks like this: |
|[pic] |
|Step 4 |
|Now we are going to add a stroke to the background, in your layers palette, select {bg} layer and go to {Layer » Layer Style » |
|Blending Options » Stroke}. And make the colour black and size 1px. |
|[pic] |
|Step 5 |
|The final touch, adding the stroke to the text. On layers palette select your text, and go to {Layer » Layer Style » Blending |
|Options » Stroke}. And make the colour black and size 1px. Really you should have something that looks like this: |
|[pic] |
We will be making this:
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1.First make a new document in photoshop (300x300).
2. Pull out the gradient tool, and using the preset from whit to black, make a dark background:
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3.Now take out your pen tool. Set it up like this:
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4.Make some designs on your image with the pen tool, these are where the pipes will go:
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5.Now get out your brush tool, and set it up as follows:
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6.Go back to your pen tool, and then go into the paths panel (click paths in your layers manager) and click your path, then right click your image. Click stroke path:
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Select your path
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Be sure your in a new layer, Right click and press stroke path. Select your brush tool in the drop down menu.
7.Go into the blending options for this layer, and set it up as follows:
Drop Shadow
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Inner Shadow
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Bevel and Emboss
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8.Create a new document, 300x300. Select a light brown as your foreground color, and then go to filter > Render > Clouds:[pic]
9.Paste this image over your wire layer in your first document, and set the blending mode to Color Dodge:
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And that's it!
Good Luck!
Fire Text
1. Make a new document, you may use any size you like, I used 300x100. You may also use any background color you like but black works best.
|2.|Set your foreground color white and the background to black. |
3. Using the type tool type and text you like in the middle of the canvas.
4. Go to Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CW.
5. Go to filter > stylize > wind. Use the settings below.
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6. Duplicate your text layer (right click the layer and choose duplicate). Select the bottom text layer and click Ctrl + F.
7. Go to Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CW. Press Ctrl + F to reapply to wind filter. Press Ctrl + F again.
8. Go to Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CW. Press Ctrl + F to reapply to wind filter.
9. Go to Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CW. Press Ctrl + F to reapply to wind filter.
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10. Double click the top layer to bring up layer styles. Click on color overlay and choose black for the color.
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11. Double click the bottom layer. Click on color overlay and choose red (FF0000) as the color.
12. With the bottom layer selected go to filter > distort > ripple. Choose 230% for the setting.
13. Click on the top layer and go to filter > distort > ripple. Choose 50% for the setting.
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14. For a greater effect repeat steps 5-9 for the bottom layer, you should get the below image.
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Grunge Text:
Welcome! Open up your image that you want to apply this text effect to.
I feel this really makes a grunge image, but of course can be used for anything! Alot of this depends on the font. In this tutorial, I use Base 02 (). Also note the colours in this tutorial don't really matter. If you have the colour you want it anyway. Don't change your foreground and background. If at any time you asked to rsterize the type, press OK.
Phase One:
Set your foreground colour to: 2F7ECD
And your background to: FFFFFF
S1: Get your text tool, and write what text you want.
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S2: Now, go Filter>Stylize>Wind Use these settings: 'Wind', and from 'left to right'
S3: Filter>blur>blur
S4: Add this Stroke
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Phase Two:
You are finished, you can change the colour by holding 'Ctrl+U', and pressing the colorize box.: [pic]
1) Make a new document. Select the Type Tool and put in a nice BOLD word. I used ARIAL font.
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2) Now go to Filter>Distort>Ripple. It will ask you rasterize the layer before continueing so just press OK to that and add these ripple numbers:
[pic]
Ok, so now go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and use the the following settings:
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3) Now here comes the fun part. Lets make some gold!! Ok right click the text layer. Go to Blending Options and apply all settings as seen below!
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I used the cloud texture.
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Finito! Enjoy the gold nugget text effect!
[pic]1. Make a new image, ours is 350 x 100 px - with a transparent background
2. grab the Text tool, set the size to 40 and the font to Verdana - in Bold - colour dosent matter
|[pic] |
3. click Layer > Layer style > Blending options, and check the following Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Bevel + Emboss, color overlay, stroke
4. On the option "drop shadow" give it the following settings: (colour is 000000)
|[pic] |
5. inner shadow has these settings... (colour is 807030)
|[pic] |
6. Then bevel and emboss has these....
|[pic] |
7. color overlay has these next ones... (colour is A97E00)
|[pic] |
8. Finally Stroke... (colour is 70582f)
|[pic] |
9. Finally... click OK.. and TADA! instant Gold!
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EXTRA!!! Make your text Silver or Bronze!!!
SILVER!
after completing the gold tutorial, on the layers, inner shadow, color overlay and stroke - move the crosshair all the way to the left on the colour(try to keep it on the same level going across)
|[pic] |
|Click to enlarge |
BRONZE!
after completing the gold tutorial, on the layers, inner shadow, color overlay and stroke - move the colour slider (where the colours look like a rainbow) down about half a cemtimeter to make it a more red colour
|[pic] |
1. Create a new photoshop document, with these settings. "Opaque background (#FFFFFF), 500x200 pixels"
2. Create a new layer, select a text color, and use the text tool to type in the text you would like to make 3D. (In order to get the best results, use a thick font, as shown below.)
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3. Duplicate the current layer by dragging the layer to the new layer button in the layers palette. Then move the new copied layer below the origial layer. Make sure the copied layer is selected and click on the little "f" and go to "Bevel and Emboss". Use the settings in the image below.
[pic]
4. This step actually requires some concentration. To do it right, follow my instructions, or your document will be screwed up! Instead of clicking duplicate layer a million times over, we are taking the easy way out.
Turn off the original text layer by clicking on the eye next to the layer. Select the Move Tool and press "ALT+UP", then let go, and press the RIGHT arrow. Do this about 5 or six times, depending on the depth you want on the text.
5. Turn the original text layer back on then click on the layer. Select the move tool and move the text up and slightly to the right. It should now look like the image below.
[pic]
Bonus step! If you aren't satisfied with your document's look, try applying some layer effects to get a cool look. I ended up with this.
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Tutorial Submitted by: Zak
1. The first thing you will need is a spiral to apply your text on: Create a colored rectangle (Make sure you are using a high resolution canvas)
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2. Use the Twirl Filter (>Filter>Distort>Twirl).
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3. Select the shape (CTRL+Click on the Layer).
4. Go to the Path Menu and click on the "Make Work Path" button.
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5. Hide all the layers.
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6. Select the Type Tool [pic]and click on the Path.
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7. Type in your text.
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You can now paste your funky text on your layout.
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|1 |[pic] |Create a new document and use the "Text" tool (T) to enter your text in |
| | |the middle of the canvas. To center the text, select the canvas (Ctrl+A)|
| | |and align the text to the verticle (Layer> Align to Selection>Vertical |
| | |Center) and horizontal centers (Layer> Align to Selection>Horizontal |
| | |Center). |
[pic]
|2 |[pic] |Duplicate the current layer (Ctrl+J) and apply a Radial Blur (Filter> |
| | |Blur> Radial Blur) to the new layer. Apply the following properties in |
| | |the "Radial Blur" window: |
| | |Amount: 100 |
| | |Blur Method: Zoom |
| | |Quality: Best |
| | |Click OK. |
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|3 |[pic] |Duplicate the top layer to increase the effect. |
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|4 |[pic] |Decreasing the opacity of the text layer and your text should now look |
| | |similar to the image in this step. |
1.Open new document any size for this tutorial i did 420x120
2.Fill with black
3.Type your text in white, i used "High Tower Text" as my font
4.Duplicate the text layer
5.On the duplicarted text layer...
Select > Layer > Raterize Layer
6.Still on the duplicated text layer...
filter > stylize > wind
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7.ctrl + F until you have thwe amount of wind you want
8.Next still on the duplicated text layer...
filter > blur > gaussian blur
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9.Now on the original text layer add an outer glow and your done.
My final image but with a little twirl added on
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1.) Press D to get the default black & white colours. Press T to get the Type tool, then type in some bold text with a large size (I used Verdana, size 53), and place it at the bottom of the image. Make sure that your text only reaches halfway up the height of the image. This is important because you want to leave room for your smoke :). Name this text layer 'smoke'.
2.) Make a copy of the text by dragging the text layer onto the 'New layer' icon in the Layers palette. Name this new text layer 'fire'.
3.) With the fire layer selected, go to Filter > Sketch > Torn edges. Say OK for rendering the text layer, then use the settings
Image Balance=29
Smoothness=4
Contrast=10.
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4.) Now go to Filter > Stylize > Glowing edges . Set
Edge Width=2
Edge Brightness=6
Smoothness=5.
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5.) To colour it, use Image > Adjust > Hue/Saturation. Check Colorize, then enter
Hue=23
Saturation=90
Lightness=0,
press Ok.
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6.) Now where there's fire there's smoke, right :)? Let's create some smoke to go with it.. Turn off the visibility of the fire layer by clicking on the eye of that layer. Click back onto your smoke layer in the Layers palette.
7.) Go to Filter > Sketch > Torn edges. Say OK for rendering the text layer, then use the settings
Image Balance=29
, Smoothness=4
, Contrast=10.
8.) Now go to Filter > Distort > Ripple. Choose
Amount = 100%
Size = Large.
Press OK.
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9.) You're nearly finished! Change the Opacity of this layer to 75% in the Layers palette. Now turn the visibility of the fire layer on (reclick the eye box in the layer's palette), then click back onto the smoke layer again. Are you lost yet? :)
10.) Then hold down Ctrl and drag the smoke layer up so that it's sitting above the text on the fire layer, like real smoke. Of course real smoke doesn't make letters like this, but it looks kind of cool, so we'll ignore reality just this once.
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Create a new image in Photoshop by using: File/New. Make sure you give yourself tons of room; I used 400 x 400 here but then resized them for the tutoral. Then make the background black and add some text to the center of your picture. I chose a font called Colonna MT because it was thick and bold and had some flavor.
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Now you want to have the text layer highlighted an go under Filter/Distort/Polar Coordinates and click rectangular to polar. Next you are going to want to make three (3) copies of your layer, do this by right clicking the layer and pressing Duplicate Layer.
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Now we want to jazz this up a little so we are going to create a glow effect. To do this we highlight our bottom text layer and go under Filter/Blur /Gaussian Blur and use a number like 15. Now go to the layer above that and do the same thing except this time use 8 as your value. And you should have something like the image below.
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Page 2
1 [pic]Make a new image large enough to fit the text which you want to reflect,plus extra height. Type your text, and position at the top half of the document. 2 [pic]Select your text layer in the layers window and goto layer > duplicate layer. Call the layer reflection. Next goto edit > transform > flip horizontal. Now select the move tool ([pic]) and whilst holding down the shift key move the reflection layer down until the top of it is just under the original layer. [pic][pic] [pic]3 [pic]Right click on the reflection layer and select rasterize layer. Then select the layer and set the opacity to 50%.
Now choose the rectangular marquee tool and select half from the bottom of the reflected text to half way up. Then goto Select > Feather . Choose 40px, click ok, then press delete. Keep deleting until the bottom of the reflection has an effect you are happy with. (The value for the feather you will need to change depending on the size of the text.) Finished. You can put a slant to the relflection by going to edit > transform > perspective and dragging one of the middle nodes to the left or right. [pic]
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