Showing posts with label Text Effect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Text Effect. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Make Magic Shine

Step 1
Create a new document 400 x 300px and fill it will black.
Type the text in "Edwardian Script ITC", font-size 160 pt. Then, Go to the path palette and press the Make work path from selection button.







Step 2
Now the text is a path it is posible to stroke it with the brush. But before that you need to change the brush options.






Step 3
Now the brush is ready to stroke the text. Go to the layer palette and delete text layer or make it invisible. Make a new layer. Set white as the foreground color. Go to the path palette and right click om the Work Path and choose Stroke path. In the window that now appears choose for Brush and make sure Simulate pressure is not checked. The stroke is a little to hard to make this better: Change in the brushes palette the following options: Brush Tip Size: Diameter to 4px and Spacing to 130%. Scattering: Scatter 600% Stroke the path again but this time with the option Simulate pressure checked. Click in the palette path on an empty area. That way the path becomes inactive.






Step 4
Go to the layer palette and double click on the layer miniature of the sparkles layer to open the layer style window. Go to Drop Shadow and change the values as shown below:

Monday, December 15, 2008

Chocolate Style Effect

Step1
We start with a blank 400x300px canvas, and insert text:








Step2
Now, we are going to add a Drop Shadow, then add the following styles:









Step3

Next, we will create a chocolate icing-type border to the text. Select the Pen tool and draw a border.






Then go to the Paths Window (Window > Paths), and choose the Brush tool. Choose a size that you want the border thickness to be, then right-click the Path we just created (in the Paths Window) and choose Stroke Path. You can try both the Simulate Pressure checked and unchecked, see which you prefer.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Make Reflective Text

Step 1:
Create a new 640x480 pixels document with white background. Use the "Horizontal Type Tool"(T) and type anything you want. You should use blue text color.
Right click on "Tutorial" layer and select "Duplicate Layer".








Step 2:
Next Click on the "Move Tool"(V) and select "edit -> transform -> rotate 180" then "Flip Horizontal"
Click on the "Move Tool" again. A dialog box will appear to ask you confirm the transformation, click "Apply". Move the transformed layer near the original layer










Step 3:
Now click on "Add Layer Mask" beneath the "Layers" tab to add a mask to our transformed layer.
Press D, X to reset to Black Foreground - White Background, use the "Gradient Tool"(G) and choose "Foreground to Transparent" pattern.
and your text like this:










Step 4:
Then Go to Filter > Distort > Ocean Ripple and use these settings:








Finished! And this is the result:

Friday, July 18, 2008

Liquid Emboss Photoshop Text Effect

STEP 1
Create a new 640x480 RGB file with black background and create a title using Blue text. You can use this color #2fc1fe. Center it on the page.









STEP 2

Duplicate the layer.Now, we will be adding a few effects to the layer.

First apply an Inner Shadow with these values.
Now we will apply a Bevel.


















STEP 3

Now, load the selection by going to Select > Load Selection and then go to Select > Modify > Border - Use the value 15
Create a new layer and stroke it with 2 pixels.








Go to filter > Stylize > Wind - One from Left and One from Right

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Making Text Neon

STEP 1

Create a new document 400x400, Fill it with black paint.

Using white as your text colour, type your words of choice. This works for most fonts, I used Lucida Calligraphy. I set the font size to 100pt









STEP 2

Click the (f) in the layers pallet down bottom and click blending options. Set the fill opacity to 0, like pictured.









STEP 3

In the blending options window, Click outer glow and apply the settings pictured.
and then click stroke and apply the settings as pictured.
For gradient example see next step











STEP 4

Your final image should look very much like mine. (You can use pretty much any colour you like, Just modify the gradient to match.)

Monday, June 16, 2008

3D Style Text Effect


Its process is true modestly, but 3D Style Text Effect will yield the interesting appearance at our photo.
Following making its step :
1. First, open a new file with the dimensions 300 x 300 pixels with resolution 72 pixel/inch.
2. Now type some text with your Pen Tool, use 60pt, color black, the front is your choice.
3. Click menu Select > Load Selection (Choose Layer Transparency)
4. Click Layer > Flatten Image and then Select > Inverse.
5. Now, go to Filter > Pixelate > Crystallize (cell size 5) and then Select > Inverse.
6. Next , go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur (Radius 2.0)
7. Next , go to Image > Adjust > Curve and then press to crtl+D to deselect.
8. Now , go to Image > Adjust > Invert and then Image > Rotate Canvas > 90° CW.
9. Next , go to Filter > Stylize > Wind (method : wind direction ; From the right)
10. Next , go to Image > Rotate Canvas > 90° CCW.
11. Then go to Image > Adjust > Hue / Saturation, click colorize (according to desire).