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April 25, 2006

Cool Text Effect

Filed under: text-effects — admin @ 7:11 pm

Cool Text Effect
Start by typing your text with a bold font.
Right click the layer in layer window and select rasterize type.
Ctrl+Click the layer thumbnail to get the selection.
From select menu apply modify>>contract. Contract the selection by 3 pixels.
Press delete.
From select menu apply modify>>contract. Contract the selection again by 3 pixels. Fill it with black color.
Repeat the above steps.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.
Duplicate the layer. Double click the layer to open layer style window. Click on the styles tab on top left (shown in blue color) and select Black 2pt filled style from the default styles presets.










 

April 19, 2006

Black Hole Text Effect

Filed under: text-effects — admin @ 12:24 am

Black Hole Text Effect

Start by typing the text on a black background. Duplicate the layer and hide it.
Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.
From layer palette reduce the fill value for the text layer to 0.
From layer menu select layer style>>create layers. Select and merge resulting layers. Press Ctrl+U to open hue/saturation window. Apply settings as shown.
From filter menu select artistic>>plastic wrap. Apply settings as shown.
Duplicate the layer and change the layer mode to linear burn.
Duplicate the layer twice and move one instance upwards by few pixels and other downwards by few pixels.
Unhide the original text layer that we kept hidden in the first step.










 

March 14, 2006

Tooty Frooty Text Effect

Filed under: text-effects — admin @ 7:09 pm

Tooty Frooty Text Effect
Start by typing “TOOTY FROOTY”.
Right click the layer and select convert to shape.
Using direct selection tool you can select each alphabet and rotate and move.
In a new layer create some triangles, circles and squares with different color.
Merge all the shape layers. Ctrl+Click to get the selection. From edit menu select “Define Brush Preset”. Name this new brush “tootyfrooty brush”.
Press F5 to open brush settings. Adjust settings as shown.
Apply the brush in a new layer.
Ctrl+Click the text layer to get the selection.
Press Ctrl+Shift+I and delete the outer area of the layer with multi color shapes.
Double click the text layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.
Apply a nice radial gradient in the background.
Reduce the opacity of multi color shapes layer to 60%.
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