Tutorial : Simple text effect in Photoshop

Tutorial : Simple text effect in Photoshop

Here is a tutorial on a text effect I recently used to make a poster. It's an easy one & everyone can do it. You need Adobe Photoshop any version (I used CS3)...

This is the final image..

The steps are as follows:

1. Open Adobe Photoshop and create a new file (Ctrl+N) with 1920X1080 pt. and 75 dpi resolution.

2. Download seamless textures, one for the background and some for the texts.

3. Click file---Place----select the texture---click OK.

4.  Press Enter.

5. Either use the texture as a pattern to fill up the background or you copy and paste the texture side by side to fill up the background. Select all the layers by holding shift and press Ctrl+E to merge the layers together.

6. Press T on your keyboard to activate the text option and write what ever you want.

7. Use the following settings for the text.

8. This is how it should look like.

9. Right click on the text layer and click on Rasterize Type.

10. Place the first texture for the first letter above the text layer.

11. Press W on your keyboard for the magic wand tool and click inside the first letter to select it. It should look something like the picture below. See the marching ants ??  that's the selection. 

12. Now press Ctrl+J, it should form a new layer with the shape of the letter you selected. 

13. Delete the layer below.

14. Follow the steps 10-13 for the rest of the letters and you should get something like the picture below.

15. Now lets add some depth to the text.

16. Select the layer containing the first letter (H in my case).

17. Double click on the layer to access layer styles and change the options as shown in the pictures.

[Drop Shadow--Blend Mode: Multiply, Opacity: 75%, Angle: 135, Use global light, Distance: 18px, Spread: 17px, Size: 18px.]

[Bevel & Emboss--Style:Inner Bevel, Technique: Smooth, Direction: Up, Size: 10px, Soften: 2px, Shading--Angle: 135, Altitude: 30, Highlight Mode: Screen(75), Shadow: Normal(75).

18. Once you are happy with the results, right click on the layer containing your first letter and click on copy layer style.

19. Now right click the next layer with the next letter and click Paste layer style and do this for the rest of the letters.

20. I wanted to add some glow to the O letter as it has the water texture, so applied the following settings to it. (Access the layer styles any time by double clicking any layer)

[Inner Glow--Blend mode: Screen, Opacity: 55%, Source:edge, Choke: 19%, Size: 24px.]

21. Now click on the text layer that you rasterized, remember? 

22. Go to Filter---Blur---Motion Blur and choose the settings as below.

[Angle: 45, Distance:39]

23. Once you have done that, copy the layer 3 times by pressing Ctrl+J and move each layer a little towards the right side using the arrow keys on your keyboard.

24. Use the following layer style options for the last text layer.

[Outer Glow--Blend Mode: Color Dodge, Opacity: 57%, Spread: 18%, Size: 51px]

25. That's it!! It's all done.

26. This is my final image. Want to know how I made the light rays?? Wait for the next tutorial...