Matrix Text Style Tutorial

By Syko/Syked One (c) This tutorial shows you how to get the funky Matrix text style. 1.) Start a new picture (File > New) of any size you want. Make the background black. Select the Type Tool and type something. I used the font 'Matrix'. You can download this font here. Use 72 as a text size. If you use an other size, you'll have to take other settings in the following filters and blending options. Name this layer 'text1'.

2.) Now duplicate the text layer (Layer > Duplicate Layer...). Name that layer 'text2'. Now rasterize the 'text1' layer (Layer > Rasterize > Layer). Do a Motion Blur filter on this layer (Filter > Blur > Motion Blur...). Use an Angle of 0 degrees, and a Distance of 150 pixels. Click OK.

3.) Now go to Hue/Saturation (CTRL+U) and check 'Colorize'. Use the following settings: Hue: 117 Saturation: 74 Lightness: -56 Now duplicate layer 'text1'.

4.) Go to the blending options of 'text2' layer and click on 'Inner Shadow' in the left menu, and use the settings as in the following picture:

5.) Now click on 'Stroke' in the left menu and use the settings as in this picture:

Congrats! You're done. Add a cool background for a better effect.

If you have used this tutorial in any of your creations, you can show them here.

Circular (Editable) Text: Simplified 1. To begin this tutorial, start a new document (I used 450 x 450). Select the 'Background Layer' in the Layers Palette, then hit 'Ctrl + R' to show the Ruler Bar's (If not already visible) Then drag a Horizontal and Vertical Guide from the Ruler Bar to meet at the center point of the new document. TIP: Make sure 'View/Snap' is turned on. Then drag the guides SLOWLY and you will notice that the guide will automatically find the center point of the document.(Applies only to the background layer and individual layers) Then with the 'Ellipse Tool (U)' and 'Paths' turned on in the 'Options Bar', draw a Path and position it to the center of your document, as I have captured to the right. (I also dragged an extra Guide to the top of the Path)

2. Next create a new folder 'Set' in the 'Layers Palette' for all the individual text letter layers. Give this 'Set' a name of 'Text'.

3. Next, Select the 'Type Tool (T)' from the Tool Bar and type the first letter you want to add to the circle. (Be sure these letters appear in your 'Set' labelled 'Text'.) Position the letter at the very top of the circle 'Path'.

4. Next, (A) turn on 'Show Bounding Box' option. Then, (B) then click (but don't transform yet!) on any of the four corner Bounding Box Anchor Points (Red Circle) and you should see the Transform options on the 'Options Bar'.

5. Now, look for the Center 'Reference Point Locator' as I have encircled in red. (This is a zoomed in shot)

6. Here's the crunch of this tutorial. Now click and drag that Center 'Reference Point Locator' to the center of your document , as I have captured.

7. Once thats done, mouse over the parameter of the text letter until you see the 'Rotate' handlers appear as I have captured.

8. Then drag to 'Rotate' in the direction and location as I have captured.

9. Repeat this process for each letter you want to rotate on the circle.(keeping each letter within the 'Text' Set of the Layers Palette.) So the finished circular text, does not appear in alignment. Do I have to start over? NO!

10. To align, (A) simply make sure 'Show Bounding Box' is turned on. Then (B) Select the 'Text' Set in the Layers Palette. Again (as in step 4/b) select any corner of the Bounding Box, then (as in step 6) drag the center 'Reference Point Locator' to the center of the document. Mouseover (as in step 7) the parameter of the Bounding Box until you see the 'Rotate' handlers, then (as in step 8) drag to rotate until your content with the alignment.

11. This is the final image. Advantage of using this method: the text is edit able. Disadvantage: using individual letters TIP: Hit Ctrl + H (key) to hide the original Path and Guides from view.

Easy 3D Text This tutorial was written on January 25, 2005 at 07:42:47 PM EST by hiddens3crets 1.) Create a new document. Size doesn't matter. I'm doing 300 x 300 pixels. 2.) Fill in the background with white 3.) Now type in any text you want. Your picture should look similar to this

4.) Now make sure you have the move tool selected

Now we'll make the 3d effect. 5.) Simply transfer between pressing the up arrow and the left arrow while holding ctrl + alt. This will create a new layer everytime you press the left / up arrow. Do it so you have about 20 layers. This depends on the size of your font of course. More or less layers may look better. This is what my image looks like now.

6.) Now click the eye ball on the original text layer and the background layer. Your pallet should look like this

7.) Hold down ctrl + shift and press e. Your pallet should have 3 layers in it now:

8.) Now switch your 3d layer with the original text layer so the original is the top layer:

9.) Select your top layer, hold down the ctrl button and click on the layer. This will make a selection around your text like so..

NOTE: right click on the top layer and select "Rasterize layer" 10.) Select the gradient tool from the toolbar and make sure that the gradient goes from black to white.

11.) Starting below your gradient, click and bring it up above at a slight angle as illustrated below:

12.) Press ctrl + d to deselect your text and you're done! This is my result:

This is what you will be making in this tutorial:

Open a new document, any size. Type what you want to be 3D on it. Then go to Edit>Transform>Skew and make it look like this.

Then duplicate the skewed text layer. Make the top text layer invisiable.

Hold ALT and hit the direction you want the text to go. I did down. Hit down around 10 times.

Make a new layer and place it here.

Then merge all the text layer,EXCEPT THE TOP ONE, into that layer.

Then hit Ctrl+U and add these settings to the layer you just merged.

Tutorials > 3D Make your fonts 3D!!! Find a place where you want your 3D-font... Then place your text (any font, any size) in any colour or style you like... (NOTE: NO OUTER STYLES LIKE STROKE, OUTER GLOW OR DROP SHADOW!!!)

Create a layer under your text-layer and merge them together, no transform the perspective like the picture below: Duplicate the perspective-text-layer and click the first layer and press "DOWN" 30 times!

 GOTO Filter>Render>Lightning Effects and make sure that the lower layer is a bit shadowed...

Click the lower layer and hold ALT and press "UP" as many times as you pressed "DOWN" 2 steps ago... (Wich is 30 times!)

 Merge ALL the text-layers together and now you can add a dropshadow and maybe change the hue...

Step 1: Create a new image in photoshop 88 x 31 , make the images background colour black . Step 2: Now create a new layer then go to , Filter > Artistic > Plastic wrap , and use the following settings as shown below:-

Step 3: Then go to Filter > Blur > Motion blur , and use the following settings as shown below:-

Step 4: When you have done this , you have completed the little laser bit of the button , but now you need to make the colour of the laser a yellow color , Press CTR+U On yout keyboard , and use the following settings as shown below:

Step 5: After doing the Hue/Saturation you should have something looking like this below

Step 6: Now add your text were ever you want it placing , after that select the laser layer and move it to the left handside aligned in the middle , now select the full image with the marquee tool edit > copy merged. and then open Imageready , and paste the image , now go back onto photoshop , select the laser layer , and move it a little bit to the right , select the image again , and copy merge , past into imageready , do this as many times as you wish until your laser go across half of your image , then when it reaches half way do the same back , make sure everytime you move the laser layer you copy merge the layer and paste it into imageready , When you have completed this task , in imageready go to the animations pallete , and click on the tool shown below:-

Final Image: When you have done that , you can now play your animation , if it looks ok . go to File > Save Optimized AS GIF. and then your button should look something like the following below:-

Army Text
Welcome to the Army Text tutorial This tutorial was designed to teach you how to add a military feel to your projects, it goes great with wallpapers and interfaces. If you need help with it, or find it confusing, don't hesitate to e-mail me, the information is at the bottom of the page.

document and type 1 Create a newthe center. Try to use any word in a font that resembles army text, I used Times set at 120 points with Faux Bold checked. right 2 Render the typeTlayer byright of clicking on the to the the layer and choosing Render Layer from the menu

3 Select the Airbrush (

Quick Tip!

) tool from the toolbar and set the painting mode to Dissolve at 40% pressure. Slowly stroke the sides of the letters with varying amounts to add a "fading out" look."> Of course the example to the left is just to show you how to this done, I don't expect you to be able to perform this task that fast. Just take it slow and apply this effect over the entire word in the same way.

If you have a graphics tablet with a pressure sensitive pen, you may want to take advantage of the Stylus options available in a lot of the paint tools' option palettes. Checking these boxes allows you to paint more realistically as it reacts to the pressure you apply on the tablet with your pen.

your text 4 Once you've airbrushed you text you could try and make look more realistic with on of the following methods: 1 ) Add a Noise filter, Filter>Noise>Add Noise 2 ) Stroke the text with a dark gray color, Edit>Stroke As you can see the text looks well went placed in front of combat material. You can also use this method for creating "beat up" or rusty text, it works great all around! The text to the left had a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer added to it to change it's coloring for temporary use with the background.

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a text effect like the one shown above.
Note When doing this tutorial make sure that you use a font that is skinny and not thick or bold. Fonts like Times New Roman and Century Gothic are often too thick. In this tutorial I've used the font Barbaric.

Text Effect: 1) Anyway What you want to do is take your text type tool(T on the keyboard or the "T" symbol on the tool pallete) and create some text on a previous signature (ctrl+o or File>Open). Make sure that hte signature has a mid gray- dark gray background, because if it is too light, the text effect doesn't work as well as it should. Also when you do text make sure that on the text tool options bar(near the top under the file/edit/image etc. bar) the anti-aliasing is set to sharp or crisp. Keep in mind, when using pixel fonts, set the anti aliasing to none.

In this picture the Text Tool is outlined in red on the tool palette(on the left) The signature that has been modded with text is in green. And the Text Tool Options Bar is outlined in blue. 2) Next on the layers pallete (f7 or window>layers) Near the bottom is a little symbol that resembles an f, click on that then it brings up a little window where you can choose a bunch of options from, click the one at the very top that says blending options.

3)Blending Options Window a-In the blending options window, the first one it brings up, Set the Fill Opacity to 0.

b-Now on the left hand side of the blending options click on drop shadow and use these settings:

The size can also be put anywhere from 5-10, I just used ten in my example, but 5 looks good too. c-Now click on the bevel and emboss one and use these settings:

Note, you can mess around with these settings depending on how large the text you are making. This can be done with all the settings as well, Especially Satin. d-Now go to Satin and use these settings, keep in mind that for the bigger text you are using, you can switch around the values 'till you think it looks fine.

e-Go to color overlay and double click the box with the color in it, near the bottom of the new window that pops up, put in 959595 for the hex value

Then use these settings:

f-Now finally go to the Gradient Overlay, set the blending mode from normal to overlay for the dropdown menu, and set the scale to 130 instead of 100 near the bottom, like so:

g-Now On the right side click "New Style" and in the thing you can name the new style we've made what ever you want. Check both boxes (make sure they both have check marks in them) then hit okay, now you have made a new style that you can use over and over again by just going to the top left of the blending options window and clicking styles. Make sure to save all your styles that you create Example of what you can make with this:

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Blast Text
Step 1. start off with a new 500x500 px document RBG color 72 Step 2. Next Write some text in the center of your screen with black text, now rasterize your layer right click then rasterize, now u should have somthing like below.

Steo 3. Now duplicate your text layer (Ctrl + J), now with your top layer selected goto Edit->Fill (settings Forground color,Multiply,Opacity 100%) make sure that your forground color is white. Step 4. Next goto Filter->Blur->Gaussian Blur (Settings 5.2 px), Next goto Filter->Distort->Polor Coordinates (settings polor to retangular), next goto Edit->Transform->Rotate 90 Cw, now goto Filter>Stylize->Wind (Settings defaults). Step 5. Now press (Shift + Ctrl + L), that change your Auto Levels, now invert your picture (Ctrl + I), next stylize your wind two more time Filter->Stylize>Wind, Next goto Edit->Transform->Rotate 90 ccw, goto Filter->Distort->Polor Coordinates (Rectangular to polar), now change your blending mode to "Hard Light", now colorize (Ctrl + Alt + U), now u should have come out with somthing like i did below.

This Tutorial will teach you how to blend your text into the background, So it looks like it was in the background all along!

This is a very simple tutorial, Not many steps for this one

1. Open a pre-made image in a .psd file that you want to blend your text into, best effect is to blend it into a background, not a render...but both are fine.

2. With your Image open Select your text, Make sure the text is a bulky text and isnt a thin type font.

3. With that done add your text onto your image. Make sure you typed it in black though!

4. Right click on your TEXT layer and select blending options.

5. With the text blending options up...Use these settings

6. Click "Bevel and Emboss" and put the "size" too 0

7. Click "Drop shadow" and put the opacity too 50%

8. Click Satin and put the opacity to 25%

9. Click "inner shadow" and use the defult settings

10. Click " Gradient Overlay" and use the defult settings

11. Click "Color Overlay" and use color D9D9D9

12. Click "stroke" make the color black "size" 1px and opacity 50%

13. Click ok and your done! Put the text layer under a color blend layer...And you should have your effect!

Tutorials > Bomb Create a cartoony bomb like the ones in Zelda: Windwaker Create a document, set a nice background and select with the Circular Marquee-Tool a circle;

Fill it with a desired color or gradient; (NOTE: I used dark-blue and black)

 Create a new layer, select the orb once more and goto SELECT>TRANSFORM SELECTION and set it to this:

Fill it with white on the new layer;

 Use the Circular Marquee-Tool to create a larger circle and press delete on the white-layer;

Lower the opacity (NOTE: You can also set it to "overlay" if you want a more realistic touch to it..);

 Create a small circle on a new layer on top of everything with the same gradient/color as the bomb;

Copy the layer and lower the original 30-60 pixels and make it black (NOTE: Press CTRL+U and lower the lightness);

 Select the move-tool and click the dark layer, press ALT+"arrow up" until you reach the other circle;

Draw with a 5 pixel-brush a brown wire coming from the bomb;

Add these layer-styles to it;

 There you have it... a bomb!

 Oh-no, it's gonna explode :P

Tutorials > Pimp my ride! PIMP MY RIDE! Many people requested this effect because they had many difficulties with it... The "real" problem, using the pen-tool, was sometimes the major error, but once you get the hang of it, this tutorial will be a piece of cake! 1st, the pen-tool! The pen-tool is the most detailed and precise tool there is. Unlike the polygonal-lasso tool, this tool DOES make curves when you want one! Experiment a little with the pen-tool before starting this tutorial to see how it works...

Let's get it started! I've chosen a picture of a silver Reneault Mgane; Now, get the pen-tool and start selecting everything you want to spray:

Right click with the pen-tool and click "make a selection" and press OK; Copy the selection and paste it into a new layer;

 Desaturate by pressing CTRL+U and make it black&white and add a gradient with the blending-mode to "multiply";

You can also add some vinile or a logo, new rims, a new hood, a spoiler and window tinting, but that is something you need to figure out yourself ;)

Chromage
This tutorial will show you how to make chrome effects that are as smooth as Craig David. There are a variety of different methods for making chrome. Here, we will make use of some new effects added in Photoshop 6 as well as a background image used as a relection map.

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In case you don't feel like scouring around for a background image, you may download the file I used in this tutorial. Any type of photo with clouds or water usually works well for making chrome, however I used a picture of skyscrapers. Make sure that your text or other object you wish to apply chrome effect to is solid black in color. Download Chromage File

Start by making sure your object layer is selected (Chrome in the example). Add a Bevel and Emboss effect by hitting the button. This adjustment will the apply the brightest white shine that will effect the top left edges of your object. Set your settings similar to what I have used (click the image to the left to see). It is important to pay attention to the Glass Contour setting. As you can see, I changed mine a little bit. Feel free to work your chrome-making mojo

on this one. If you decide later that you do not like the contour setting you made, you can always come back and change it.

While still in the Bevel and Emboss effect, click on the word Contour in the left menu to select it and display the additional Contour Options. Set your options similar to the way I have (see image). This effect allows subtle highlights to be added to the bottom edges of your object.

Next, click Satin effect in the left menu. This step is the most difficult, and dare I say thrilling, step of the whole process. Here you get apply the level of detail for the main chrome effect. You may click the image to the left to see all the settings I used. Modify the Contour via the Contour Editor to suite your particular metallic taste.

Now it is time to increase the effect by adding Inner Shadow and Inner Glow effects the same way you applied the last two steps. These two effects serve to darken your object and make the lighting effects even more realistic. My options for both effects can be seen by clicking the two images to the left.

Just incase you are not already tired of applying Layer Styles, we will apply two more. Click Drop Shadow and Outer Glow to add a nice dark shadow around your object. Like the last step, you can see my options by clicking the images to the left.

Looking at the the image, you could probably stop now with a fairly decent chrome object. We will continue, however to make it even better. Load your object layer (Chrome) as a selection by right-clicking it. Then go to the Channels Palette and create a new channel. Make sure white is the foreground color (it should be) and fill the selection by hitting Alt+Backspace. Hit Ctrl+A to select everything and go Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Blur by approximately 5 pixels. Hit Ctrl+D to deselect when you are done. We need to make the channel into an external file to be used as a displacement map, so right-click your new channel and select Duplicate Channel. Choose New under the Document menu. Save your file in a location where you remember it.

Go back to your original document. In the Layers Palette, drag the reflection image layer (Layer 1 in the example) above the object layer (Chrome). We need to add some extra white around the border of the image to produce a stronger distortion in the following step, so go Image>Canvas Size and increase the width and height by 20 pixels a piece. Grab the Paint Bucket Tool, select white as your foreground color, and fill in the new blank area (which will probably appear white) around your reflection image.

Blur the reflection image by going Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. I chose 4.5 pixels. Now, go Filter>Distort>Glass. Load the file you previously saved as the Texture. I used a Distortion of 16 and Smoothness of 5.

My object text was not pefectly aligned in the example, so I had to move the reflection image layer (Layer 1) around to make it properly align with the layer underneath. If you need to do this, lower the opacity of your top layer and move it with the Move Tool. It doesn't have to be perfectly aligned, but my example needed a little editing. Once that is done, make the opacity 100% again and Alt-click the border between the reflection image layer and object layer to make a clipping group. Double-click the name of the object layer in the Layers Palette to bring up our friend the Layer Style box. Check the box called Blend Interior Effects as a Group and uncheck Blend Clipped Layers as a Group. Apply this change and your image will get noticibly darker. Play with the opacity setting of the top layer until your image looks pleasing. I settled for 35% opacity.

Now your effect is essentially complete. At this point, it is a good idea to go back and tweak the numerous Layer Style settings on your object layer to make it look even better. I also added a blue background layer with lighting effects for dramatic effect. The chrome effect gets progressively better with larger resolution objects, but I would say the example looks pretty chromodelic.

Plastic Tabs
Create those smooth clear plastic buttons first seen on Apple.com.

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OK, start with a new image about 400x400 px with a white background. Start by creating a new layer and using the Rectangular Marquee draw a rectangle roughly the size of the picture opposite.

Click the Channels tab and create a New Channel. Fill the selection in with white. You can now deselect (CTRL +D). Now go to Filter > Blur >G aussian Blur and use a setting of about 3.5 Click OK. Next go to Image > Adjust > Levels and drag the two bottom triangles towards the center until the button looks nice and smooth (see image). Click OK when done. OK hold CTRL and click on the channel "Alpha 1" to select it. Click the Layers Tab. Do not lose the selection.

Now set your foreground color to: R:212 G:214 B:212 and the background to white, using the Linear Gradient tool (foreground to background), drag from top of the selection to the bottom, so it looks like what I have opposite. Now create a New Layer and set your foreground color to R:192 G:192 B:192 and go to Edit > Stoke for width choose 1 pixel and for location choose Center. Do not deselect yet.

Now, with the Rectangular Marquee selected, move the selection up to the top of the button so that it overlaps slightly (see picture). Now Create a new layer and fill that selection in with white. Now click on the Channels palette and Hold CTRL and click on "Alpha 1" to load the selection. Click the Layers tab and now go to Select > Inverse. Hit delete. press CTRL +D to deselect. Now go to Filter > Blur > Guassian Blur and use a setting of 0.3. Click OK and set the Opacity of that layer down to 74.

Now it should be looking good, but to add to the effect add a drop shadow to the layer with the original button shape on it (in my case Layer 1) go to Layer > Effects > Inner Shadow and use the settings shown opposite. That's it, you should have a nice plastic tab ready to add some text to.

So add some text to the buttons, you can also add a very faint drop shadow to the text for a nice effect. To change the color go to Image > Adjust > Hue/Saturation. If yours didn't work just download the .psd file.

Apply the same tutorial to other shapes, you'll get some neat effects. Click here to download the PSD file.

Ok guys THE FLAMING Effect tutorial is here!!!!!! Title :- The Flaming Effect Level :- Basic (I think so) So here we go :-Open Adobe photoshop -Choose white foreground and black background. -Create a new file in grayscale mode and choose 400 x 200 as the canvasg size. Choose the contents as Background colour :-

-Now type whatever u want to flame. In this case, I'll type my name "Ultimate Z Fighter" :-

-Now rasterise it using Layer>Rasterize>Type. -Create a duplicate of the layer Layer>Duplicate Layer. In the dialog box that appears,

choose the Destination as new. This will duplicate ur layer to a new document.

-Now, switch back to ur original document. Merge ur text layer with background layer by pressing CTRL+E -Go to Image>Rotate Canvas>90 degree CW. ur image will appear like this :-

- Now go to Filter>Stylize>Wind . Choose ur method as Wind and Direction from the Left. Click OK. Now, Press CTRL+F to repeat the filter. ur image will now appear like this :-

- Now go to Image>Rotate Canvas and choose 90 degree CCW. - Go to Filter>Stylize>Diffuse. Choose the mode as Normal and click OK. ur image will now look like this:-

- Choose Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Enter the radius as 2.0 pixels. -Go to image>mode and click on Indexed colour. Now again go to image>mode>colour table. Select Black Body.

- Go to Image>Mode and select RGB. ur image now:-

-Switch to the duplicated layer and duplicate it more by going to Layer>Duplicate Layer and choose the destination to the name of ur original document. The white text will appear at the same position as it was before. - Press D key to choose ur foreground colour as Black. And then Finally press SHIFT+ALT+BACKSPACE to fill ur text with black colour. DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The final image will appear like this :-

-Now u can merge the layers and add the text to ur previously made signatures. In this case I'm adding the text to a background along with a pic of Gohan-

This tutorial will show you how to design a futuristic and clean banner that works great in layouts. If you are looking for a nice, simple banner for a good layout, this is a great place to start! 1.When designing websites, it is important not to distract your viewers with flashy graphics everywhere. It is actually usually better if you keep your layout as clean and simple as possible to make navigation easy, content more accessible, and reading the content less distracting. Because of this, many sites try to make a simple banner, but still something that looks attractive. This tutorial will show you an example of how to make an attractive and simple banner for your own site! First, we need a foreground and a background color. I am going to use a light grey (#E1E1E1), and medium grey (#B2B2B2).

The color on top is the foreground color. Likewise, the one below is the background color. 2.Create a new document. Typically, designers try not to make banners to large, so we will make ours 400x100. In a real layout, your width will probably be much larger than this (700x100), but I will keep it smaller for loading purposes:

3.Select the gradient tool from the toolbar. You can get to the gradient tool by holding down on the Fill Tool, and selecting the button that fades from right to left (You can also press G for a shortcut):

The Gradient tool will blend multiple colors together depending on the users selection of colors. 4.In the top left corner of Photoshop, you should see a gradient editor. Click this once to bring up the gradient editor box:

5.When the box pops up, select the foreground to background gradient (typically the first gradient):

6.Click OK to close the box. While holding shift, Drag a line from the top of your document to the bottom of your document. By holding shift, you will create lines in 45 degree angles:

7.Create a new layer:

The new layer button lies to the left of the delete layer button (the trash can icon). 8.Select the Rectangular Marquee tool (M for shortcut):

9.Drag a selection around the bottom of your document:

10.Select your gradient tool again (G), and drag a line while holding shift from the bottom to the top of the selection:

11.Press Ctrl+D to deselect. Right click on this layer, and apply the following blending options:

Drop Shadow Settings

Bevel Settings Click OK

12.Select your Horizontal Type Tool (T):

The Horizontal Type tool lets you incorporate text in your documents. 13.Press anywhere in your document to start typing. Use the tool shown at the top of Photoshop to edit how your font looks:

14.Apply the following blending options to the text:

Bevel

Gradient Overlay

15.To add more to you banner but still keep it simple is very easy. Simply duplicate your text layers, enlarge the text, and change the color to a light grey:

That's it! Good Luck!

Tutorials > Cloud-Text See your writing in the clouds... Get out an image where you want to put your text in;

Add these blending-options to your text-layer;

 And you're done.. If you want you can also add a reflection...

MP3 Player Interface

Written by admin Tuesday, 18 January 2005

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tutorial should be fun, creating your own mp3 player! This tutorial could probably be used for anyone wanting to make a start on skinning, or maybe you just want to make an interface using an mp3 player style. Anyway, this is a slightly longer tutorial but I'm sure I'll get you there in the end!Start by creating new document, I created mine as 720x540 with a background of White and a background of Black.

First of all we need to get the shape of our mp3 player, so to start with we'll use something simple; our Rounded Rectangle Tool. Set the radius of the tool to 6 then draw yourself a nice sized rectangle on your screen. This is how big mine is:

Now we have our rectangle we can start properly, add a gradient overlay with the following settings:

*NOTE* The gradient I have used is not a default gradient, you will have to make it yourself with the following settings:

For those who don't know how to create a gradient, then you should read my Gradients Tutorial So now we have set the gradient, we need to set the following settings as well:

Now you should have something that looks like this:

Now we have the layout of the mp3 player we need to start adding it's features, so first we'll start by creating a screen for it. Select your rounded rectangle tool again but this time set the radius to 4 and make yourself a nice sized screen, this is how mine looks:

Set the following settings to it:

Again, this is a custom gradient, here is the colors I used:

Now add the rest of the settings:

Done this? Cool! - so you should have something like this:

Now we're going to add a shine to the screen, so CTRL+Click the shape so it's highlighted and create a new layer above the shape and name it shine. Now go to Select>Modify>Contract and set the contract to 2 Pixels. Your screen should look like this:

Grab your gradient tool and set the Foreground to Transparent gradient and make a gradient within the dotted line and you should end up with something like this:

Now press CTRL+D to deselect the layer. For those who have read my Shine tutorial you should know how to do this already - Anyway, use your Circular Marquee Tool and make a circle on your interface like this:

Now press delete, and you should end up with something like this:

This is starting to look good right? Now then, for the images for the screen of your mp3 player, these things can be tricky if you don't know what you're doing, so there's a font I found which does them for you - you will need to download the font which can be found here Once you have installed the fonts, you can start adding stuff to your screen, here's what I ended up with:

I only added a couple, I didn't want to over do the screen, you can add what you want though! now we have our screen completed we can start on some buttons, create a new shape using your Rounded Rectangle Tool and make the shape about this size:

Add the following settings:

Again the gradient is custom, I used the same gradient as before but I made the blue slightly darker. Now we have your button, we need to add another shine, CTRL+Click the layer to highlight it, create a new

layer above it then Select>Modify>Contract and again by 2 pixels, just like we did for the screen. We're using the exact same technique as before, for those who have done the glass shine tutorial, this bit should be a doddle! Again do the same as we did before and use the Circular Marquee Tool to cut out the bottom of the shine you should now have something like this:

Duplicate the layers so you have 3 buttons like I have below:

We're nearly done! Ok now we need to add some button signs, I chose to have play, pause and stop - you can add more buttons it's entirely up to you. Here's how mine is looking after I added some icons:

Now to add some finishing touches, highlight your original shape and create a new layer above it, then contract it by 2 Pixels It should look like this:

This time you need to do a gradient going up, like this:

Now press CTRL+D to deselect and bingo, you've got a nice mp3 player interface! Here's another one I made using the same technique,

Slicing
Written by admin Saturday, 22 January 2005

So this

this is the one you've all been waiting for? Well I've finally pulled myself around to doing it for you! In tutorial I will show you how to not only slice your layout but actually prepare your site, enabling you to simply upload your design after reading this tutorial. This tutorial is going to take a little bit of time but hopefully we should have some good results by the end of it. For this tutorial I will be using the webv2 tutorial layout. If you don't have this layout I suggest you read the tutorial then you'll have something to work with. Although I'm saying you should use that tutorial, slicing works in the same way so you could do it with any layout. As we're trying to be as simple as we can here, then it's best you use something we all have. Ok, lets get the ball rolling. First of all, when we're slicing a layout, what are we actually doing? Well that's easy, we're just cutting the images up allowing us to add content where we need to. Slicing also allows us to alter page load times, if the images are smaller they will load faster. Most modern layouts use CSS (cascading style sheets) these are a little more advanced so for this tutorial we will only use html tables. Let's get slicing! First of all you need to grab your slice tool, if you don't know where it is, It's shown below,

Now we have our slice tool selected we should make our first slice. NEVER leave any spaces between slices, this can cause chaos when coding the layout. I always start from the top of my layout and work down to the bottom. In my header I generally have 3 sliced images, logo, middle, and right, we will use the same technique here. Go ahead and use your slice tool, click and drag where you want the slice to go. here's how my slice looks,

As you can see, I started from the top corner and sliced my logo. Make sure you only slice your logo and not any of the navy, as this will complicate things later. Next we move on and make slice number 2, of our header image. I generally cut about half way, here's my second slice,

When you are aligning the slice with the first slice you made you should see it aligns automatically. So carry on and create number three, taking slicing away the rest of the header image. Here's how my header now looks, PREVIEW IMAGE If you go back to slice number 1 and right click this slice, click Edit Slice Options, you should see the following box appear,

If you apply those settings, it means when you click on the top logo, it will return you to the index.html Name This is the name of the image. URL This is where the image will take you if you click it. Target This defines weather you want it to load in the same window or somewhere else, _blank would make the page load another page etc. Message Text Whatever text goes in here will appear in the browser info bar along the bottom when hovered over. ALT Tag ALT tags are used for when you mouse over the image. The alt tag will display some text when you mouse over depending on what you put inside the alt tag. Moving on...Now we have our header all sliced we need to move onto the navigation. The navy can be a little more tricky but I'll see how well I can explain it for you. Basically the navigation will be sliced into buttons, so where you have a button, will be a slice. Anywhere we don't have a button (on the navy bar) will be another slice. Start by creating a small slice to the left of the navy, just before you reach the button, here is what I mean,

This is basically taking away the gap between the button. The reason I done this was, if that slice was part of the button, when you mouse over it, it would appear as a link, yet you are no where near the button. I don't think that made sense but it doesn't really matter, as long as you do it. Next we're going to slice our buttons, so go along the line and slice each button. Remember, leave no spaces between the slices.

That's my first slice, once you've sliced it, right click>Edit Slice Options and put your info in, here's my info,

Now move on and do the next slice,

Apply the same settings to it as we did the homepage, but change it about to say whatever, also make it link to about.html Go down the line and slice the whole navy until you get to the last button. Here's how mine looks, PREVIEW IMAGE See how I've left the last button? It's because we have that space at the end of the button, so as we did before, simply make a slice out of the blank space at the end of your button, like this,

Now we've sliced out blank bit we can go ahead and slice our button, just as we did before, Here's my complete navigation, PREVIEW IMAGE So now we've done out header and navy, that's the hardest part out of the way! Now all we've got to do is slice the content box and we can start coding our site. All we're going to do now is make a slice along the top on the content box. If you have a shine on like me, make sure you don't slice through the middle of the shine or it'll look pants when your site is online. Here's now mine looks, PREVIEW IMAGE Now we've done the top of the navy we do the bottom. Leave a small space between the bottom of the layout and the bottom slice, this is what I mean, PREVIEW IMAGE with the space you've left, make a slice out of it, like this,

PREVIEW IMAGE Why did I just make you do that? I'll explain later. Now we need to finish up our slicing by slicing the content box sides. For this we make one small slice and one big slice, I'll talk about why later. Here's the small slice, PREVIEW IMAGE Then for the rest of that side, slice it in like this, PREVIEW IMAGE That's one of our sides done, do the same technique on the other side, PREVIEW IMAGE Now we're basically complete, create one last slice in the middle of our content box like this, PREVIEW IMAGE Ok now we're done slicing. All we need to do is click File>Save For web and set the following settings, PREVIEW IMAGE Once you've done this, click save and it will ask you to chose a folder, name the file index.html and save it. That's all for slicing, it's pretty easy really. Now all we need to do is actually code the layout. If you click on your index.html it should load your sliced images up. Those who already know how to code layouts can now go on and make their website. Those who don't know how to code their websites should read my next tutorial, coding your website.

Creamy LCD Display

Step 1 First create a rounded rectangle with your rounded rectangle tool of size w=144 h=82 and fill with color=FFCF5A

Step 2 Then apply the following layer styles to the layer: Inner Shadow: color=black [view settings] Inner Glow: color=FF0000 [view settings] Bevel & Emboss: colors=default [view settings] Satin: color=715501 [view settings] [view curve] Gradient: foreground color= transparent background color=FF3000 [view settings] Stroke: color=black [view settings] When your done you should have something like this:

Step 3 Then add a small bump at the bottom of the of the lcd in a new layer with the color=FF6000. Select the layer transparency of the lcd layer then go back to the new layer. Apply a Gaussian Blur of about 1.0. Finally set the layer Opacity to 22% in your layer palette. When your done you should have something like this:

Step 4 Duplicate the small bump layer you just create then click "Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontally". Then click "Edit > Free Transform" and set the width (H) to 50%. Then move the layer to the far right corner of your lcd and set the layer opacity to 25%. When your done you should have something like this:

Step 5 Create a new layer folder/group and rename it "Glass" in your layer palette and create a new layer inside it and fill it with

color=white. Name this layer "Layer 13" for good luck. Select the layer transparency of your lcd layer and then invert the selection. Go back to your lcd folder, then to the new layer you created and delete the unwanted portions of white from it. Invert the selection again to regain it then Gaussian blur the white layer by about 15.0. Using your vector tool create a wave across the white layer that swoops down when up then starts swooping down again. Let the selected portion be the bottom part of the lcd. Then right click on the edge of the vector area and click "Make Selection". Then press delete on your keyboard. Select layer transparency of the lcd layer then go back to the white layer and blur by about 3.0. Set the layer opacity to about 31% in your layer palette. When your done you should have something like this:

Step 6 Select layer transparency of your lcd area again and create a new layer called "Layer 14" and fill it with white, remove the bottom portion of the layer so that the layer only cover about 120 pixels of your lcd area from the top down. Select layer transparency of your lcd layer again then blur your new layer by about 13.0. Select layer transparency of Layer 13 then invert the selection and delete the portions from "Layer 14". If the layer is bit to bright set the transparency to as low a desired, I've set mine to about 92%. When your done you should have something not too far from this:

Step 7 Create a new layer called "Layer 15". Select layer transparency of your lcd layer, invert the selection then delete the unwanted portions from Layer 15. Invert the selection again to regain it, then move it down by one pixel and click delete on your keyboard to create a thin white line in the shape of your lcd. Make your you deselect any selections you have then Gaussian blur the layer by 1.0. Move the layer down by 6 pixels. Duplicate the layer to create "Layer 15 copy" and move this new layer down by 1 pixel. When your done you should have something like this:

Step 8 I noticed that the right and bottom parts of the display are a bit bright and may need some darkness to them so create a new layer called "Layer 16" and fill it with black. Select layer transparency of your lcd layer, invert the selection and remove the unwanted portions of Layer 16. Invert the selection again to regain it, then move the selection up by 2 pixels and to the left by 2 pixels then delete this area leaving a 2 pixel black area just within the lcd region. Select layer transparency of your lcd layer then go back to layer 16 and blur to your desired of darkness. When I was done I had something like this:

Step 9 Create a new layer called "Layer 17" and redo you steps like Step 8 but this time use a lesser blur and adjust the layer opacity until you get the desired look. When I was done I had something like this:

Step 10 Some airbrushing skill is needed now and if you have a drawing tablet then your in luck if not you'd have to use your blur tool or Gaussian blur until you get the look desired. Your going to add a bit of white to the top right corner of you display but its going to be very faint and the edges of it must not be visible at all. When I was done I had something like this when you place the airbrushed "Layer 18" over a black layer by itself: [view image] Then I set the transparency of my layer to about 50% and I had something like this:

Step 11 Create a new layer called "Layer 19" then create a white-to-transparent gradient from the boom left corner of the lcd area with a length of about 60 pixels diagonally towards the top right corner of the lcd. Set the layer opacity to about 45%. You can also blur it by about 1 or 2 pixels to smoothen it out a bit if you want. If you want to see this layer against a black background so you can see how it looks at 100% opacity then look here: [view image] When your done you should have something like this:

Step 12 Create a new layer called "Layer 20" then with your vector tool create a bump at the bottom of your lcd area and fill the area with white. Gaussian blur this layer by about 2.0 and set the opacity to 36% and you should have something like this:

Step 13 Finally add some airbrushed layers to the bottom right and left corners of the lcd area and another line like "Layer 15" but at the

bottom this time and your done. When your done you should have something like this:

Software : Photoshop and Fireworks Hi everybody, my name's Fred. There are some members who are asking how I did my avatar and signature, so I'm posting my first tutorial (on my Avatar ) to share my experience, although I know that to some (or most), this is very basic. I got the inspiration from Emory and asked him a couple of questions on how to create animated GIF's. So here it is, please bear with me here is the output

Let's start with the image itself. It is done with Photoshop 7. The font for the F is Terminator font and the A is Tolkien font. :1: Open a new image: size 100x100, resolution of 72, and white background. :2: Insert your text. I did my F and A as two separate layers so I can move them around. Both are color white (so I guess you won't be able to see it :3: We are going to apply Layer styles to both texts. As you can see, I applied a Drop Shadow and Bevel and Emboss(checking on Contour). .

:4: Under the Drop Shadow options, set the structure angle to 90 degrees. This will make the shadow equal on both sides and at the bottom. Result is on the image below (text [1]) Now for the chrome like shading. :5: Click on Bevel and Emboss (not the Contour). Under shading, Set the angle to 90 degrees again. :6: Change the Gloss Contour to the one in the image that is highlighted in red (Cone - inverted). You can move the layers (or transform it) so that it fits the 100x100. Don't forget to flatten the layers and save as JPG.

In PS 7, to flatten the image: LAYER --> Flatten Image or you can Merge Visible (Shift+Ctrl+E). Now to prepare for the Animation. :1: Make 6 copies of the JPG and rename them accordingly (like pic1, pic2,.., pic6). pic 1 will be the one untouched. The number of copies depend on the length of the animation or how smooth you want the animation to be. It's like playing frame by frame on Swish Since the limit to the avatar file size is 20kb, I limited it to just 6 (a result of trial and error, my friends ).

I wanted to give my image a "chrome-glint" feel so we render the images one by one. :2: Starting with pic 2, Render with Lens flare:

I used the 105mm Prime lens type. Unlike the other two, this flare is mostly white glare. (above image, text [3]) :3: Apply rendering to pics 3 - 6. I imagined how my images would look like frame by frame so I applied the rendering to pics 2 to 6, moving the flare to the right. I also increased the flare brightness in pic4 and decreased it as I went to pics 5 and 6 (fading glint effect :4: Save images. -----Whew! Ok, this is almost done. with it. For creating the animation, I used Fireworks MX. This is my first time to use it so I kinda fumbled around ).

:1: Open a new file, and set the size to 100x100 since this is the size of your images. You will see at the bottom part of Fireworks, there is a window where the layers are. Currently there is layer 1. This layer is empty. Pressing Ctrl-R will bring you to the import window. Select pic1. :2: Add layers (a total of 6) like in the image below. Import a pic to each layer by clicking the layer and pressing Ctrl-R <-- Import (i.e. pic2 ---> layer 2, pic3 ---> layer3, and so). [inner image]

Also, when you add layers, the main image window will now show a play button (in red) so you can view the animation. :3: FILE --> EXPORT PREVIEW. Change the image format to Animated GIF. You can also change the Animation speed in the Animation panel. Click on Export.

Drop shadow
Drop shadow is one of the most used effects to get a "3D look" The easiest way to create a drop shadow is to use the layer effects. Use the default settings and you're done.

If you don't have Photoshop 5 or later you have to do this manually... Here's how to do that: Write the text with black and render the layer. Mark the content and save the selection. Deselect and apply Filter/Blur Gaussian blur with 4-5 pixels. Add a new layer and load the selection you saved before. Fill it with desired colour. Move the content up/left and you're done! The main advantage with this technique, is that you have the possibility to edit your dropshadow. Take a look att the picture below and you'll see what I mean.

Easy Jell Buttons

Step 1 First create the shape of the button that you want to make the jell button from, whether it be a circular or like my shape I have below. This tutorial is not recommended if your button is much wider than it is high. Fill the area with a color=F7C718 . I used the color red just so you can see the edges clearly in this screenshot but the real color is yellow.

Step 2 Next add a soft inner shadow. Inner shadow: color=black [view settings] When your done you should have something like this, I added black to the background so you can see the edges clearly:

Step 3 Next right-click on the thumbnail of your jell layer and click "Select Layer Transparency". Set your foreground color to white in your toolbar. Then set your tool to gradient by right-clicking on the paint bucket Photoshop would create a gradient called "Foreground to Transparent" and choosing the gradient tool . By default

Step 4 Create a new layer with your selection still intact and fill with the gradient tool from the top-left most corner of your jell to the the bottom-right corner. To end, deselect the selection.

You should have something like this:

Step 5 With the new layer you just created, click "Edit > Free Transform". Then click the "Maintain aspect ration" button and set the width of the layer to 70%. Automatically the height would adjust to the same value. Move the layer up by one pixel and left by one pixel. When your done you should have something like this:

Step 6 What's the use of having a jell button if you don't make use of it so put and icon under your white layer and add put an inset behind the jell and you should have something like this.

How to Create Elevated Type in Photoshop

Create elevated type complete with reflections.

1.

First create a new document by pressing Ctrl+N. I set the dimensions 200 by 150 pixels, and the contents transparent for this tutorial, but feel free to change the dimensions according to your needs.

2.

Set the foreground color to light gray. You can use the swatches palette ( Window

> Show Swatches) for quick color picking. Then press Shift+F5, and click OK
to fill the workspace with the foreground color.

3.

Change the foreground color to a slightly darker light gray. Select the type tool by pressing T. Click on the workspace and type something. Look at the Layers palette. Right click on the T icon displayed on the text layer, and select Render Layer from the pop-up menu to convert this layer into a normal layer. If you are using Photoshop 6.0, the palette will look slightly different: right click on the layer, and choose Rasterize from the pop-up menu to convert it.

4.

Drag the layer to the new layer icon ( ) found at the bottom of the Layers palette to duplicate the layer. The newly created layer's name should be elevated copy (or 'whatever you wrote' copy). Click on layer elevated (not copy), and then Ctrl+Click on the layer to select the layer transparency. Set the foreground color to a medium shade of gray. Press Shift+F5 to bring up the Fill dialog box, and click on Ok to fill the selection with the foreground color. Now press Ctrl+D to deselect the selection, and select Edit > Stroke. Use these settings:

Width: 5 Location: Center Blending: 100% Mode: Normal

You can increase the value of the width field if your type is big. The value of 5 pixels used here is ideal for a 48 point type at 72 DPI. 5. Select the Move tool by pressing V. Use the cursor keys to move the dark-gray area until it looks like the figure on the left. As you see, the area we have just moved will be the elevation.

6.

Select the marquee tool by pressing M. Click on layer elevated copy to select it. Then Ctrl+Click on the layer to select its transparency. Use the cursor keys to move the selection 2 pixels to up-left of its original position (press the left and

up cursors keys twice). Now, Ctrl+Alt click on the layer to subtract this selection
from the original one. Move back the subtracted selection to its original place. This time use the right and down keys twice. Set the foreground color to white, and press Shift+F5 to bring the Fill dialog; click on OK. Our highlights are done now. You can stop at this step, and use the resulting type as is. But if you want to have a more 3-D looking type complete with reflections, continue reading.

7.

Ctrl+Click on layer elevated to select its transparency, and use Select > Save

Selection to save the selection to a channel. Click on the Channels tab to open
up the Channels palette, and click on the newly created Alpha 1 channel to select it. Now press Ctrl+D to deselect the selection, and use Filter > Blur >

Gaussian Blur with a radius of 2.0 pixels. This channel will be our texture
channel in the following step.

8.

Click on the Layers tab to go back to the Layers palette, and select layer elevated by clicking on it. Now select Filter > Render > Lighting Effects. Change the light type to Directional, and the Texture Channel to Alpha 1. Set the Height slider to 20. Finally change the angle of light as shown in the figure below. Click on Ok when done.

9.

Press Ctrl+M to bring up the Curves dialog box, and change the straight line to the curve shown in the figure below. This will create nice reflections on the elevation. Click on Ok when done.

10. Duplicate layer elevated as we did before. A new layer named elevated copy 2 will be created. Click on layer elevated which should be located above Layer 1, and Ctrl+Click to select its transparency. Set the foreground color to black, and once again press Shift+F5 to fill the inside of the selection. Now press Ctrl+D to deselect the selection, and use Edit > Stroke with the following settings:

Width: 2 Location: Center Blending: 100% Mode: Normal

This will create a nice outline that will increase the contrast between the type and the background. You can skip this step if you wish, but the outline usually increases the illusion of depth. 11. Here comes the fun part. Press Ctrl+U to bring up the Hue/Saturation dialog box, check the Colorize checkbox, and play with the sliders to colorize both elevated copy layers. If you wish you can merge these layers first, and assign the same color to both layers.

Here is an example with light, drop shadows, and a background texture. There are a lot of possibilities with this effect, but don't overuse drop shadows; use subtle shadows where possible. Also use dark blue shadows on blue backgrounds, dark green shadows on green backgrounds, etc. to get more realistic results. Other things to try that comes to my mind are cast shadows, and the Spherize filter. Finally, if you wonder how the background texture on the left was done, see our multi-layer textures tutorial.

Tutorials > Xtreme Layout Make a Website-layout! This tutorial will teach you how to create a website-layout, the MickM-way! Is this tutorial too hard, but you want to have the layout? Download it here! First start out with a document of 800x600. I always choose for 800x600, because there are still A LOT of people out there who have 800x600. It is better to let you site be viewable for every user then for a select group. Fill it with the color #CCCCCC, and create a header-shape with the "Rounded Retangle-Tool"; Right-click and select "Make a selection"; Fill it with black;

Add these layer-styles to it;

 It should look like this;

Add some nice props to the header;

Create a smaller shape with the "Rounded Retangle-Tool";

Give it this layer-style;

Create an even smaller rounded retangle and fill it with a gradient (I used a purple one);

 Add this style to it;

You can add some props to the actual header;

Create a rounded retangle beneath the header (NOTE: Make is small, but not too small - remember, you need to fill this with text later);

Give it the same layer-style as with the first retangle (NOTE: Just repeat those layer-styles on this retangle);

You can choose if you want to add some props to it, if you want...

 Now for the main-window, create a rounded retangle again at the same way as you did before. (NOTE: Make it big enough for a lot of text and images - I would choose a minimum of 300 pixels high);

Add the same layer-styles to is as the first retangle (NOTE: Just repeat those layer-styles on this retangle);

Again, add some nice lookin' props to it;

Then add a smaller black retangle inside the content-box;

Give it this layer-style;

 Again, add an even smaller white retangle to the black retangle (Can you still follow it? :P)

Give it this layer-style;

And you're done! If you found this too hard but still want the template, download it here!

You've probably seen effects like this a lot, so after a long time of figuring out how to get it just right, I've decided to make a tutorial for it. I know it isn't really an explosion, but I couldn't think of a more correct name for it. <_<;; Note: This tutorial gets an difficulty level of "Intermediate" because of its length, and because some steps near the end may take a few tries. 1. Start off with your image. The image can really be anything, but the effect works best with text.

2. Duplicate the layer with the image. 3. With the top layer selected, go to Filter -> Distort -> Polar Coordinates. Change the settings to "Polar to Rectangle".

4. Rotate the canvas 90 CW. 5. Go to Filter -> Stylize -> Wind. Set the Method to "Wind" and the Direction to "From the Right". Press Ctrl-F one or two more times. Now go to Filter -> Stylize -> Wind again. This time change "From the Right" to "From the Left". Press Ctrl-F one time. Go to Filter -> Stylize -> Wind one more time, and change "From the Left" back to F"rom the Right".

6. Rotate the canvas 90 CCW. 7. Go to Filter -> Distort -> Polar Coordinates. This time set it to "Rectangle to Polar".

8. Move the top layer, below the original image layer. 9. With the "exploding" layer selected, go to Filter -> Blur -> Radial Blur. Set the Amount to 100, the Blur Method to "Zoom", and the Quality to "Best".

10. Darken the top image layer. You can do this a number of ways. One way is to press Ctrl-U (Image -> Adjustments -> Hue/Saturation) and move the Lightness down. If you are working with white text, then just invert it or change the color to black.

11. Make a new layer, colored all red and set the Blend Mode to Color.

12. Press Ctrl-U (Image -> Adjustments -> Hue/Saturation). Check off the box that says Colorize.

13. Duplicate the color layer. 14. Press Ctrl-B (Image -> Adjustments -> Color Balance). Use the following settings:

Midtones

Shadows Highlights
15. For now, hide the top layer. 16. Press Ctrl-B again on the bottom color layer. Use these settings:

Midtones Shadows Highlights

17. Make a new layer, all red and the blend mode on Color. On this layer click Ctrl-B. Set the Midtone, Shadow and Highlights all to [0, 0, -100]. 18. With the eraser selected, select this brush:

19. Starting on the top color layer, click somewhere over the explosion and drag a few pixels out. Repeat this several times. If you have any strange choppy areas, use the blur or the smudge tool to fix it. 20. Do the same as above on the middle color layer. Now you have a nice feiry look.

Now you can leave it like this, or do other things with the perspective and stuff. Check out some of my text tutorials to learn about that. If you like you can even take the black layer off.

Tutorials > Fable Text Create the shiney Text just like the logo from the RPG Fable... Create a document with some text;

Add the following blending-modes to it;

 And then the result should look like this:

Fire Text Effect

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Okay first of all make a white text on a black background. I am going to use this one right here.

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Now this part gets tricky. First of all, go to FILTER > STYLIZE > WIND and then apply the wind filter. And go to IMAGE > ROTATE CANVAS and rotate your image 90 degree's CW. And then apply the wind filter again. You might want to apply the filter in the same direction twice.

3
Now rotate it again until you get all 4 directions of your image with the wind filter.

4
I know it looks messy so try erasing the smudge that gets created around the border of the canvas. Make a new filter after that. Now get the paintbrush tool and then draw lines on top of the typography like the image on the left here.

5
Now with your new created lines, blur it using FILTER > BLUR > MOTION BLUR until the line is like what you see here.

6
And then go to FILTER > DISTORT > RIPPLE. You should control the ripple to a point where it looks like flames rising.

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Now go to IMAGE > MODE > GRAYSCALE and discard color information. And then go to IMAGE > MODE > INDEX COLOR and apply it. Then go to IMAGE > MODE > COLOR TABLE. And then from the drop down menu choose "BLACK BODY", and click okay. You should get this color here.

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And then change it back to RGB mode (IMAGE > MODE > RGB COLOR). And then type the exact same thing over again with the same font and font size. That's it. It's not that hard

Flare Text Effect

1
First off, we're going to start by creating the flare effect first. Now what's a flare? Flare is a ring of flame that I was inspired by the game Final Fantasy and I applied it on text to make a realistic flame looking effect. As everyone knows from my fire text effect tutorial, I have been doing many many experiments in making organic looking flames for the past 4 years. Of course, I've done many things besides flames but it's always been an effect I been visiting for years. Lets create a new document. 5 x 5 inches is good.

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Now on the document, make a circle with the circle marquee tool and color it in white, and then while the marquee tool is still going, (don't deselect), make a new layer and color it in black so the circle stays the same size. Afterwards, change the size a little bit using the FREE TRANSFORM tool (CTRL + T for windows, COMMAND + T for macs) and resize it down just a bit. Then nudge the shape a bit so you make a crescent shape like you see here. After this is done, MERGE the two circle layers together.

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Now we're going to RADIAL BLUR this crescent. Go to FILTER > BLUR > RADIAL BLUR and then apply the same settings like u see here. Now, if your circle is kind of small, you might have to lower your amount of radial blur. Just play around with it till it looks fairly blurred but not too much. Now we are going to apply a motion blur on it. Go to FILTER > BLUR > MOTION BLUR. Now just like you see it on the 2nd image of section 3, apply a distance of only 7 pixels on 0 degree angle.

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Now apply a GAUSSIAN BLUR. Go to FILTER > BLUR > GAUSSIAN BLUR. Blur it about .5 pixels.

After that part is over, your crescent should look like what you see on the left. Now make a DUPLICATE LAYER of the crescent and apply a layer blending of SCREEN. And then you want to apply the motion blur.

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Now rotate your flare using the FREE TRANSFORM while holding down the shift key. This should contrait your rotation amount in steps. Rotate it two steps to make it look like the image you see on the left. Now your flare should look real fuzzy but have some good definite high contrast in the middle portion of it. Now you can merge the duplicate layer and the original together now.

Now do the following:

Go to IMAGE > MODE > GREYSCALE and turn your document into GREYSCALE mode. This will ask you if you want to flatten the layers. Click on FLATTEN. (Remember to save your document as a .PSD file before you flatten it if you would like your file to be in seperate layers still). And then go to IMAGE > MODE > INDEX COLOR. If a message box prompts you, say yes FLATTEN IMAGE. But it shouldn't do this.

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Go to IMAGE > MODE > COLOR TABLE, and then this screen should show up. On the dropdown box, choose BLACK BODY and click okay.

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This should be your final result. Nice and clean isn't it? Time to add typographic elements.

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Now make a whole new document, make a type layer with your choice of words and fonts. Serif fonts like TIMES and GARAMOND works best but I could be wrong so experiment with it. Make the type fairly large, and then RASTERIZE the layer. (LAYER > RASTERIZE > TYPE).

After that is complete, make a duplicate layer of your type.

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On the very top layer of your document (which should be your duplicate layer) apply a motion blur so it's not TOO MUCH but not too less. Around 20 30 pixels usually work best.

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Make another duplicate layer again. Make sure it's on top of the original type layer and then apply MOTION BLUR again.

But this time, apply it with an ANGLE of 90 degrees.

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This is what your type should look like. Or if anything something close to that.

Now go to IMAGE > MODE > GREYSCALE, flatten the document, and then change the MODE to INDEX again. Then apply the COLOR TABLE effect of BLACK BODY once again.

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This is what it should look like. If not you did something wrong. After this, SELECT > ALL and then COPY AND PASTE to make a new layer with this text on the layer.

Or u can just easily duplicate the background or layer.

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Now you have two layers on your document, go to FILTER > BLUR > GAUSSIAN BLUR and then apply a blur of about 1.6 pixels - 2.5 pixels. And then apply a layer blending mode of MULTIPLY. Look at the images to see if you are in the right place.

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Now go to your HUE/SATURATION control (CTRL + U, COMMAND + U for macs) and apply your text the same kind of color as your flare resembles.

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Now you're going to want to CUT and PASTE your flare you made on a seperate document and apply a layer blending mode of SCREEN or HARD LIGHT. Try different ones to see which works best. Layout all your flares all over your text (not too much) and make sure you rotate it around so it's not consistant.

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Adding GAUSSIAN BLUR of your flares may add some good smooth looking fames on your text after you pasted it on your text. Integrating the flare with your text is where your creativity takes over.

my final result :)

Fire/Electricity Text
Written by admin Monday, 06 December 2004

Create this fire/electricity text effect. 1) Create a new document, any size doesn't matter. make sure that the background is BLACK.

3) Apply a BOLD "white" text into your layer. I used WebDogPro as an example

2) Next step would be to use multiple "wind" effects

Filter > Stylize > Wind

your first wind effect should be from the left and another from the right

Filter Wind1: From the Left, Filter Wind2: From the Right

3) Repeat STEP 2 once more, this will give a nice fading effect

4) Now rotate the canvas 90 degrees clock wise Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CW

And again apply the wind effects

Filter Wind1: From the Left, Filter Wind2: From the Right

Rotate your canvas back to its normal state 90 degrees CCW

5) Convert the image to Grayscale, then again convert the image to indexed colors

Image > Mode > greyscale,

Image > Mode > Indexed color 6)now modify the color table to your needs

Image > Mode > Color Table

You can edit this color table to your liking, the default color table looks pretty neat, but strains the eyes a but :D, so I made a blue color table shown below

DEFUALT table

My custom BLUE table

1) Open up a 500x500 document and create a new layer, select the marquee rectangle tool and select a selection that looks like this.

2) Select the gradient tool and start from the top to the bottom in the selection box with these colors

3) With the eraser tool, select the 'mode' as Pencil and choose the pencil tool for 1 pixel. Start to erase parts of the image evenly so you have boxes to work with.

3) Right click on the layer on the layers panel and click on the blending options. Use these options

4) After you're done that, your picture should look like this

5) Now you have to select a color, you can either CTRL + U and change the bars around or goto Image -> Adjustment -> Color Balance With some other details I added, this is what I have.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make an image like this:

You will be expected to know:

How to make a new document How to make a new layer

How to change a layer blend mode

How to create text

Please note that this was written on a Windows machine and so Mac shortcuts will not be used. I will probably update it later to include them. I used Photoshop 7.0 for this tutorial, I don't know if it will work in versions 6 and lower (Though if someone could tell me I would be very grateful). I have used this effect often in images where you need a ghostly/spooky feel. Please enjoy! The Tutorial: 1)Start off by making a document any size, though I will be using 600x100. 2) Make sure that your colors are rest to black and white by pressing 'D' on your keyboard. 3) Hold down 'Alt' and push 'Backspace'. This will fill the background with black. 4) Ok, now push 'X' to switch white to your foreground color. 5) Make some text! In this tutorial, I used 72pt Times New Roman. A font like Times New Roman (Garamond, or any other serif font) looks the best. Type "Ghost? Text" and position it in the middle of the image. 6) Now we get into the filters! Go to Filter> Brush Strokes> Spatter. It will ask you if you want to rasterize the text, click yes. Use these values:

7) Ugh, that's pretty jagged and ugly. Which is why you now go to Filter> Artistic> Cutout, using these values:

8) Set the layer's blending mode to screen, and then duplicate the layer. 9) On the new, duplicated layer, select the smudge tool: 10) Then, up in the brush picker, select a grungy brush, and set the rest of the smudge settings like so:

11) Now, start smudging from the bottom of each character to the top, making a smoke-like effect. Do this for each character. Wahoo, you now have ghost text! Since the blend mode is set to screen, you can put this in any image you want (If it's dark, that is). Have fun with this tutorial and I would love to see your results! -Wilson

TUTORIAL HOW TO An in-depth look

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MAKE A photoshop's most

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LOOKING bevel and

FONT emboss.

created on 04.04.2004 - updated 16.04.2004: added tips and more sample images

Hi, I'm back, I've still got more in my photoshop goodie bag. This time, we put attention on one of the most abused photoshop filters of all time, bevel & emboss. We'll focus on making use of the effect in a different fashion to get a glass effect out of it. There are similar tutorials like this, but we'll go more into detail to teach you what is going on. You'll need Photoshop 7 or higher. This is the resulting image of my tutorial:

I just happened to add some water for an extra twist. The only bad thing is it doesn't look exactly like water, but you'll just have to ignore that part :) Tip: Try to avoid using complex effects if you don't know what you are doing. Simple designs are most of the time easier on the eye, and complex designs may look just plain amateur if you aren't a good designer. Also, try not to use photoshop effects using the default settings, because one can recognize them a mile away and it is distracting. Always play with the settings and create your own style library. Now let's start by opening a new document, and type something in with a roundy and bold font, color is not important, we won't be using it. My image is 900x300 at 100 pixel/inch, and the type size is 90 points. Try to keep about the same sizes with me, as the values in the effects tab are not resolution based, but they work in pixels. This way you'll run into less problems while learning from the tutorial. Round and bold fonts will have more predictable results with the way we'll use bevel and emboss.

Once you find a font to your liking, add a bevel and emboss effects layer to our fonts layer.

Now set the bevel parameters accordingly. Change style to emboss, uncheck global light which would normally help you keep and modify all effect lighting settings of your documents, but this time we won't be needing it as our settings should not later be accidentally changed due to changing other effect settings in future, turn the highlight and shadow mode to normal. I set the colors like in the picture, you may opt for different hues ofcourse. Angle and altitude settings play a vital role and this time I'll keep them at the default values to show you how bevel and emboss works. These and other settings will be discussed later.

We changed the Highlight and Shadow Modes to Normal because we'll later use their color straight over the background without combining the color using screen (underneath colors gets lighter with lighter colors on top) and multiply (underneath colors gets darker with darker colors on top). The emboss mode puts the bevel and emboss effect both inside and outside the source layer, that is our font layer in this example. So it is like inner and outer bevel combined. Tip: Always feel free to change colors after you have set the base colors using hue & saturation adjustment layers or color balance layers.. In fact, the hue's of your base colors doesn't matter much as you can change the hue's with adjustment layers later. When I am experimenting, I just pick some random colors (relatively concordant, tho) and after I get the shapes ready, I modify or fine-tune the colors using hue adjustment layers. The following part in the yellow box is an Hesidoic(!) explanation to how the contour editor works, you don't need to follow it to complete the tutorial. Just skip the yellow box if you already know how it works or don't have the time. To learn about how the Contour Editor works, we'll first have to double-click the Gloss Contour box to open it up. Contour editor is the heart of our effect.

The middle of the line tells what color the middle parts of the layer with the effects will be, and at input:50 and output:50 which is the default, it will create a see-through part in our effect (this part is neither shadowed nor highlighted). Now you'll see white because our font is white. The left side of the line defines the color of the shadowed parts (away from light source), and the right side of the line defines the color of the highlighted parts (close to light source). I chose these colors for you to think more mathematically than literally.

Now to see how this comes down to play, add a control point by clicking right in the middle, and shift it to right a little:

Now we see 2 main changes: a) The middle of the curve vertically shifted down. The horizontal middle of the graph represents the middle (neither highlighted, nor shadowed) region of the layer. It used to be the see-through color but now it picks up some color from the shadow color we set.

b) The middle of the curve horizontally shifted right, so the see-through color (which was white, our font's color) ran into the "highlighted section", now we see it along with the highlight blur color we set earlier. The colors which I chose to show you may look inappropriate, but that's to make you think and learn! Now you may cancel any changes you have made, and go back to the normal tutorial. Now that we have set the basics, it is time to experiment! We will not need the visibility of the font layer, so we'll simply reduce the layer's fill value to "0".

You see the visibility of the layer is gone, but the effects visibility that is tied to the layer is there to stay. This is what "fill" does if you were wondering! Now we'll set the basis of our effect:

Increase the depth to about 140% so we'll have sharper lighting, and adjust the size so that the effect looks bold, yet we should still have that see-through (the see-through is black simply because we turned off the visibility of the font layer). Here in this example and in a font about this big (90 points in 100 pixels per inch), I upped the size to 8 pixels. Double click the Gloss Contour box to open up the editor, and make your curve look about like this:

Hmm, now we're getting somewhere. The left half of the curve represents the shadowed parts, and the right half represents the highlighted parts (with respect to the lighting angle). Points close to bottom will yield the color we set for the shadow mode, points close to horizontal middle will yield the see-through color (which is black) and points close to top will yield the color we set for the highlight mode. I kept the middle of the curve at 50 input, 50 output. You may want to check the explanations in the yellow box if you don't understand how this curve creates such an effect. Do not mind the jagged pixels, we may have to deal with them after we play with the lighting angle, which changes the effect to a great extent. Now, go wild with the lighting angle, try everything and choose something that pleases your eye.

I've already tried lots, and decided this is good for the look I want:

At this altitude settings (with the light almost close to being at the top (when altitude is 90, the light is looking at the layer from the top), the emboss style for bevel and emboss creates two levels of emboss, at the price of one :) I'll choose this kind of look for the glassy feel, you may go for other lighting angles with different depth and size settings. At this altitude Below shows the effect of different depth settings.

Tip: Playing with these settings, especially the mapping, you can get lots of cool metal effects. Try metal effects with the text layer visible (fill >0). We adjusted the depth to our liking (140%), let's see how our font is doing:

Looking like glass already. The readibility is a bit low tho, we'll add an extra white bevel and a tiny outer glow to fix that, and enhance the glass look later. To do a second bevel to the same layer and to put some water inside, we'll have to create layers from our effect:

Your layers tab should be looking like in the below, now it has 2 extra and seperate layers that creates the bevel emboss effect (Both of them should have 100% opacity and fill if you have kept my the tutorial, if not, pump them up to 100%. Our original layer with the font should keep its 0% fill.

Now, to the font layer, we'll add another bevel and emboss with the following settings (Therefore we'll be using effectively 2 bevel and emboss effects on one layer, but ofcourse the previous one will be fixed, as it is rendered to a layer).

The arrows show the new light's direction. It's direction differs from the first, it will act as a key light. Use white color for this. Reminding you yet again that the pixel based settings may vary in different sized images. Now it is time to put some water in the font, as if we needed it! But hesido.com always cares about teaching new techniques, so here we go! We'll add a new layer to the very top and change its setting to hard light. We'll then pick a bluish and light color.

We'll paint over the font in our new water layer with 100% opacity and with a hard brush. We can add some waves to it like seen below:

We'll now have to mask our water layer so it matches the text. We could use our original font layer's transperancy for masking, but this really hurts the effect. Instead we will use the bevel and emboss shadows layer for the layer mask. With this mask, our water layer mask will have semi-transparent values that match the glass effect.

We'll now have to mask our water layer so it matches the text. We could use our original font layer's transparency for masking, but this really hurts the effect. Instead we will use the previously created bevel and emboss shadows layer for the layer mask. Select the water layer and apply the selection as mask.

After applying the Emboss Shadows layer's transperancy as the layer mask, you get this:

If we hadn't used the shadows layers transperancy, the water layer would reduce the glass effect. Now it is masked with the transparent pixels of the shadows layer. Now we'll add some foam. Add a new layer, select a white and hard brush, keep the countours of the water and then smear the foam.

After smearing:

Just do it across the whole text, and you're done with the foam! To increase the readibility, we may just add a small glow to the font layer, and reduce the opacity of the water and foam layer to about 40-50%. The glow settings are as follows (optional):

This is the final layer structure:

Voila! This is the end, end here we have our font in all its glassy glory!!

Tip: You can reduce the outer glow or turn it off completely as it may not be needed at all for the readibility of the text, here you see that the double bevel effect is a bit lost due the outer glow. The outer glow might not be needed at all depending on your base colors and light direction. Without changing any layer setting, let's add a new background to see how our effect gets along with a different background (a blurred photo in this example) :

Here are two scaled down images for projection display, I prepared them for a bar called "Stage" some years ago (the bar is now closed to my knowledge, and I hope I am not related somehow to that :) ). The one on the left is prepared like in this tutorial and the one on the right has a single bevel with the appropriate colors and some wavy mapping setting to make it look like steel, or at least, I hope! The font was chosen by them earlier.

Tutorials > Google-text Make the Google-text This whole text is copyright of Google and I used it only to show this technique. You may not use this for professional use. Only personal...

After you've done everything on the previous picture, add these blending-options;

 And it should look like this:

Google Logo Tutorial

By Syko/Syked One Okay, I'm gonna show you how to create your own Google logo. 1.) This step can't be taking anymore. I just heard from someone that the Google font (I got from someone over the email) is a commercial font. And I can't distribute it over the internet. I'm sorry for this. I'm working on a sollution for this. You might wanna try using the font called 'Book Antiqua'. Any suggestions for another sollution can be sent HERE! I'd apprieciate it. We're gonna start by downloading the Google font. It's called 'Catull' and you can not download it here anymore. Unzip the file and put the TrueTypeFont (.TTF) file in the folder C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/ or C:/WINNT/Fonts/. Now you have installed the Google font. 2.) Open a new document, with a white background. Select the 'Type Tool' and select the font 'Catull' from the scroll down menu. Now type something. Use a 72 pt size for the best effect. 3.) Now open the 'Character' window (Window > Character). Select the first character or you word and click on the color box. Now give the first character the color '#3364C2'.

4.) Now select the second character and give that one the color '#F31900' on the same way you did with the first character.

5.) Now give the third character the color '#F7D72B', the fourth character the color '#3364C2', the fifth character the color '#44C400' and the sixth character the color '#F31900'. If you have more characters, just continue from the first character's color. Here's a list of wich character should have wich color: 1st character: #3364C2 (Also 7th character) 2nd character: #F31900 (Also 8th character) 3rd character: #F7D72B (Also 9th character) 4th character: #3364C2 (Also 10th character) 5th chaacter: #44C400 (Also 11th character) 6th character: #F31900 (Also 12th character)

6.) Now go to the blendings options of the text layer and use the following settings:

Now you should have something like this:

7.) Now the finishing touches. Select the 'Type Tool' again and type TM with the font 'Times New Roman', with the color '#868686', and put it on the right top of the logo. Use as font size 12 pt. Select the 'Type Tool' again, and type a slogan or something with the font 'Arial' and also this one with the color '#868686'. For the slogan use as fonts size 14 pt. Put this slogan somewhere under the logo. If you have a character with a 'tail', put the slogan next to the tail.

You're DONE! Congrats.

Gradient Tech Bars Gradient Tech Bars Tutorial by: Jake Remmirez Preparation: Photoshop 6-CS Step 1 Open a new document in Photoshop. For the purpose of this tutorial I will be using a document of 500x500px, at 72 DPI with a white background. Once your document is open, fill the layer with dark grey color #4F4F4F and then create a new layer. Once your new layer is open, grab the Rectangular Marque Tool and pull out a wide selection, but not high.

Step 2 Once you have your selection pulled out, reset your colors, (D+X) and then change your background color from black to a light grey, like #BDBDBD Then pull the gradient from top to bottom of the selection, making sure that the white is at the top and the grey is at the button, giving you a "Gradient Bar" so to speak. Then deselect. It should now look something like this:

Now, duplicate the layer that has this gradient bar on it, and flip it vertically, (Edit>Transform>Flip Vertical) Then select free transform (Ctrl+T) hold shift and alt, while draggin the top bar down, until the new layer is about half the height as the original one. It should now look like this:

Step 3 Now, I would like you to define the following pattern: (save image, open in photoshop, Edit>Define Pattern)

Step 4 Create a new layer and pull out a selection like the one you see below:

And then go to Edit>Fill and make the settings to fill it with the new pattern (below)

And lower the opacity of the pattern to around 10-15% (i used 13%) Your final product should look like this:

And here is what you can potentially achieve using these style of bars:

Thats about it! These bars are also currently in use in PixelFull's layout as the side bars, so you can get an idea of what kind of effect these bars have. Thanks for reading this tutorial and Good Luck! Copyright PixelFull 2004 PixelFull Productions

Clean Interface Part 1 Clean Interface Tutorial by: Jake Remmirez Requirements: Photoshop 7-CS Introductions: In this tutorial I will teach you the basic technique and basic mentality behind creating a clean interface. These techniques and way's of thinking can be used to make websites, application skins like WinAMP. and windows themes. As long as you are thinking the right way, you will always succeed. The first thing to mention is realism. If you want it to look clean, simple, and nice, you have to keep in mind that you should make it look realistic. This means, keeping your light sources in order and not having 10 different light sources. This tutorial is recommended for ADVANCED users as I wont be explaining each and every little step, you should read some other photoshop tutorials if you dont understand something in this tutorial. Good Luck and Have Fun! Step 1 For the purpose of this tutorial open a new document that is 800x800px , 72 DPI and white background. Make sure to zoom in 100% and create a new layer. Set your foreground color to : #F2F2F2. Now, grab the Rounded Rectangle tool, set the Radius to 10px and pull out a selection simaler to the one you see below and add 1px stroke at 38% to it.

Now, ctrl+click the layer, create a new layer and drag a linear gradient from top to bottom (white to black) and the set the blending mode to color burn and opacity to 33% this should make it have a neat gradient effect to indicate the light source (above). Step 2 Now we will create a nice glare on the object. Create a new layer, grab the circular marguee tool and pull out a selection where you want your glare to be located and fill it with white. Then ctrl+click the original object layer and click the layer mask button. Then lower the glare's opacity to your desire. Now create another new layer, ctrl+click the object layer again, and set the foreground color to white. Then go to Edit>Stroke and set the stroke to 1px Inside.

(image is low quality) Now its starting to look a lot better isnt it! Step 3 Now we will add some indented lines in your object to give it the feel like its really a "metal" or "real" object. Grab the Line tool and pull 1 line down the middle of the object on a new layer. Then duplicate the line, fill it with white, and nudge it 1 px to the right. Then duplicate the white line, and nudge it to 2 times to the left. You should get this effect:

Now set up more lines like I have below (feel free to come up with your own design here)

This concludes Part 1 of this tutorial. In the next installment, you will learn how to create this:

Smooth Text
Written by admin Saturday, 22 January 2005

Let's create some sexy looking text! I've never really used this type of style on anything I've ever made but hey, you might like and it decide you want to use it. This tutorial is very simple and shouldn't cause anyone any problems at all. Create a new document, any size, I'm using 720x540 to give me plenty of room to work with. Set your background to #EEEEEE and your foreground to #FFFFFF. I know these colors are very light but it won't be like this when we're done. Make a selection of text on your canvas, I've chose to write Sconner in this tutorial, you write whatever you like.

So that's my text, I've used Arial Black as my font, to be quite honest you can use any font you like, you'll always get the same text effect. So, on your layer we want to add some styles, so set the following styles on your text:

Be sure you get the color overlay right or it might look a little silly - #D15400 is the hex incase you can't read the font. So you've set the style? Brilliant, it should look a little something like this:

Groovy baby! Now all we need to do is add the finishing touches, so CTRL+CLICK the text layer then go to Select>Modify>Contract and set the contract to 2px (Depending on your text size this might be more than 2px or for smaller fonts it'd be 1px) You should have something looking like this:

So now you have this you should create a new layer above the text and grab your Paint Bucket tool and fill it with #FFFFFF (white) Once you have done this, press CTRL+D to deselect the later and you should end up with something a little like this:

Now on this layer, set the opacity to 30% and it should turn very faint. This looks good so you can keep it like that OR you can go for a more shiny effect. Here's mine:

If you want the shiny effect then go ahead and use your Elliptical Marquee Tool and highlight the section you want deleted like this:

Done that? Simply press delete and it'll delete the section for you. Here's my finished product:

ice text photoshop tutorial

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Start a new document, and set the foreground colour as #336EA7. Now type your text in the center (in #336EA7), leaving some space at the top and bottom. (My image was 300 X 300 pixels)

Right click on your text layer and select Rasterize layer. Now go to Image > Rotate > 90 CCW . Now apply the wind filter (Filter > Stylize > Wind ) with the setting "wind" and "from the right". Do this 3 times. Now you need to rotate the image back to its original position (Image > Rotate > 90 CW).

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Right click on the layer and select Duplicate layer. Now apply the motion blur (Filter > Blur > Motion Blur-90 and distance as 45. Now take the eraser tool and remove the blur from the top section of the text.

Now merge the two layers by clicking on the duplicate layer and pressing the control key and E, or you can go to layer > merge down. Now apply the Find edges filter ( Filters > Stylize > Find Edges ).

A good text effect that looks great and is still practical.

Oil Text Create oil text that is so realistic, it will make you slip just by looking at it!

1. Create a new image (500x100) and make a new layer. 2. Using the text tool write a word or two in Impact (72 pt.) Make the texts color 50% gray or #8A8A8A. Rename the layer "Oil Text" 3. Use the Crop Tool to cut off the extra space around your word to get a result like the picture below.

3. While pressing the ctrl key, left click the oil text layer. 4. Without deselecting, go to the channels tab and click on the little button on the bottom that says Save selection as channel when highlighted

5. Your channels tab should have a new channel called Alpha 1. Select channel Alpha 1

6. You should still have your text selected from step 3. Do the following Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur (Radius: 5 pixels) Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur (Radius: 2.5 pixels) Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur (Radius: 1 pixel)

You can deselect the text now. 7. Go back to your layers palette and select the Oil Text Layer. 8. Filter > Render > Lighting Effects and click Ok to rasterize the layer. Use the settings in the picture and set the light up exactly like the image.

9. Create a new light by dragging the light bulb into the preview. Select the new light and set it up exactly like the image (the upper colors blue color is #00A2FF)

If you have an image like the one below, congratulations! You have come a long way! You just passed the hard part so the rest is easy. You could stop right now and have metal text but you came to get Oil Text so dont give up now!

10. Right click the "Oil Text" layer in the layer palette and Duplicate Layer 11. Select the Oil Text Copy layer and Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur (Radius 5 pt) 12. Change Oil Text Copy layer's blending mode to Difference

First make the metal background, if you havent already heres a tutorial on how to make it.Metal Background Tutorial This is what you will be making in this tutorial:

Type the text in the same color as the metal. The go to blending options and put these settings.

You should get something like this.

You can play around with the settings to get everything just like you want it.

Custom Shape
Written by admin Tuesday, 18 January 2005

I has

know when I was new to photoshop I would always wonder how to make custom shapes. Photoshop standard shapes built it, like your Rounded Rectangle Tool and all of those, but say you want to create your own groovy shape, how is it done? Here we go, I'll show you the way it's done, then you can play about and create whatever shapes you want!

Create a new document, I've made mine 720x540 and grab your Rectangular Marqee Tool and make yourself a nice big square, but DO NOT fill it with anything, just leave it highlighted, as shown below:

Now you have your square, oen up your Channels Window for those who don't know how to get this up on your screen, go to Window>Channels and make sure the box is ticked. So you now have your channels window open right? select Save this section as channel which is the button that looks like this Now you have created a new channel, double click it and give it a name, I called mine Shape. Your screen should be all black with the shape highlighted in white. Press CTRL+D to deselect the shape so it's no longer highlighted and you should be left with a white box. like this:

Now then, heres where the magic starts! Grab your Polygonal Lasso Tool and make a little triangle in the corner of the shape like this:

you can make your triangles any size you want, and they don't have to be anything speical, as you can see mine is all over the place. Anyway, once you have highlighted it, press delete and the corner should disapere. Go around and do this to all of the corners, here is what mine ended up looking like:

As you'll see I took a chunk out of the top of the shape, just to give it a bit of life, you can do this as well if you like, just use your imagination! Now we have some kind of distorted shape - Heres how we make it look nice. Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and set it to 4pixels again, you can set this to anything you like. Now our shape is blured press CTRL+L and this window should pop up, set your shape at the following settings:

Now when you press ok, your shape should be looking like this:

Looks kinda cool now right? Now what we need to do it CTRL+Click the shape layer, make sure it looks like this:

Now go back to your Layers Pannel, and click on the background and you should return to your normal page, with the shape we have just made still highlighted. Create a new layer, and fill the highlighted shape with any color you want. Bingo, we have have a nice custom made shape that could be used for interfaces or sigs or whatever really. Here's my finished product after some editing:

Layout design and implementation

Step1
Learn to design a website in Adobe Photoshop, slice the psd file and implement it in html using Macromedia Dreamweaver. First take a look over the psd file:

Save next picture on computer. Need it in this tutorial:

Step2
Lets begin . Open a new file in Adobe Photoshop with a black background. Import the picture in your document and place it like this:

Step3
New layer in the Layers Tab and place the logo in the top left corner. I chose AnnaBelle as logotype:

Step4
Create a new layer and type the site content on the same vertical line with the site logo. Choose what font you want. I used Futura Light 24px,16px and Arial 11px. It should look like this:

Step5
Ok. Now the navigation: type the name of the buttons with Arial Bold 12px like this:

Step6
Create the buttons background. New layer (down the layer buttons):

Right click on layer and select Rasterize Layer

With Brush Toll selected, delete an area like this:

Duplicate layer and move it for any button. The result should be like this:

Now select layer background thats behind the home button and Edit>Transform > Flip Horizontal and move it like this:

Step7
Now you have a layout for your site:

Step8
In the next part well prepare the psd for html implementation. We slice the psd file. Take a look in the next picture and you can see what parts of layout interests us:

For the rest of the site content well use HTML and CSS in Dreamweaver. Now we can cut the images we need for the HTML implementation. Select the Slice Tool and trace a contour like this:

Step9
Continue with the next zone and the result should be like this:

Step10
File > Save For Web and for every slice set the slice settings:

For the slices that need a higher quality, set jpeg high resolution and for the rest, set settings gif. Do this for every slice in your layout:

Quick Tip: To get the best image quality/file size ratio, export an image in GIF format whenever it has a few colors and/or close shades and export as JPEG when there are a lot of different colors in the picture.

Step11
After you configure the settings for every slice, and select all your slices (SHIFT+CLICK), choose Save and configure the save settings like this: Save as Type: Images Only(.jpg), Settings: Default Settings, Slices: Selected Slices:

Thats all. You sliced your psd file. Open the folder where you saved the pictures and rename them like this: site_03.gif to logo.gif, site_07.jpg to girl-top.jpg, site_10.gif to active-page.gif, site_11.gif to home.gif, site_13.gif to us.gif, site_14.gif to services.gif, site_15.gif to help.gif, site_16.gif to contact.gif, site_19.gif to beauty-txt.gif, site_22.gif to bottom.gif. You have now the pictures for your site. In the next steps youll do the implementation in HTML using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004.

Step12
Open a new html document in Dreamweaver. In the Layout Tab select the Layout Table Tool:

Step13
Draw a table like in the next picture:

Step14
Choose Draw Layout Cell in the Layout Tab and draw a cell table:

Step15
Next draw another layout cell:

Step16
Click inside in this cell and choose Insert > Image and select your image folder. Choose logo.gif picture and click OK. Set your background page to black Modify > Page Properties, Background Color. Set the Top Margin to 50 pixels:

Step17
Click on the table and change its size, then insert a new row:

Step 18
Inside this row insert the active-page.gif picture and adjust the row, set the row horizontal alignment in the Properties Tab to right like here:

Step 19
Another cell box and insert the home.gif picture:

Step 20
Continue to add new cells and rows for all your pictures:

Step 21
Now insert a nice text in middle site section. Set the text size, color, etc.

Step 22
Select each button and on Properties Tab enter the in the link field #link and you have a very simple site made by you. Tags: photoshop, photoshop+tutorial, layout, dreamweaver

LEGO Logo Effect

By Syko/Syked-One (c) Okay, this tutorial will show you how to create a LEGO look-a-like logo. 1.) Download the font 'Legothick' by clicking here. Unzip the file and put the TrueTypeFont (.TTF) file in the folder C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/ or C:/WINNT/Fonts/. Now you have installed the LEGO font. 2.) Now start a new document in Photoshop of any size you want. Make the background totally red (#FF0000). Now select the Type Tool and select the font Legothick. Now type something. Only use capitals, coz the font doesn't have lowercase characters. Doesn't matter how big you make the text, but I used 100 pt for this tutorial. Set the anti-aliasing method as Sharp. Now you should have something like this:

3.) Now select your text and open the character window (Window > Character). Now set the tracking as -80. Like this:

4.) Rasterize the text layer (Layer > Rasterize > Layer). Now select the Magic Wand Tool and click within the borders of your first character. Now hold down SHIFT and click within the borders of each other character of your text. After that fill the selected with white (Edit > Fill > Use: White at normal blending and 100 % opacity). Now deselect the selected parts (Select > Deselect). Now you should have something like this:

5.) Now go to the blending options of your layer and make a yellow (#FFFF00) stroke that's allmost (not exactly, a bit smaller) as big as the black stroke of your text now. If you have done that, you should have something like this:

6.) The last thing you could do is add a copyright sign at the right top of your text. select the Type Tool again and use the font 'Arial' and hit CTRL + ALT + C. If you don't get the copyright sign with that shortcut, just copy (CTRL+C) it from here: '', and then paste (CTRL+V) it in Photoshop. Make the font size small enough, but not to small orcourse. If you done everything right, you should have something like this:

You're DONE!! Congrats!

LotR Text Style Tutorial

By Syko/Syked One (c) Well, this tutorial shows you how to get the text style of the Lord of the Rings. Here goes!

1.) Start a new picture (File > New) of any size you want. Make the background white (all colors should do fine though(black looks pretty cool too)). Select the Type Tool and type something. I used the font 'Ringbearer'. You can download 'Ringbearer' here.

2.) Then go to the text layer's blending options (Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options). In the left menu, click on 'Drop Shadow' and use the settings as in the picture (the color of this shadow is black (#000000)):

3.) Then click in the left menu of the blending options on 'Bevel and Emboss' and use the setting as in this picture (the color of the Highlight Mode is #E5B422 and the color of the Shadow Mode is #000000 (black)):

4.) Then go to 'Contour' in the left menu of the blending options, and use the setting as in this picture:

5.) Then go to 'Color Overlay' and use the settings as in the following picture:

6.) Then go to 'Pattern Overlay' and use the settings as in this picture (the Pattern is just a default pattern that's in the slide down menu..):

7.) If you done all that, your result should look like this:

Mac Style Text Tutorial

1: This is a simple tutorial with no artistic interpretation like airbrushing - just follow the tutorial and enjoy. Start off with a medium sized canvas (I'm using 400x400) and create your text. Use any colour you like, but I lifted #066CC0 straight from the QuickTime symbol on http://www.apple.com/, so I'll be using that. Hold ctrl/cmd and click on the layer containing your text to select the whole layer. Then create a new layer by pressing ctrl/cmd + shift + N, and reduce your selection by going Select || Modify || Contract and entering a value of around 3, depending on the size of your image. Go Edit || Fill or use the fill tool (G) to fill your selection with a lighter blue. I will use #0682C2, which is again taken from the QuickTime logo.

2: Now make sure you have your top layer selected - the one you just filled. Go Layer || Layer Style || Bevel and Emboss and enter these settings. The size, as usual, depends on your canvas size; the size I have used is suitable for my 400x400 canvas. Finally, you can add a 1px stroke of dark blue with Layer || Layer Style || Stroke - I am using #0852A5.

3: That's pretty much it. You could add a drop shadow as in the picture, I have used the default settings.

Metal Orb
Step 1 First of all, lets start out with our base used for the orb. The base layers I used are recycled from a skin I made and look like this. It doesn't really matter how you make your since most of it is covered by the lcd anyways.

Step 2 Next you would need to add the lcd display. In my case I used the color #5B7168. I'd suggest that you use a much more fun looking color than this boring green. If you want to duplicate this shape, its suggested that you make one half of the shape (left or right) and mirror it on the other half. This should save you some time from working with the vectors.

Step 3 Now that we have the lcd, lets add some layer styles to give it more dept. Inner shadow: color=black [view settings] Outer glow: color=#646464 [view settings] Inner glow: color=#171A21 [view settings] Satin: color=#black [view settings] [view contour] Stroke: color=#272C38 [view settings] When your done, you should have something looking like this.

Step 4 Next you'd need to add the font to the lcd display, its good to make the font big so it takes up most of the display. You want to font

to stand out the most in the entire image as the center of attention. Latter the glass on top would help complement this allot. To the font you'd have to add some layer styles, these are the ones I used. Drop shadow: color=#black [view settings] Bevel: color=#default [view settings] When your done, you should have something like this.

Step 5 Your next step is to add a little bevel around the lcd display. So right click on the lcd display layer thumbnail in your layer palette, and click "Select Layer Transparency". With the selection visible, click on your toolbar: Select > Transform Selection. Click the chain link on the toolbar to "maintain aspect ratio" make the selection 5% bigger. . Then set the values in the toolbar to that of the image below. This should

With the selection enabled, go back to the base metal layer and then Ctrl+C to copy that portion from the base. Then Ctrl+V to paste the selection to the new layer. Make sure the new layer is between the lcd display and the base layer. Now apply these layer styles to the new layer. Inner shadow: color=#black [view settings] Bevel: color=default [view settings] When your done, you should have something like this:

Step 6 Next you'd have to add the glass to the lcd display, and now we have a chance to make things look funky. First: select layer transparency of your lcd display and select your gradient tool with white as your foreground color, automatically Photoshop would make a gradient called "Foreground to Transparent". [view settings] Second: One a new layer, Create the gradient from the top of the lcd down to by about 60 pixels. When your done, you should have something like this:

Third: With the the layer your just created selected, as your active layer. From your toolbar, click Edit > Free Transform. In the

height box (H) from your edit box like Step5 make the height value about 215% to 220%. Then move the layer down a bit so that its just within your lcd display area. When your done you should have something that looks like this:

Forth: We set the layer blending mode to "Overlay", now you should see the how the light intensity brightens the up the lcd display. No screenshot for you this time :(, look at the shot of the next step to see where you should be Step 7 Next we do yet another gradient, so redo the First and Second parts of Step 6 in a new layer. Now we have a new third step Third: With the the layer your just created selected, as your active layer. From your toolbar, click Edit > Free Transform. In the height and width boxes, make both values 75%. Then move the layer down a bit so that its just within the top areas of your lcd display area. Forth: Set the layer blending style to "Lighten" When your done you should have something that looks like this:

Step 8 Next we add a little area where the light darkens a bit, just for more color instead of having too much white at the top. First: Select layer transparency of the lcd display area, create a new layer and fill with a gradient from the top of the selection with a distance of about 25 pixels. Use a gradient of with color: white to color:#89A99D (if your lcd is a different color, use a similar color variation) [view settings]. Before making the gradient, set your gradient type to "radial"

You should have something like this:

Second: From your tool bar, click Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, with a radius of about 4.0 pixels. Third: Now that its blurred, the layer is a bit too much so reduce the Opacity of the layer to 50%.

When your done, you should have something like this:

Step 9: Now you need to use your own judgment. Use your airbrush tool with color=#CCFFED. Use a gradient looking radial brush at a size of about 15. On a new layer, make one glob at the top tip of the lcd display with the middle of the brush being at the top most part of the lcd. Second: Once you've done that, select layer transparency of the lcd display then go back to the layer and delete that portion of the layer. Third: On your toolbar, click Edit > Free Transform and adjust the height and width of the layer until it suits the look that you like. Also reduce the opacity of the layer a bit. When done you should have something like this:

Step 10: Go back to the firs layer that you put on the of the lcd display, the one that you set the layer style to "overlay". If you did it correctly, some portion of the layer should be on top of the metal like mine did, just at the bottom lip. Now duplicate that layer and carry it to the top of all the layers you have. Select the layer transparency of the lcd display and back to the layer you just duplicated. Then delete the area with that selection. The layer should be barely visible so duplicate the layer again once or twice then merge them together. Then finally apply the layer style "Overlay" with color=#CCFFED. Feel free to reduce the opacity of the merged layer a bit if your fee that its a bit to much. Mine looked like this:

This gives the effect of the light shinning outside the orb on the metal that lies opposite the light. Step 11: Finally add some little details to the metal layer and your done :) When the final product is done, it should look like this:

this tutorial is about an text effect that looks great and is easy to make 1. First of all you can support us by clicking one of the google ads at the bottom or by donating money via paypal(also located at the bottom)

2. create a new document 3. get some kind of cool background(make one your self other wise you didn't design the whole piece by ur self ) 4. i'm using this one:

5.Create some white text on top of it:

6. Duplicate the text layer (layer-->Duplicate layer...) 7. Rasterize the 2nd text layer (layer-->Rasterize-->Type) 8. Do a gaussianblur (filter-->blur-->Gaussianblur) of 1.1 pixels on the 2nd text layer

9. Click on the little f at the bottom right in the layers pallet and select gradient overlay and press ok and this is the Result

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Metal Text Tutorial

1: We're going to try to get a really metallic chrome effect on our text, using curves and other features in Photoshop. Start off with a large canvas, the larger the better - I'm using 800x800. Make some text and have it a light-medium grey, in the example I'll use #B3B3B3. Start off by using a nice big bevel and emboss with settings similar to these. As usual, the size should be suitable for the size of the image; try to make it look like the example.

2: Now we need to rasterize our layer. Create a new layer by pressing ctrl/cmd + shift + N, then link the new layer with the text layer, and press ctrl/cmd + E to merge it. This will rasterize our text layer. Now we need to adjust the image using curves - press ctrl/cmd + M to open the curves menu, then enter a nice even zig zag, as shown here.

3: Go Image || Adjustments || Variations, set the slider at the top to one notch from the bottom, and then click once on the 'Current Pick' box, once on the 'More Blue' box, and then once on the 'More Green' box - now click OK. Press ctrl/cmd + M again to open up the curves menu, and enter a slightly different curve like this. Now add a drop shadow using the default settings by going Layer || Layer Style || Drop Shadow and clicking OK.

4: Now use the layer styles again (Layer || Layer Styles) to add an inner glow using these settings. Go to layer styles again and this time add a second bevel and emboss, with these settings. For the next stage, we need to create a selection - hold ctrl/cmd and click on the main layer in the layers palette. This will select the letter/text - now go Select || Modify || Contract and enter a value of 3. Now go Select || Feather (ctrl/cmd + shift + D) and enter 3 again.

5: At the bottom of the layers palette, click the 'Create New Fill or Adjustment Layer' button - a circle half black and half white - and click 'Gradient Map'. Click the arrow at the side of the dialogue box that appears (see thisimage), and load the file 'Metals'. Apply the gradient in the bottom left (black > white > black - "Steel Bar"), then set this layer's blending mode as 'overlay'. This should give a similar effect to that seen opposite. If not, try the tutorial a few times - there are several variables such as the curves input that can make quite a difference, and it takes some practise!

Tutorials > BountyHunter Metal Copy the metallic style from the BountyHunter-text! Create a new document with some black text;

Add these blending-options to it (NOTE: THE PATTERN I USED WAS A STANDARD ONE, SO YOU SHOULD HAVE IT AS WELL);

 You should get something like this;

Hold CTRL and press the layer/thumbnail to select the text;

Go to SELECT>MODIFY>CONTRACT and choose a number depending on your image-size (NOTE: I used 3);

 Fill the layer with black and go to FILTER>NOISE>ADD NOISE and add a little bit of noise:

Industrial Text
Learn how to create a type of grunge texture while creating this industrial text! We are going to create this:

N-sane Staff Comments: Or this:

1. Write some text that you want to look scrached and worn out (Impact is a good font to use, if you can't find any other.) Use any bright color you want (I used yellow.)

2. Rasterize your text layer (right-click it in the layers tab and go Rasterize Layer.) If you want your text to be more bold, go Edit > Free Transform and strech your text out a bit. 4. Now create a layer above your text layer. This will be where we have our scratches and stuff. 5. Now it would be nice to have a brush set to create the worn-out scratch effect. i used one called Lizzy_scratch (you can search Google for this) Now brush some scratches over your text until it looks nice. N-sane Staff Comments: For those of you who do not know how or do not want to use custom brushes, we have an alternative for you: a. Take out your brush tool (looks like a paintbrush.) In the settings bar, load the Natural Brushes 2 set of brushes. Choose the brush on the very bottom (shown in the image) and change the Master Diameter to a bit larger than how tall your text is. I chose 130px because it looked right.

Click to Enlarge b. Make sure your foreground color is black. Take your brush and just dab over your text. Dont cover the text completely. You want shades of gray.

c. Take your polygon lasso tool and semi-carefully make a zig zagging selection from side to side going down. Basically create a Z except with more than 2 zig zags. Take your Move Tool and move the selection down a few pixels.

d. Strictly horizontal lines are annoying so lets add some variety. I decided to make a few vertical selections. Move these to the left or right a few pixels.

There you go; you have a simple grungy texture. 6. Now thay you've finished that, go to your text layer and use the Magic wand selection tool to select your text like so:

N-sane Staff Comments: Another way to select the text is to Ctrl-Click the text layer in the layer palette. Then go Select > Inverse.

See? Same result, different technique. 7. Go back to your scratch layer and hit delete, just so we don't get any scratches outside our text.

8. Merge the two layers (text and scratches) together. And give the text a 2px black stroke on the outside. (Edit > Stroke) N-sane Staff Comments: You can merge the two layers in a very simple way. You should be on the scratches layer. Click the link area on the text layer on the layer palette (shown in the image below.) Then go Layer > Merge Linked.

Click to Enlarge 9. Now go to Layer > Layer Style > Bevel and Emboss with these settings: Inner Bevel Chisel Hard Depht: 400% Size: 1px Soften: 0px Click to Enlarge

Optional Background:
Make your background a dark shade of gray and add some brushing scratches in the same way you did to the text. If you have a metal plate brush use it as well, it will look good! You can also use the dodge/burn tool to make bumps and some lighting effects!

Need For Speed

Written by admin Saturday, 22 January 2005

Howdy Photoshoppers - Today I'm going to hopefully teach you how to make a very stylish looking Need for Speed logo. For those who don't know what need for speed is, it's a game, a racing game with lot's of cool cars. It's well worth a look at actually! Ok, before we start If you want the best possible looks (in my opinion) you should download the font below and use it throughout the tutorial. Download Font

Now we have our font we can get the ball rolling. First create your document, I'm using the usual 720x540 which gives me a load of room to work with. Create some text, for this example I'm going to use Sconner as my text. Set your background color to #2B2B2B and any foreground color you want, I'm using white as mine. Before we actually make the text, we should make the outline of the text, which will be the metallic effect. For those who have read my Brushed Metal tutorial then you will know how to do this, but I will still explain anyway. Make a new layer above your background layer and name is Metal with this layer fill it with white. Once you've filled it, click on Layer Styles and set a Gradient Overlay with the following settings:

Also you will need the gradient as it's a custom gradient. If you don't know how to make gradients then now is about the time to be reading my Gradients Tutorial Anyway, here's the colors so make the gradient:

Now we have this done, your document should be looking something like this: CLICK FOR PREVIEW Looks a bit wacky at the minute right? Now we need to add some Noise to our layer, so go ahead and click Filter>Noise>Add Noise and set the following settings:

Now add some motion blur so go to Filter>Blur>Motion Blur and add the following settings:

Bingo, we now have some cool brushed metal, although it's very faint, it can be changed by changing the Gradient Overlay opacity to something lower if you like. Now we move on, and we make some text, so using the font I've provided make your text, I'm going to use

Sconner for my example. Make your font size about 72px so we have it nice and big. Ok, now we need to set the layer styles so set the following:

Now for this pattern, you will notice it's not a normal pattern, you'll see it's a custom one. I've kindly provided you with the .PAT file which is the pattern so you don't even have to make the pattern yourself. Download the pattern, unzip it using Winzip or any other zip de compiler. Once you have the .PAT file you do the following:

Ok once you've done this you should be able to see the pattern in your patterns list. If you can be sure to select it and you'll have some jazzy looking text like this: CLICK FOR PREVIEW Now we get into the nitty gritty of the tutorial with the "Hard Parts" CTRL+CLICK your text later, so it's got the pretty dashes going round and round and go to Select>Modify>Expand and set the expand value to 6px. Your text should now be looking something like this:

Looking like that? Brilliant! Now click on your Brushed Metal layer and press CTRL+SHIFT+I - this should invert the layer and it'll look

something like this: CLICK FOR PREVIEW Now all we simply do is press the Delete key and it should delete everything around the text. Press CTRL+D to deselect the layer. It's starting to look good now huh? Here's how mine looks!

woot, now we only need to add some finishing touches so fire ahead and add the following properties to your Brushed Metal Layer

Looks awesome right? you can keep editing your logo until you are happy with what you have, here is how mine ended up!

Tutorials > Cigarette Add a cigarette without healthdamage :) Open up a new document with a logo or a text in it on a seperate layer from the background;

Hide it and create with the retangular marquee-tool a cigarette-shape and fill it with the colors white and brown;

Add these layer-styles to the whole cigarette;

 It should look like this;

 Select the cigarette and create a new layer; Select the reflected-gradient and make it "Black-Transparent-Black";

Lower the opacity of the gradient-layer;

 Add some burn-marks with the pencil-tool on the same layer as the cigarette;

Here comes the tricky part: Copy the layer-style of the cigarette, merge all the cigarette-layers (gradient, burn-marks and the actual cigarette) together. Now paste the layer-style you copier earlier;

Make the logo/text visible again and position the cigarette (NOTE: notice the shadow moves "with you" when you leave the layer-style intact);

 Select the WHOLE logo or text without their possible layer-styles;

Grab the polygonal-lassotool and hold down ALT and cut the parts you want to keep visible out of the selection;

 Press DELETE;

 And you're done. You can add some smoke if you want...

Create a new image. My image was 300x300 but yours can be different. Press D to reset the colors. Fill the background with White. Use your text tool to type something. I typed Text. Duplicate the layer. Click Edit->Transform->Flip Vertical. Click Rasterize Layer on the vertically inverted layer. Drag the text right below the normal text. Lower the layer opacity to 60%. It should look similar to this:

Click Edit->Transform->Distort Distort the image like this:

Press enter. Your realistic dropshadow is done, enjoy! My result:

Photo Text

Written by Mat Dwyer Created: October 10th, 2004 Heres what your making:

1) Open up a new photoshop document. 600X300 would be good. 2) Open up the photograph that you want in your text. 3) While your in the photograph window, Press CTRL+A to select all. Then Go Edit> Define Pattern. Press enter after it asks you to name it.

4) Go into your new document and create text. Use a thick font for best results. 5) Make the font stretch for your whole document. 6) Go into blending options on the text layer. Then go to Pattern Overlay. Choose your pattern from the drop down menu. Then adjust the scale so it fits the text.

7) Your done! Add your own styles for best results! It can look really good if you put like a picture of money or something, try it out!

In this tutorial I will show you how to make that cool aqua text that is on my header. In the end you text will look like the O below. (based on the look of a text created by robouk.mchost.net )

The fist step is to make your text. I chose the font : Times New Roman, with a size 450, and a light blue color.

With your text tool selected. right click on your picture and choose "rasterize layer" Now duplicate your layer, by pressing the arrow on the layers panel and selecting "duplicate layer"

Set your new layer mode to screen.

Position your new layer so that the light colord O is like the one below

Now set the opasity of this layer to around 30%

Now, select the outline of the original O. To do this, hold the control button, and click on your original text's layer. Now go to select, invers to inverse your selection. Now go to your top layer, and press delete. What we just did was deleted the part of your duplicated that was sticking outside your original text's boundires. Now go to your top layer, and press control + e to merge your two text layers together. To make sure you did this part right, hold control and click on your merged layer. If you did it correctly you should have a perfect outline of your O.

Now, take out your doudge tool. We are going to lighten some of your text to give it that aqua feel. So, lighten the areas that are marked below. If you are having trouble making it look right, then lower the exposer of your douge tool to around 50%

You should now have an image like this, with a total of 2 layers in your picture.

Now again, hold control and click on your top layer, this should give you an outline of your text again. Now that we have things situated, we are going to save this selection for later use. So, while you have your text selected. go to select> save selection and save it as whatever you want. Now, load your selection. If you did it correctly, you should still have an outline of your big O text.

Now that we have that taken care of, while you have your text selected make a new layer. On your new layer, go to edit> stroke. We are goin to outline our O with a nice dark blue. Use the settings below, with a color close to mine.

You should now have an image like the one below:

Now, make another layer. Again, go to edit> stroke, but this time choose a width of 2 px, and the color white. Use the settings below:

Now that we have our white outline, we are going to erase the white outline from the parts that the light would not be hitting your text. Sapose to the light is comming from the top left, in that case we are going to delete the white outline in left center of the O and the right outside. To do this, take your polygon selection tool, and make a selection like the one below. And press delete.

Now make a selection like the one below, and again press delete.

Now you should have an image like the one below.

Now, we are going to move the white outline. Move your outline, just slightly to the right, so it looks like mine below:

Now we got it position right, but it still looks a little chpy doesnt it? So, we are going to smooth out the edges. Zoom in by press control & + Use your eraser tool to blend in the white outline like I have done in my selection below. Do this to all end of the line.

Now are text is starting to look good. You should have something very similar to the text below:

Now I went back down to the original text layer, and darken a few spots to add a little contrast. You can do this as you see fit, I just added some darkness were the light wouldnot be hitting the image. Most likely around the areas were we have deleted the white outlie.

Now, do give it just a little more life I have added a little reflection of white. Just to make it a little more glossy. It is barely noticible now, but it does make a difference. To do this, make a new layer above all your previous ones. Load you saved selection and fill it with white. Lower the opasit of your layer to 15% and moove it a ittle to the right.

Now, make a new layer under your first layer. Load your saved selection once again and fill it with a dark blue. Now position to like the picture below:

Now go to filter> blur> gausian blur and set it to 4

You should now have an image like the one below.

Now I just added a little to the background to make it moreinteresting and we are all done!

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials > Plastic Gold Text Written by: Aaron
Step 1 Make a new document 500x500 pixels. Make the background layer a dark grey so we can see what we are doing. Once you've done that select the Text Tool and enter in you'd like we used Arial Black size 36pt. We called ours "Hard Metal" but you can call it what ever you like.

Step 2 Now for the good effects! While still selected with the text layer, go to Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options and select Stroke. You will then need to enter in THESE SETTINGS. The image below shows what it looks like at the moment. Do not close the window and move on to Step 3.

Step 3 Now select the Gradient Overlay setting and enter in THESE SETTINGS. You will have something that looks like this for the moment.

Step 4 Now select the Bevel and Emboss option and enter in THESE SETTINGS. You will have something that looks like this for the moment. Move on..

Step 5 Now select the Inner Shadow option and enter in THESE SETTINGS. As you can see it now looks like a nice gold effect. We will now add the little tiny effects that will make it stand out more.

Step 6 Now select the Drop Shadow option and enter in THESE SETTINGS. This is how it looks for the moment.

In this tutorial I will show you how to make an easy but effective plastic style navigation bar like the image below:

The first step is to make a new image, about 200x200 ppx depending on how big you want your nav to be. Use the square selection tool to make a rectangular selection like the one below.

Now make a new layer.

Change your forground color to a very light gray. Now get out your gradient tool. Change the gradient setting to "Fore-ground to transparent"

Now use your gradient tool to make a grey gradient making sure that the grey starts from the top and fades out to the bottum. Now make a new layer and use the same method to make a small white gradient starting from the dop and fading out in about the middle section of the button. Now that we have our gradients all done we are going to give our button a nice border. So, keeping the same selection go to edit>stroke. Make the size 1px the color a medium grey the layer style normal and make it stroke on the inside Your image should look like mine.

Now, merge your layers except for your bg layer. Duplicated your layer by selecting "duplicate layer" on the layer drop down menue. Keep duplicating your layer and positioning your buttons until you have enough to satisfy you. Your image should look similar to mine:

Now I added a nice grey rectangle behind my buttons to help seporate it from the rest of my page.

And just to make it a little more interesting I add a slightly lighter rectangle behind the last one.

The nest step is to add a small medium gray box at the top for a title bar.

And latly, to add your text.

Now you are all done. You have learned a simple and effective way to make a nice professional navigation bar.

Ok First have the text layer on your document selected.

Duplicate your Text layer, and set the opacity of the duplicated layer anywhere from 10-20 Then, with the duplicated layer selected, you should go to

Then move the flipped text layer to where you want it, and set the opacity of the duplicated layer to around 15

is what i came up with

Rock text

by Metamorphosis
posted on 13 May 2002, 11:57; level: Advanced; tool: Photoshop 6.0;

In this Tutorial, I will show you how easy it is to create rock texture for text.

1.) Let's begin by creating a new file. Go to File > New. Make it 200 X 100 pixels on a white background. 2.) Select the Text tool from the tool palette.

3.) Type something large to fill the space. Click the Move tool (top right of the tool palette) and center text.

4.) Now, go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise. (Rasterize text when dialog box appears). Follow settings below. Be sure to set to Uniform and Monochromatic.

Text should now look similar to this:

5.) Next, go to Filter > Distort > Ocean Ripple. Follow settings below, or use your own (just don't add too much effect to where the text begins to dissolve.)

Text will look like this now.

6.) Next, let's add some Bevel. Go to Layer > Layer Styles > Bevel and Emboss. Follow settings below.

Before you click OK, go to the panel to the left and click Texture. now hit OK.

Text should begin to be looking pretty good by now.

7.) To finish text, go to Layer > Layer Styles > Drop Shadow. Follow settings below.

Finished text with new background color added.

Tutorials > Shadow/Shade Add realism to a picture by adding a shade! Get an image with a figure ALL CUT OUT on a different layer then the background;

Duplicate that layer, placeit beneath the original and make it totally black by pressing CTRL+U and change the lightness;

 Press EDIT>TRANSFOR>DISORT and place the shadow in the way YOU want it to be; (NOTE: You must now a thing or two about shades)

 Give it a Gaussian Blur of let's say, 2-4 pixels;

And lower the opacity and you're done...

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