In this tutorial, i'm going to teach about how to make cool text effect from Photoshop.
If you are ready then, here we go......
So first of all you open Photoshop and follow the steps below...
1. Click Ctrl+ N, a dialog box will appear. Choose width, size & resolution as per your wish.
2. Under background content- click transparent and
click OK
3. Change the background colour to black-present on
your left side tool box.
4. Click alt+ backspace, if its already set in black.
5. Select type tool and type afterglow in white
colour.
6. Now
on your right side under layer option- Click afterglow and click Ctrl+ J. It
will make a duplicate copy of afterglow. And click the eye of afterglow copy 2
to turn off (indicates layer visibility).
7. Now change the colour of the text to yellow. (or
the colour you like).
8. Now on your right side, under layer box, click
layer 1 and afterglow by pressing Ctrl and click Ctrl+ E to merge.
9. After
merging, make a duplicate of afterglow by pressing Ctrl+ J.
10. Now
you select afterglow copy 2 and on the top, click filter-stylize-wind.
11. After clicking a box will appear so Click OK and click Ctrl+ F twice. (or even
thrice).
12. Again
you follow the same steps-filter-stylize-wind but now you click {from the
left}. Click OK.
13. Again you press Ctrl+ F twice or thrice.
14. Now you turn off the layer visibility of
Afterglow copy 2 and click Afterglow.
15. Now you click IMAGE at the top in menu bar and click image rotation then
click 90 ͦ CW. Then the image will rotate.
16. Then you do the same steps like before. Click Filter-stylize-wind. And Click Ctrl+F.
17. After
you’re done with the steps, you’re image will be like the one below.
18. Now turn on the layer visibility of Afterglow copy 2[ Eye].
19. Now
you have to change the IMAGE
to its original position. So Click image at the top[in menu bar]-image rotation
and click 90 ͦ CCW.
20. Now click After Glow Copy 2 and click Normal,
and you'll find lots of option so click SCREEN.
21. Now again under layer box on your right side,
select After Glow copy 2 and After Glow by pressing Ctrl and merge it by
pressing Ctrl+ E.
22. Now
turn on the layer visibility of After Glow Copy.[Eye]
23. Now the final image will be like the one below.
24. Now the final step and the last thing you have to do is,
click After Glow copy and click fx as in the image.
25. After clicking fx, click
inner shadow
Opacity -100%
Distance-3
Choke-15
Size-12
And
click the arrow(small tip) near the box & near the contour and select double ring.
25. That’s
it ….and then your final image will be the same as below.
OK, that's the end of this tutorial and if you have followed up this tutorial till the last and have learned it, then congratulation. This was a lengthy tutorial but i believe you've got through it.
And you can have different types of cool text effects, some are below you can check it out.
And in the next tutorial we'll learn how to put image to background so please stay tune........