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I am excited to announce yet another wordpress themes bundle that will be available for 2 weeks, starting from today. This is an extremely generous offer provided by WPmarket.net – a new wordpress themes marketplace for buying and selling wordpress themes. The deal is very simple, for a limited time, you can download 10 popular premium wordpress themes for only $20. There are no recurring fees or any other additional changes, once you make the payment you instantly download all the 10 themes included in this “wp pack”.

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For details and themes demos please visit WPtriumph.com.

Remember that this is a limited time offer, once the deal is over, this page will be removed.

Great collection of diverse calligraphy font styles, that will work perfect with ANY font or any shape as well. Please see the screenshots, you won’t regret downloading these files! Please note that the fonts are NOT included in the download, and are for demonstration purposes only, when you open the PSD file included, if you don’t have the needed fonts installed, it will automatically get transferred to another calligraphy font.

The download includes:

8 Stunning Photoshop styles (styles file)
2 previews of the styles with different fonts
1 PSD file with each of the 8 style

Styles:

* Yes – elegant glass blue effect
* Fantastic – pressed beautiful text effect with background texture
* Awesome – glowing gold effect
* Nice – cartoonish grey embossed
* Good – semi transparent glass effect with high beveled effect
* Cool – chrome effect with light texture
* Great – textured gelly-metal effect
* Excellent – glossy metallic style

Looks great with any other font (fonts are not included in the download)…

Download Now, only $1,99 for ALL of them!

Once you have made a payment, please don’t forget to click the orange button (on paypal) that says “back to merchant’s website”, once you do — your download will start automatically. If anything went wrong, just email me to the paypal address.

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Tags: 3d, calligraphy, elegant, glass, glossy, gold, layer style, metal, photoshop styles, professional, transparent

Today we are going to create an extremely beautiful text effect that you will love, I guarantee. It will look good on both dark and light backgrounds (slightly better on the dark ones) and it will look equally impressive at any font size, though again, because of the perfectly thought-through details, big and curvy fonts will present this effect significantly better. So, let’s get started!

Important! When purchasing the PSD file, please click the “Return To Merchant’s Site” orange button once you made the payment, otherwise the download will not start automatically. If anything went wrong, just email me to the paypal address email. Font is not included in the download.

Step 1 - Create a new canvas of any size you wish, we used a relatively small one and filled it with dark blue #3b434f. Select a curvy and nice font that will be able to show beautifully all the details for this text effect. We used Renaissance font and went for a really big size!!

Step 2 – Go to Layer Styles and apply the following settings:

We set the shadow to black and reduced the opacity to almost half, this will look amazing on even bigger font size and grained or busy background.

Set the inner shadow to black and full opacity. The curve quality is called “chrome” and it is one of the default ones in most Photoshop versions.

Set the Outer Glow to Linear Dodge and use a crazy blue hue as we did – #00e4ff.

Pay attention to inner glow, using semi transparent white color and Linear Dodge effect as well, we are getting a very nice look…

Cove – Deep, this is the curve you will use for bevel effect, note that this text effect doesn’t look bevelled at all, yet the mild settings we use give it full depth and 3D feel.

We are using “Gaussian” countour for Satin settings, with mild and beautiful mauve hue.

Gradient overlay – #808080 to black, and then once again #808080 to white. Note that we are using “Reflected” style, but even any other will look great!

Almost invisible #003e73 dark blue 1 pixel stroke will add wholeness to this pixel perfect text effect.
That’s it, viola! The effect is ready. If you like the way it looks but can’t get the settings to work (though I encourage you to try, it’s very easy!), feel free to purchase my PSD file for $1 only, and the download is instalt, if you don’t forget to click the “return to merchant” orange button at the end of the payment. Scroll back up for details. Enjoy!

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Sky Features

1. Four Unique Colorschemes – Sky comes with four different colors to choose from. If blue isn’t your style, then try out the Red, Purple or Green options. You can change your colorscheme at any time from within the theme options page.

2. Portfolio Section – The Portfolio section makes it easy to feature photos. This is great for creative companies or individuals who wish to create a gallery of their most recent work. The gallery is paginated and includes a full lightbox view of each image.

3. Homepage Slider – The featured slider on the homepage makes it easy to feature prominent pieces of content to your first time visitors. You can populate the slider using posts or pages and adjust animations/animation speeds within ePanel.

4. Blog Layout - Sky includes a blog layout that allows you to feature a category of posts within the homepage feed, creating a seamless experience for your visitors.

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It’s been over 2 months since the last photoshop tutorial I had posted, but I have great news for you — I am back online with loads of new stuff to show you, so stay tune for all our upcoming tuts! Today, we will begin with this nice and beautiful text effect, and as most readers request, we also release the psd for download, for only $1. The PSD is for learning purposes only, you can incorporate it in a project for a client, but you cannot directly resell this very file. Enough talking, let’s get started.

Step 1. Preparing the Photoshop Canvas.

Create a new Photoshop file (Ctrl + N). We are using 600*400 size here but as always — yours could be a lot bigger if you need.

Using the Paint Bucket tool, fill the canvas with grey-blue dark color — #535559.

Step 2. Choosing the font.

I am personally a big fan of all the fonts that were used and popular back in the 50′s, so my all time favorite font will probably be “Bello”. it’s not free, but you can purchase it online. Please note that if you purchase the PSD file, the font will NOT be included, as we cannot distribute commercial fonts. So, if you have Bello font, select it and type your word in big letter, we used 188pt here.

Step 3. Adding Layer Styles.

Now, while your text layer is still selected, go to Layer >> Layer Styles, and apply the following settings…

Now the background texture. We will be using a pattern which we created ourselves, and if you purchase the psd file it will be included already in the style itself.

Lastly, we will add a 1px stroke, with gradient overlay, to give the text more depth.

This is what we have got so far, with all the layer styles applied correctly. If your result differs from what you see here, go back and check if all the settings for layer styles have been applied correctly, so far it’s only the technical part, so you should not have any problem.

Step 4. Adding Depth to the Canvas.

It’s the era of web 2.0 and having a flat canvas can ruin any effect, no matter how beautiful it is, so if we want our effect to pop, it has to have some depth. That’s why we will not get back to the base canvas (if it’s locked, simply double click it on the layers palette, and press OK to unlock). Go to Layer >> Layer Styles, and apply the following settings:

For the gradient, use the following colors:
1. #667c85 as the light blue
2. #475e68 as the dark blue

Here is what we have got so far…