Design Easy Arctic Cool Text effect

»Posted by on Dec 2, 2009 in Photoshop Tutorials | 0 comments

Design Easy Arctic Cool Text effect

Today, we will make this super glossy, extra cool and truly icy text effect… This tutorial requires no skills or experience with Photoshop, all you need to do it set a particular style settings. For a start, make a new canvas, 500*300, and fill it with .. Select a typing tool and write a word inside. Be sure to use a thick font, we used one of the default Windows fonts called “Impact”. Now go to Layer >> Layer Style >> Blending options, and apply the settings… For the shadow colour, use #1b6baf For inner glow, use #ffffbe Gradient between #80d3fe and #ffffff That’s it! Ain’t the result...

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Embossed and Curved Metal Text Effect

»Posted by on Oct 28, 2009 in Photoshop Tutorials | 0 comments

Embossed and Curved Metal Text Effect

Start off by making a new canvas, 550*200px. Fill it with #2E5164 (grayish-blue) Select the typing tool and type any word inside. The color does not matter. We worked with white letters, using customized MicrogrammaDBolExt font. Go to layer >> layer styles >> Options and apply the following settings for Pay attention and set the overlay settings to only 50% as you really won’t need more for this effect. The Bevel and Emboss is pretty much what makes this text effect worth seen, we are trying to create the effect of metal and clever embossing is our key here. Don’t be afraid to slightly overdo this effect, because at worse, it will look like rough metal and not smoothly polished like ours. Use one of the default...

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Surreal Fantasy Art Photoshop Photomanipulation Tutorial

»Posted by on Oct 4, 2009 in Photoshop Tutorials | 3 comments

Surreal Fantasy Art Photoshop Photomanipulation Tutorial

Ok, this is the image we will be eventually making: It’s a very easy fantasy art doodle, or rather just manipulation using some basic techniques yet achieving interesting effect. 1. Make a new canvas, 500*500. 2. Get a nice picture of ocean with foam at the shore. We used this one: 3. The most interesting effect is achieved when a picture was taken at angle, but we will create this effect artificially, by pasting the ocean photo unto our canvas and pressing Ctrl + T to rotate it a little, as shown on the photo below: 4. Next, take a photo of a girl, we use Becca from deviantArt, but you might want to use your own photo. Copy the canvas. 5. Paste the girl unto the ocean layer and then press Ctrl + T to rotate the layer with...

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Photoshop Tutorial – Christmas Fairy Magic – Fantasy Art

»Posted by on Aug 18, 2009 in Photoshop Tutorials | 11 comments

Photoshop Tutorial – Christmas Fairy Magic – Fantasy Art

This tutorial was originally published on loreleiweb.com and moved for technical reasons. After the huge success of the previous two fantasy art tutorials, i wanted to do something like that again, but different… hope you will like this one, feedback is as usually appreciated! So, today we will make this: Start off by making a new canvas, 500*500 pixels. The color is irrelevant as we will overlay it with a photo later. Fish out a photo of clouds from somewhere. I used some free stock on DA, but since YOU will probably make a picture for private use, you can use almost any photo u find. We are still gathering material. Next step is to find a nice girl we will turn to a fairy… As always I used liam-stock.deviantart.com but...

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Photoshop Tutorial – Ancient Rough Gold Effect, Perfect for Game Logos and Text

»Posted by on Aug 17, 2009 in Photoshop Tutorials | 7 comments

Photoshop Tutorial – Ancient Rough Gold Effect, Perfect for Game Logos and Text

This tutorial was originally posted on loreleiweb.com and moved for technical reasons. Ok, yesterday I posted that old gold pic I made and Dale asked for a tutorial so here we go… in case you forgot what am I talking about, we are going to make this text effect: So… Make a new canvas, and fill it with black color (#000000). Please note that this tutorial will only good against dark, ideally – black background. We leave a dark border around the text, which is invisible to you now, though if we take a lighter hue for the bg, you will notice that the effect looks different, a lot less interesting. Next, type a word on your canvas. Make sure you use a very bold font. We used ‘Yikes!’ for this tutorial. Go to...

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Design Glowy-Pixels Text Effect in Photoshop

»Posted by on Jul 21, 2009 in Photoshop Tutorials | 8 comments

Design Glowy-Pixels Text Effect in Photoshop

You might have similar effects on the web as such effects becoming very trendy recently. Doubtlessly you didn’t know how these designs are done, do they use patterns? Textures? How many layers do they work with? No need to guess and wonder, because now you are going to: Make a new canvas, we used here #373d40 for backgrounds. Using white color as your primarily color, and Baskerville Old font, type the word you want to render… Once you are done, duplicate the layer and make it temporarily invisible (click on the eye in layers panel). Get back to the second layer copy, which you have on visible mode and go to Layer >> Layer Style >> Blending Options Apply the following settings for Inner Shadow, Outer Glow, Satin...

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Elegant Glass Text Effects and Styles

»Posted by on Jul 11, 2009 in Design, Photoshop Resources | 15 comments

Elegant Glass Text Effects and Styles

8 Transparent Layer Styles & 3 Elegant Glass Text effects created by using them in combination. Works great for Icons and Buttons too! INCLUDES : .asl file with 8 transparent styles. .psd (800px * 150px) file with the 8 transparent styles for easy copy and paste. .psd file with editable text (800px * 1400px) with the 8 transparent styles layered to create the glassy text effects depicted. FONTS USED : Georgia, Tahoma, Snell Roundhand But these styles look great on a wide variety of fonts. Down;load these styles for only $2, sold exclusively through graphics river. German: 8 Transparente Layer Styles & 3 Elegant Glas Text Effekte mit ihnen in Verbindung. Werke für große Icons und Buttons zu! UMFASST: . ASL-Datei mit 8 transparent...

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