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Alien Jello Text


Part one - the text effect:

Open a new document in photoshop with a size of 720x480 and make the background black. Type in your text and make it white for now. Name the new text layer "alien text" in the layers palette, .

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Click the layer styles button at the bottom of the layer palette and apply a bevel to the alien text layer with these settings.

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Next, keep the layers style window open and apply the gradient overlay.

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Click the gradient color bar and assign an eerie green to black gradient.

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Next, add an outer glow with these settings.

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For the reflection, in the layers palette duplicate the alien text layer and go to edit>transform>flip vertical to flip the copy. Line up the alien text copy right beneath the original to set it up for the reflection.

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Select the gradient tool. In the layers palette, on the alien text copy, click the layer mask thumbnail once then ctrl +click the text thumbnail next to it to create a selection.

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Drag the gradient tool from the bottom to the top of the selection but only go about 3/4 of the way up. Then hit ctrl +d to deselect the selection. Lower the opacity of the alien text copy to about 80%.

Alien Jello Text



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