Step 1
Creata a new document sized 1300px * 650px. Create a new layer called "floor" and select the lower portion of the canvas as shown below:
Right-click inside the selection and choose "Fill":
Select the following tile pattern from the "Pattern" category:
Drop the layer opacity to around 40%:
Then perspective the layer as shown below:
add the following layer mask to this floor layer:
and you will have the following effect:
Step 2
Use the font we donwloaded, type some text onto the canvas as shown below:
Apply the following Drop Shadow blending option to this text layer:
Now in order to make a smooth transition from the text layer to the floor layer, as the following layer mask to the text layer: (with Gradient Fill tool)
Now let's create the shadow for the text. Firstly load the selection of the text layer by Ctrl + Left-click the thumbnail image on the layer palette, then create a new layer called "shadow" under the text layer, maintain the selection and fill it with black colour, flip it vertically and use the free-transform tool to perspective as shown below:
Add the following layer mask to this shadow layer:
and you will have the following effect:
Step 3
Create a new layer on top of the text layer called "zebra texture". Load the text layer selection and right-click on it, choose "make work path" option:
Grab the Pattern Stamp Tool from the toolbox:
Choose the Zebra texture from the dropdown window:
Set tolerance to 2.0 pixels:
Choose the Pen Tool, then right-click on the path and choose "Stroke Path":
Stroke the path with Pattern Stamp we just chose:
and you will have the following effect:
Change the layer blending mode to be "overlay" for this zebra texture layer, you will have the following effect:
Step 4
Now create a new layer under the "shadow" layer called "back light". Grab the Lasso Tool with a 50px feather setting to draw a selection, then render some cloud inside it:
Hit Ctrl + L to bring up the Levels adjustment tool and apply the following settings:
Use the free transform tool to reduce the size of the cloud, position it behind the text:
Duplicate this light layer a few more times, put them around the text as shown below: (reduce their layer opacity to around 20-30%)
Add the following two adjustment layers to the top of all previous layers:
Curves
Levels
and you will have the following effect:
Go back to the text layer, change the text colour to be black, and you will have the following effect:
Step 5
Now we're almost done. Flatten the image and duplicate the background layer once, apply the following Reduce Noise filter settings to the duplicated layer: (we don't want this text effect to be sharp)
I decided to add a line a smaller text in the far distant to make a transition effect for the main text. So I duplicate the background layer again, and apply the following Motion blur filter to the duplicated layer:
Then resize this layer to a smaller scale, then move it up to the position as shown below:
Add the following layer mask to this layer: (use Gradient Tool)
Then reduce the layer opacity to around 30%, you will have the following effect: (a barely visible, samll text in the far distance)
I added the following two image adjustment layers for final touchups:
Curves
Color Balance
Mask on Colour Balance layer: (for adding image depth)
and here is the final effect I have for this tutorial:
Alternative Version (with more red colour + a bit of Motion Blur in it)
That's for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it ueful. If you have any qsuestion, just drop me a comment below. Have a nice day!
