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Glossy Glass Text


With all of the great things you can do with Photoshop, I am loving this one. I actually stumbled upon this by accident while playing around with settings, which is why I always encourage experimenting. You never know what you will find.

I will start this tutorial by creating a file with the dimensions 512 X242. We need to have some sort of background so I will make a simple gradient. I used a light shade of gray (hex#CCCCCC) for the foreground tile and a yellow (hex#FFFF66) for the background tile and pulled from bottom to top for the gradient. Feel free to use whatever colors you like, as just about any will look good.

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Next we will need some text. Heavy bold fonts work best here. I chose the font "Elegance" with a font size of 200 pt.

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Use the following settings for Blending Options, Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Outer Glow and Bevel and Emboss.

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With any luck at all you will end up with something that looks like this.

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One of the cool things about this layer style is that it will take on the colors of whatever background you are using. A perfect example of this is to simply remove the background and you get this. Have fun!

Glossy Glass Text Tutorial: Final Result



Author's URL: Show and Tell-Graphics
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