For the Outer glow, I'm using the lighter of the two gradients. Just get in there with the blending modes and spend some time. You have the option of using a gradient for many of these effects so here we're just using them to create a nice gold text inline with our theme.
Even a slight and tight inner glow wouldn't hurt.
This is perhaps the most important one; the gradient overlay. Keep making adjustments until you are happy or just use mine.
In the layers palette you can turn on and off each of the layer effects individually or all at once. The outer glow turned out to be way brighter than anticipated so double click on it to bring up the editing dialog box and lower the settings.
Remember that you can drag effects by using 'Thing' to the bottom of another layer as shown for an exact duplicate.
I had a gradient background layer on earlier (this is the one tutorial that needed a good re-working b/c I wasn't satisfied). Here I have created a new background layer and hid the original in the layers palette to show the invisibleness that is going to be swiped with the dark sand gradient right now. Because of the location in the layers palette, that is where it will be in carbon freeze.
Add some additional episode text. If it is too light you can change the color when it is selected in the text editing field from the color chooser and alt backspace.
That's all there is to it. Here's two different
versions (gotta love the visualness of PSD.NET). The black text is a
little more legible and has a stroke of 1 white on 'outside'.
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