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Melted Text Effect

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Result:

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1. Create a new file in Adobe Photoshop. I used size of 800*600 (you can use your monitor resolution size to create a new wallpaper) with black background.

2. Type any text you want. I took Arial Black (Regular) font, my size is 170 pt.

3. Merge layers by pressing Ctrl+E.

4. Duplicate layer. Right click on the layer and choose Duplicate Layer

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5. Now we have two layers: "Background" and "Background copy". Make "Background copy" invisible for now by pressing on the eye icon.

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6. Choose "Background" layer and rotate it clockwise for 90 degrees. Image-Rotate Canvas-90 CW.

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7. Apply some wind effect: Filter-Stylize-Wind with such settings:

Method: Wind, Direction: From the left.

Repeat wind effect two more times by pressing Ctrl+F two times.

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8. Blur your picture a little bit: Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blur.

Radius: 2 pixels.

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9. Image-Rotate Canvas-90 CCW.

10. Filter-Stylize-Solarize.

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11. Ctrl+Shift+L.

12. You should get something like that:

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13. Hide this layer by pressing on the eye icon. Then choose "Background copy" and make it visible by pressing on the eye icon.

14. Image-Rotate Canvas-90 CW.

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15. Apply wind effect. Filter-Stylize-Wind

Method: Wind, Direction: From the right.

Press Ctrl+F one more time.

16. Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blur.

Radius: 2 pixels.

17. Image-Rotate Canvas-90 CCW.

18. Filter-Artistic-Plastic Wrap

14-15-8

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19. Take "Magic wand", hold Shift and choose all letters one-by-one, selecting their white parts.

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20. Then go to Filter-Sketch-Bas Relief

Detail: 15, Smoothness: 2, light Bottom.

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21. Invert Ctrl+I

22. Go to Filter-Sketch-Chrome

Detail: 10, Smoothness: 10.

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23. Invert once again Ctrl+I

24. Deselect Ctrl+D

25. Filter-Stylize-Solarize.

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26. Auto levels Ctrl+Shift+L

27. You should get something like that:

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28. Change Blending mode to Lighten.

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29. Let's add some color. Press Ctrl+U and choose any color you want. Don't forget to check colorize box I took Hue 27, Saturation 43, Lightness 0.

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30. Click on the "Background" layer, and make it visible by pressing on the eye icon.

31. Colorize this layer as well: Ctrl+U, check Colorize. I took Hue 27, Saturation 30, Lightness 0.

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32. That's about it! Congratulations! Here is my final result:

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