Crystal Text Effect

Cool crystal text and buttons with variations. After going through this tutorial you will be able to get such effects with ease :

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1. Go to File > New to create a new Adobe Photoshop Document (CTRL+N)

2. Grab the Text Tool in Horizontal Type from the Tool Box Window and write the text of your choice on the layer we just created . Try using a casual font. Do not go for very formal or sharp fonts to get good effects. At this stage your document should look like this:

3. Now select the Blending option of the text layer we just created by right clicking the layer in the layer window.

4. Set following values in the Blending options for the layer.

Drop Shadow : Color - #000000

Inner Shadow:

Inner Glow: Color - #000000

Bevel and Emboss : Color - #FFFFFF for both Highlight mode and Shadow mode.

Color Overlay : Color - #FFFFFF and put values as shown in the image below.

You are done with the tutorial. Save the Image in your preferred format

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