DirectoryMix Alien-Entity Text Effect

1. Background

First thing's first, create a new document in which you can make your text, use a size of about 400 x 200 pixels.

Now make a background that will suit the theme. I started the background by first making a few white gradients on a black background.

Now, apply Filter > Distort > Wave with a random setting.

Create a new layer and fill it with #47711f, change the layer mode for this layer to Color and lower the opacity to 80%.

Merge the background layers together then duplicate the remaining layer, now apply Filter > Distort > Wave with another random setting, change the layer mode to Overlay and lower the opacity to about 80%.

Now, lastly for the background layer, I added in some blood splat brushes and changed the layer mode to Soft Light.

You can download the Blood Splat Brushes I used from here. Note that I did not make these brushes, I found them on deviantART, if you know who made them please let me know.

This is what I got after I brushed some blood splats into my document:

Pretty cool huh?

2. Write Out Your Text

Change your foreground color to a darkish green color, then write out your text.

The font I used above is called Bebas, the font size is 72 pt, and the color is #3c5516.

3. Applying the Layer Styles

Right-click the text layer and go into the Blending Options, choose the following settings:

(This pattern comes with Photoshop)

Your text should now look something like this:

Well at the moment it doesn't look all that brilliant, but after the additional filter effects, I think it looks much better!

Don't worry if it's not exact, it doesn't really matter.

4. Additional Filter Effects

Firstly, create a new layer then Apply the Image (Image > Apply Image...) this will have made everything visible in the new layer.

Now apply Filter > Distort > Wave with any settings. Change the layer mode for this distorted layer to Lighten and lower the opacity to about 35-50%.

Duplicate that distorted layer, then apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with any old amount, change the layer mode to Overlay and have the opacity at about 40-50%.

Looks pretty cool, don't you think?

You could finish this off by applying any of the cool filters, I especially like Filter > Noise > Add Noise.

Thanks for reading the tutorial, if you need help with a part of this tutorial, you can leave a comment and your email address, or you can try out the .psd file.