Ghostly Concept Text Effect in Photoshop

Published: May 20, 2008 Category: Text Effects Comments: One Subscribe to RSS Feed

A photoshop tutorial on how to create ghostly concept text effect.

Start by creating a new document in Photoshop. Leave all the default settings except for the canvas dimensions, use 700×400 pixels with a white background.

Select your Horizontal Type Tool, above your screen under the options palette set the font family to Bauhaus 93, 100 pt, crisp and #61C5FF color shade. In a new text layer type your text.

Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add an Inner Shadow and Gradient Overlay blending options to your blue text layer.

Go to Select > Load Selection to add a marquee selection around your text. Now go to back to Select > Modify > Contract by 4 pixels. Then create a new layer and fill the contracted selection with black color shade.

Cut the bottom half of your black rounded rectangle. Then under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add a Gradient Overlay blending option and set the layer’s blending mode to Lighten.

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EffiduadS - September 28th at 3:33 pm:

nice work, guy

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